Expert Profile
Steve Chambers
Special Projects Manager, Office of Public Health Preparedness
Kern County Department of Public Health; Past Chairman of the Central California Public Health Partnership
Expertise:
organization of health services
MediCal managed care for public health
health planning for rural communities
bioterrorism preparedness
West Nile virus planning
Biography
Steve Chambers holds a Bachelor of Science in health services administration and a Master of Science in administration-health care management from California State University, Bakersfield. He was the director of shared services for the Hospital Council of Central California. He has been an administrator at three small and rural acute-care hospitals. He was a management and marketing consultant to 13 hospitals in California for industrial and occupational medicine. He has taught organizational development at the University of LaVerne. For the past 14 years, he has been doing health planning for the Kern County Department of Public Health, which included developing managed care plans for MediCal, bioterrorism preparedness, West Nile virus and pandemic influenza plan development, and rural community strategic planning and needs assessment.
1800 Mount Vernon Avenue
Bakersfield California 93306
United StatesOffice Phone:
(661) 868-0389
Office Fax:
(661) 868-0201
