Jennifer DeVoe, MD, DPhil

As a practicing family physician and doctorally‐trained health services researcher, Dr. Jennifer DeVoe studies access to preventive care for low-income populations. She leads a multidisciplinary team with expertise in informatics, sociology, epidemiology, biostatistics, economics, and anthropology. She has established a track record of developing community collaborations and using rich community electronic health record (EHR) data sources to conduct policy-relevant and practice-relevant studies. Research findings inform community, practice and policy interventions that will help to improve the delivery of care and to eliminate disparities.

Most recently, Dr. DeVoe was awarded a PCORI grant (2013-2016) for health systems research. The “IMPACCT Kids’ Care” project works to provide patients and those who care for them with evidence-based information needed to make better-informed health and health-care decisions. The study, which originated with community stakeholders, has the potential to greatly impact how clinics and families engage to improve children’s health insurance coverage and receipt of recommended care.

Since 2006, Dr. DeVoe has built collaborations with investigators at Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, the State of Oregon, and OCHIN, Inc. (a national collaboration of community health centers) to develop the OCHIN EHR database. Dr. DeVoe has led or supported over 20 studies at OCHIN since 2006, spanning across 200 clinic practice sites, with over $10 million in grant funding. In addition to being a health services researcher, Dr. DeVoe serves as the Executive Director of a practice-based research network of community health centers at OCHIN. She is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine at OHSU, where she sees patients at the Gabriel Park Family Medicine Clinic and precepts medical students and residents.

Areas of Research Keywords

Health Services Research, Access to Health Cre Services, Children's Health Insurance, Primary Care, Preventitive Health Care Services, Health Disparities, Health Literancy, Patient-Phsician Communication, Comparative Health Policy