Professor Dr. Heather Klusaritz

Biography

Director of Community Health Services at Penn Medicine Center for Health Equity Advancement and Director of Community Engagement at Penn Center for Public Health, Heather Klusaritz is a faculty member in the Department of Family Medicine & Community Health at the University of Pennsylvania. Her work focuses on bridging the divide between academic health systems and the communities they serve, emphasizing the creation of mutually beneficial and sustained partnerships that center community voices. She employs community-based participatory qualitative methodologies to identify effective practices in health care and public health service delivery addressing community health needs. Her current research centers on health system design aimed at improving access to care for historically and contemporarily marginalized populations, with the goal of eliminating disparities in access and health outcomes.

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