Founder
Dannie Ritchie, MD, MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor Family Medicine
Lead, Transcultural Community Health Initiative
Brown University Center for Primary Care and Prevention
401/359-3315
dannie_ritchie@brown.edu
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Biography: Dianne (Dannie) Catherine Ritchie, MD, MPH, a Family Physician, is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at Brown. She completed her Medical Degree at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. She completed her training in Family Medicine at the Residency Program of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein’s College of Medicine. She came to Brown to pursue Health Service Research and she completed her Master’s in Public Health at Brown in 2003.
Dr. Ritchie’s interest is in policies and social conditions that affect our health, our health care system and our well-being. Her work now involves working with Brown students, faculty and the diverse communities of Rhode Island at large to establish collaboration for greater community activity in health promotion. Through her work on the Transcultural Community Health Initiative (TCHI), initiated in 2003, she has created a Community Health Worker (CHW) program, based on nationally recognized core competencies. This program is designed to stand alone or comprise part of an entry level career path for diverse underrepresented communities.
The Relationship of Health Reform and Health Equity
CHI-RI Board
Rochelle Lee
Senior Partner
Bates and Hall Associates
Barbara Bowen
Adult Education Literacy Consultant
Dannie Ritche
Founder
Advisory
Ben Choiniere
Unite Rhode Island
Eugenia Marks
Retired Policy Audobon Society
Matt Ramirez
Social Enterprise Greenhouse
