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Steven Chen, MD

Chief Medical Officer
Alameda County Recipe4Health

Dr. Steven Chen is the Chief Medical Officer of Alameda County Recipe4Health, a nationally recognized “Food as Medicine” program embedded in safety net community health centers that prescribes regenerative and/or organic produce paired with health coaching to treat, prevent, and reverse chronic conditions and food/nutrition insecurity. By intentionally sourcing Food as Medicine from local and BIPOC regenerative/organic farms, Dr. Chen has created a health multiplier framework called H3E (Health Cubed Equity) that generates co-benefits to human health, economic health, climate/soil health, and racial/health equity. Recipe4Health (R4H) is one of California’s first Food as Medicine programs to successfully utilize Medi-Cal (Medicaid) to cover food and health coaching services.


Active in state and federal policy, Dr. Chen serves on California’s Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition Steering Committee, has given testimony to the U.S. Congressional House Rules Committee Roundtable on Food as Medicine, has helped craft California and federal legislation, and has advised other counties, states, health systems, health plans, and other countries on Food as Medicine implementation efforts. He serves in several advisory roles, including currently serving as the national co-chair for the Strategic Integration Group of the American Heart Association’s Health Care by Food Initiative. Dr. Chen was a former Board Member of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved and was involved in the early formation of the organization.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and Stanford School of Medicine, Dr. Chen is a board-certified family medicine physician proficient in Mandarin, Spanish, and some Taiwanese. He completed his family medicine residency training at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, his fellowship at the University of Arizona’s Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, leadership development through the California Health Care Foundation’s Leadership Program, acupuncture training through the UCLA-HMI Physicians’ Medical Acupuncture program, and advanced training in osteopathic manipulative medicine.

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