Health, Nutrition, and Food Security

Ian Lee Brown is the Vice-President and Chief Employee Experience Officer at Duke University Health System and Interim Associate Vice President for Community Health. 

In his role, Brown leads the organization’s belonging and well-being initiatives. He ensures these elements are embedded within the system’s culture, so team members can thrive and deliver exceptional care to our all patients that come to us for hope, health and healing.

Prior to this role, Brown served in various senior-level roles in national healthcare, senior living and educational organizations, leading culture, diversity, talent, community outreach and operations. In these roles he had responsibility for leading over 1,200 employees and managing budgets in excess of $200 million.

Brown has served as a board member for numerous charitable organizations whose missions have included higher education, advocacy for the older adult population, including LGBTQ+ elders, youth, healthcare, affordable housing and hunger.

Brown completed undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College in New York City. He earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies at Chicago’s Lake Forest College and both a Master of Science in Applied Behavioral Science/Organizational Development and Graduate Certificate in Senior Housing and Healthcare from the Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School in Baltimore. At Hopkins, he also spent a year in the Mid-Atlantic Health Leadership Institute at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Introducing Kimberly Monroe, a servant leader with a profound commitment to engagement and improving access to vital services within the health care realm. With an extensive 25 year health care career, she has worked tirelessly as a liaison between the community and the health care system. She continues to champion the importance of spiritual support alongside medical care.

Ms. Monroe displays her heart for people and commitment to authentic community engagement by developing and cultivating bi-directional relationships with various community partners. Her “global citizen” background (Air Force Brat) has enabled her to serve her community through various organizations such as: Durham’s Partnership for Children, Partnership for a Healthy Durham, Durham County Women’s Commission, Homeless Services Advisory Committee, Durham Connects Advisory Board, the African American Community Collaborative and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Durham and Vicinity. Nationally, she serves on the Culture of Health Workgroup for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and participated in the National Academy of Medicine Culture of Health cohort meetings.

Before coming to Duke in 1997, she worked at UNC Physicians & Associates and Piedmont Health Services in Chapel Hill, NC. Ms. Monroe received a B.B.A in Finance from McMurry University in Abilene, Texas and a MPA with a focus in Health & Human Services Administration from UNC Chapel Hill. She is an ordained Elder at Victorious Life Fellowship Church in Durham, NC.

Scott is an active member and previous Co-Chair of the Partnership for a Healthy Durham Committee on Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Food Access. There, he helps build relationships across the Durham community to help achieve Durham’s health goals. Scott also currently serves on the City of Durham Human Relations Commission. Prior to joining OCH, Scott served as a program manager for the Duke Initiative for Science and Society, where he was responsible for developing and overseeing new student education programs for science and policy. Scott came to Duke from Baltimore in 2016 to receive a Master in Bioethics and Science Policy.

Darla Wohlfarth began working at the Office of Community Health in 2010. She manages the DUHS Summer Internship Program which is a collaboration between Duke University Health System, Made In Durham and Durham YouthWorks.  She manages the administration of the Charitable and Goodwill grants, and the web site design and content for the Office of Community Health, DUHS.  She attends numerous events and meetings throughout the community representing the OCH.  

Her previous professional experience includes working for the Gillings School of Global Public Health at UNC Chapel Hill coordinating events, Sun Trust Corporate In-House Advertising where she produced award winning radio spots, wrote and edited the corporate magazine, pamphlets and coordinated events, WJXT-TV 4, a CBS affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida where she wrote and produced television spots, and May (Macys) Corporation as an advertising copywriter.  

Ms. Wohlfarth received her B.A. in Journalism from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with a concentrated study in Public Relations and Advertising and completed a second major in Sociology.

Andrea Underwood Petifer is a Durham-based educator, author, and passionate advocate for community care in learning. She earned a B.A. and MSA from North Carolina Central University, and an M.Ed from Meredith College. Andrea was named Durham Public Schools’ Assistant Principal of the Year in 2018, served as an adjunct professor in NCCU’s School of Education, and is the Assistant Director of Education Outreach Programs at Duke Community Affairs. With over 20 years of experience, she’s held roles from classroom teacher and gifted‐education facilitator to administrator, even serving as president of the Durham Association of Educators. Andrea is a published author specializing in children’s literature—her debut, The Juneteenth Alphabet (Duopress), was released April 2025.