Samuel P. Martin, III, MD Memorial Lecture with Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS

Co-sponsored with the Division of Internal Medicine and the National Clinician Scholars Program.

Speaker

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS

Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; C.N.H Long Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management; and Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center, Yale University

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS, is Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; C.N.H Long Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management; and Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center at Yale. Her research focuses on health and health care equity for marginalized populations with an emphasis on the social and structural drivers of health, the influence of healthcare systems on health disparities, and the advancement of community-academic partnered scholarship. Dr. Nunez-Smith served as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and chair of the governor’s ReOpen CT Advisory Group Community Committee. An elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, she attended Jefferson Medical College, residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and fellowship at the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.