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Alan Melnick, M.D., M.P.H. Alan Melnick, M.D., M.P.H., is the Director of the Joint Residency in Family Medicine/Public Health & General Preventive Medicine at Oregon Health & Science University and the Health Officer for Clackamas County, Oregon. From 1981 to 1989, Dr. Melnick provided primary care at the Multnomah County Health Department in Portland, Oregon. Since 1989, Dr. Melnick has served as Health Officer for the Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Health District in Washington (1989-1991), Washington County, Oregon (1990-1996) and currently, Clackamas County, Oregon (1996-present). From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Melnick also served as the Medical Director for the Clackamas County Community-Migrant Health Center. Over the past ten years, Dr. Melnick has had several health policy roles. Since 1991, he has served on the Executive Committee of the Oregon Conference of Local Health Officials, presently as Vice-Chair. Dr. Melnick is past Chair of the Oregon Governor’s Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs and a member of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Information Technology Committee. Dr. Melnick is a year-three (1993-94) Scholar in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored National Public Health Leadership Institute and in 2000-2001 served as Chair of its alumni association, the Public Health Leadership Society. He is a 1999 Fellow of the U.S. Public Health Service Primary Care Policy Fellowship. Dr. Melnick is interested in innovative approaches to community health assessment and improvement. As Clackamas County Health Officer, he participated in a NACCHO pilot project to test new community health assessment software, APEXPH98. In addition, he helped develop a prototype of an APEX-compatible Geographic Information Systems (GIS) application for community health assessment, and using a Northwest Health Foundation grant, recently developed an internet-based public health GIS application in Clackamas County. Relevant publications include a textbook, “Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Public Health,” published in March of 2002 by Jones and Bartlett as well as articles and a book chapter related to public health uses of GIS. Dr. Melnick recently received NIH (NICHD – National Institute of Child Health and Human Development) funding for a study of the effectiveness of an innovative method of increasing access to contraceptives as well as Northwest Health Foundation funding for a study of the effectiveness of a disease self-management program for homebound elderly with arthritis. Internationally, since June 2000, Dr. Melnick has served as a member of the American International Health Alliance (AIHA) healthcare partnership between the Narimonav Health District in Baku, Azerbaijan and the Oregon Health & Science University Department of Family Medicine. Beginning in October 2000, Dr. Melnick became a member of the Caucuses Region Steering Committee for the Development of Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines, and since December 2001 has been a member of the Region-Wide Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines Advisory Committee, both sponsored by the American International Health Alliance. In these roles, Dr. Melnick has conducted workshops and presentations in developing evidence-based clinical practice guidelines and primary care quality improvement projects in Tbilisi, Georgia, Moscow, Russia and Kiev, Ukraine. Dr. Melnick is Board Certified in two specialties: Family Medicine and Public Health & General Preventive Medicine.

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