Pamela Schwartz joined Kaiser Permanente in 2001 and serves as the Executive Director for Community
Health. In this position, Pam leads Food for Life, Kaiser Permanente’s comprehensive approach for
transforming the economic, social and policy environments so that people across the nation have
access to affordable healthy food. She also leads Kaiser Permanente’s national strategy to address
crucial social factors that affect people’s health, including housing, social isolation, digital divide, and
financial security. Previously, Pam led the execution of Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health
measurement, evaluation and learning and Community Health Needs Assessment strategies, ensuring
that Kaiser Permanente responds in the most impactful way to the needs of communities, deploying
organizational assets in partnership with community. Pam has advanced the community and social
health strategy to focus on identifying and responding to the social determinants of health, working
cross-functionally, and system-wide on a variety of content areas.