Alice Chen

Alice Chen is an American physician who is an assistant clinical professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She has previously been a Hauser Visiting Leader at Harvard Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership and assistant clinical professor position at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Chen was a founding member and former director of the nonprofit organization Doctors for America.

Early life and education Chen is from the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied biology at Yale University. When she arrived at Yale, Chen played violin and piano but she picked up several more extracurricular activities including Russian and Chinese calligraphy during the course of her undergraduate studies. For the following six months she helped to lead the largest service center in Manhattan. Chen was an internal medicine resident at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. After the election of Barack Obama, the doctors regrouped and renamed themselves Doctors for America. Chen became an advocate for engaging members of the academic community in policy issues. Doctors for America is a nonprofit which mobilizes physicians and medical students to improve the health of people in the United States. In this capacity she was at the forefront of policy changes, such as the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. She called for mass shootings to be treated as a public health issue.

In 2017, Chen was appointed a Hauser Leader at the Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government. She studied how public health policy changed in the post-Obama administration world.

In an interview with CBC News, Chen said that the social isolation "can spiral into depression or anxiety, and this can have serious ramifications on a person's physical and mental health". She was appointed to Kishan Putta's COVID-19 advisory board, which looked to advise the council member on how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life In 2015, Chen married Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States. They have a son and a daughter.