Silas Buchanan is the Founder and CEO of Our Healthy Community. Silas is an experienced underserved-community engagement strategist, dedicated to building equitable partnerships and crafting web-based ecosystems that solve for known, outreach and engagement failure points. He launched OurHealthyCommunity.com in partnership with Morehouse School of Medicine, as a web-based platform to consistently connect trusted faith and community-based organizations with each other. Silas previously co-developed AMECHealth.org as the official health information-sharing channel for the AME Church, the largest mainline, historically Black Denomination in the world (2000 congregations/2 million members), and has informed the health equity strategy of various healthcare payer, provider, government, life science, pharmaceutical, and academic stakeholders across the United States.

Silas is a Global Advisor at Stanford University, School of Medicine’s MTRAM Program, and has contributed thought leadership to Burroughs Wellcome Fund, the National Academies of Medicine, Milken Institute FasterCures, Morehouse School of Medicine, HIMSS, Duke-Margolis Health Policy Center, Accenture, American Telemedicine Association, Digital Medicine Society (DiME), the Personalized Medicine Coalition, and the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator at Harvard Business School, among many others.