Our mission is to increase the capacity for equitable and mutually beneficial partnerships with our neighbors: local, regional and national. We use participatory approaches to achieve this goal by:
- Integrating community voices in all our efforts
- Sharing resources and information about health and health care
- Identifying and supporting community strengths and assets
- Facilitating collaborative efforts to obtain internal and external funding
In addition, our office is committed to the following core values:
- Equity: We are committed to increasing equity in health and health care, and in creating and fostering partnerships wherein all parties share equally in these efforts
- Integrity: We conduct our practice with honesty and with uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values
- Trust: We build meaningful partnerships through honesty and reliability
- Inclusion and diversity: We welcome and value the experiences, opinions and contributions of individuals from diverse backgrounds
- Accessibility: We work to make information and resources about health and health care available and accessible to all
- Transparency: We operate and communicate with openness and accountability
- Sustainability: We support efforts to achieve environmental, community and financial sustainability
- Mobilization: We build capacity for action
- Transformation: We advocate for radical social and political changes that enhance health and well-being where we live, work and play
Executive Committee
Charles Carr | Vice President, Philadelphia Parent Child Center |
Imam Abdullah Dibba | Bait-ul-Aafiyat Mosque |
Stephan Evans | Senior Program Director, Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA, Columbia North Branch |
Alice Hausman | Professor Emerita, Temple University |
Darcy Walker Krause | Executive Director, Uplift Center for Grieving Children |
Philip McCallion | Director, School of Social Work |
Reverend Renee McKenzie | Vicar & Chaplain, Church of the Advocate |
Lianette Pappaterra | Community Programs Manager, Esperanza Health Center |
Jaclynn Ries | Director of Development, Veterans Multi-service Center |
Maryann Salib | Associate Medical Director of Community Health and Wellness |
Mark Salzer | Director, Temple University Collaborative on Communication Inclusion |
Linda Samost | Founder and Director, Sunday Suppers |
David Sarwer | Associate Dean for Research and Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education |
Tanya Sen | Community Nutrition Program Manager, Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger |
Brenda Shelton-Dunston | Executive Director, Black Women's Health Alliance |
Laura Siminoff | Dean College of Public Health |
Aviva Tevah | Director, Philadelphia Reentry Coalition |
Steering Committee
Sarah Bass | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Sarah.bauerle.bass@temple.edu |
Deborah Crabbe | Internal Medicine, Temple Health | Deborah.crabbe@tuhs.temple.edu |
Avrum Gillespie | Internal Medicine, Temple Health | Avrum.Gillespie@tuhs.temple.edu |
Lauri Fennell | Public Health and Social Sciences Librarian | lfennell@temple.edu |
Ilene Hollin | Health Services Administration and Policy | Ilene.hollin@temple.edu |
Roger Ideishi | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | Roger.ideishi@temple.edu |
Nora Jones | Center for Urban Bioethics | Nora.jones@temple.edu |
Sara Kovacs | Kinesiology | Sara.kovacs@temple.edu |
Rena Krakow | Communication Sciences and Disorders | Rena.krakow@temple.edu |
Omar Martinez | School of Social Work | Omar.martinez@temple.edu |
Pam Mason | Office of Clinical Practice and Field Education | Pamela.mason@temple.edu |
Anuradha Paranjape | Internal Medicine, Temple Health | Anuradha.paranjape@tuhs.temple.edu |
Beth Pfieffer | Health and Rehabilitation Sciences | bpfeiffer@temple.edu |
Nancy Rothman | Nursing | Nancy.rothman@temple.edu |
Abby Rudolph | Epidemiology and Biostatistics | Abby.rudolph@temple.edu |
Anne Russ | Kinesiology | Anne.russ@temple.edu |
Krista Schroeder | Nursing | Krista.schroeder@temple.edu |
Gina Tripicchio | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Gina.tripicchio@temple.edu |
Bryson Hoover-Hankerson | Temple Medicine | bryson@temple.edu |