Health, Nutrition, and Food Security

Ian Lee Brown serves as Chief Community Health and Social Impact Officer for Duke University Health System, where he leads enterprise-wide strategies for community health, social impact, and cross-sector partnerships that advance care that is accessible, responsive, and grounded in community needs, population health, and whole-person care.

With more than two decades of leadership experience, Ian has held senior roles across academic medical centers, health systems, senior living, affordable housing, finance, and social-impact organizations. His career is grounded in early work in community health and development in the Washington, DC region, where he led community and political affairs, volunteer services, pastoral care, and nationally recognized violence-prevention initiatives.

At Duke Health, Ian has previously served as Chief Employee Experience Officer and Interim Associate Vice President for Community Health, overseeing employee experience, employee listening, change management, organizational culture, belonging, workforce well-being, professionalism, and workplace violence prevention, as well as community health assessments, community benefit portfolios, and multi-sector coalitions.

Ian holds a Doctor of Medical and Health Humanities and a Contemplative Professional Graduate Certificate from Drew University; a Master of Science in Applied Behavioral Science and Organizational Development and a Graduate Certificate in Senior Living and Healthcare from the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School; a Master of Liberal Studies from Lake Forest College; and completed his undergraduate education at Brooklyn College. He has additional training in Clinical Pastoral Education at St. Luke’s–Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. In recognition of his leadership and impact, Ian was named an Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Influential Leader in 2022 and a Distinguished Johns Hopkins University alumnus in 2025.

An immigrant from Jamaica, Ian brings a community-rooted, interdisciplinary approach to advancing equitable health outcomes.

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.