#  Kamillah Wood, MD, MPH 

Clinical Specialist, Health Optimization, Google Health

 

 

 



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Dr. Kamillah Wood is Clinical Specialist, Health Optimization, Google Health. Previously, she served as Senior Vice President of Stewards of Affordable Housing for the Future, as Special Policy Advisor and White House Fellow to Secretary Anthony Foxx at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Medical Officer at the Children’s Health Fund. While affiliated with Children’s National Health System, Dr. Wood worked to provide comprehensive medical care to underserved children in the Anacostia region of Washington, DC. In addition to providing clinical services, she created an educational program for parents and families called the Legislative Educational Advocacy Program (LEAP), which helped to inform local community members about current policy issues, the legislative process and the importance of civic engagement. Prior to this position, she completed a fellowship in health policy and health disparities as a Mongan Commonwealth Fund Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy, where she also obtained a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard University School of Public Health. In addition to her fellowship training, Dr. Wood completed her pediatrics residency at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was selected to be a Chief Resident. In this leadership role, she helped to manage 137 residents within the program, while working on several hospital-wide committees to address issues from emergency preparedness to implementation of an inpatient electronic health record. During her residency training, Dr. Wood was also involved in several non-clinical activities, including helping to increase recruitment of minority applicants to the pediatric residency program, as the Co-President of the Multicultural Physicians Alliance. Furthermore, Dr. Wood conducted an after school teen group at a local homeless shelter using innovative tools to provide health education to this vulnerable population. Additional educational accomplishments include graduating Alpha Omega Alpha from George Washington University School of Medicine and Phi Beta Kappa from Howard University.



 

 

 





 

 

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