Active Projects

Integrating Social Needs Assessments & Community Health Worker Integration in Primary Care (Bronx)

Improving Access & Quality of Maternal and Child Health Services (Togo, West Africa)

Bio

Kevin Fiori MD, MPH, MSc is a general pediatrician, researcher and educator.  He is an Associate Professor in both the Division of Academic General Pediatrics and Department of Family and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He is the Vice Chair for Community Health & Engagement and inaugural Division Chief for the Division of Community and Population Health within the Department of Pediatrics, the Executive Director, Community Health Worker Institute at Montefiore and the Director-Social Determinants of Health at the Office of Community & Population Health, Montefiore Health System. His research aims to address health disparities in communities both in the Bronx and abroad.  

In 2002, he participated in the Master’s International Program combining graduate work at Boston University School of Public Health and Peace Corps service.  As a Peace Corps health specialist Volunteer in Togo, West Africa from 2003-2007, he collaborated on multiple community based health initiatives.  In 2004, he co-founded an international non-governmental organization, called Integrate Health (www.integratehealth.org), for which he currently serves as Senior Adviser and Director of its embedded research unit, the Community Health Systems Lab. Integrate Health works in collaboration with the Togolese Ministry of Health to improve access and quality of primary health care. He is primary investigator on multiple ongoing implementation research studies in Togo and the Bronx focused on improving health service delivery, especially integration of community health workers.  He was a Fellow in New York State’s Empire Clinical Research Investigator Program.  His domestic research focuses on integrating social needs screening and community health workers outreach in Bronx primary care centers.  

Dr. Fiori’s teaching activities focus on global health, clinical pediatrics, health service delivery, and social medicine.  He co-directs the Global Health Elective course for the Department of Pediatrics.  He is an advisory board member for the Global Health Center at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Fiori’s clinical activities are based in the South Bronx providing primary care to families at a Federally Qualified Health Center.  He provides mentorship to Pediatric residents in the Social Pediatrics Residency Program.

In 2016, Dr. Fiori joined the faculty in both the Departments of Pediatrics and Family and Social Medicine after completing residency training in Social Pediatrics and serving as Chief Resident at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.  He completed a MD at the University of Washington, MPH at Boston University School of Public Health, and MSc in Clinical Research Methods at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He holds a BS in Chemistry and a BA in Human Development from the University of California, San Diego.

Dr. Fiori was awarded the Ellen Griep Award for Excellence by University of Washington School of Medicine, the 2015 Chairman’s Award for Distinction in Research and 2015 Behavioral Science Award for Excellence from the Department of Family and Social Medicine. Dr. Fiori and Jennifer Schechter were awarded the 2016 Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service by the National Peace Corps Association.

NCBI bibliography: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/kevin.fiori.1/bibliography/public/

Fiori KP, Heller CG, Flattau A, Harris-Hollingsworth NR, Parsons A, Rinke ML, Chambers E, Hodgson S, Chodon T, Racine AD. Scaling-up social needs screening in practice: a retrospective, cross-sectional analysis of data from electronic health records from Bronx county, New York, USA. BMJ Open. 2021 Sep 29;11(9):e053633. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053633. PubMed PMID: 34588265; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC8483051.

Fiori KP, Lauria ME, Singer AW, Jones HE, Belli HM, Aylward PT, Agoro S, Gbeleou S, Sowu E, Grunitzky-Bekele M, Singham Goodwin A, Morrison M, Ekouevi DK, Hirschhorn LR. An Integrated Primary Care Initiative for Child Health in Northern Togo. Pediatrics. 2021 Sep;148(3). doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-035493. PubMed PMID: 34452981.

Fiori KP, Heller CG, Rehm CD, Parsons A, Flattau A, Braganza S, Lue K, Lauria M, Racine A. Unmet Social Needs and No-Show Visits in Primary Care in a US Northeastern Urban Health System, 2018-2019. Am J Public Health. 2020 Jul;110(S2):S242-S250. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.305717. PubMed PMID: 32663075; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7362703.

Fiori KP, Belli HM, Lauria ME, Hirschhorn LR, Schechter J, Hansman E, Rajshekhar N, Katin V, Gbeleou S, Grunitsky-Bekele M, Pitche VP. Implementing an integrated community based health systems strengthening approach to improve HIV survival in Northern Togo. AIDS Care. 2020 Jun;32(6):705-713. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2019.1626342. Epub 2019 Jun 6. PubMed PMID: 31170827; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7357197.

Fiori KP, Rehm CD, Sanderson D, Braganza S, Parsons A, Chodon T, Whiskey R, Bernard P, Rinke ML. Integrating Social Needs Screening and Community Health Workers in Primary Care: The Community Linkage to Care Program. Clin Pediatr (Phila). 2020 Jun;59(6):547-556. doi: 10.1177/0009922820908589. Epub 2020 Mar 5. PubMed PMID: 32131620; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7357198.