The Yale School of Medicine is the graduate medical school at Yale University,a private research university in New Haven,Connecticut. It was founded in 1810 as the Medical Institution of Yale College and formally opened in 1813.
David Aaron Kessler is an American pediatrician,attorney,author,and administrator serving as Chief Science Officer of the White House COVID-19 Response Team since 2021. Kessler was the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) from November 8,1990,to February 28,1997. He co-chaired the Biden-Harris transition’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021 and was the head of Operation Warp Speed,the U.S. government program to accelerate the development of COVID-19 vaccines and other treatments,from January to February 2021.
Alondra Nelson is an American academic,policy advisor,non-profit administrator,and writer. She is the Harold F. Linder chair and professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study,an independent research center in Princeton,New Jersey. From 2021 to 2023,Nelson was deputy assistant to President Joe Biden and principal deputy director for science and society of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP),where she performed the duties of the director from February to October 2022. She was the first African American and first woman of color to lead OSTP. Prior to her role in the Biden Administration,she served for four years as president and CEO of the Social Science Research Council,an independent,nonpartisan international nonprofit organization. Nelson was previously professor of sociology at Columbia University,where she served as the inaugural Dean of Social Science,as well as director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She began her academic career on the faculty of Yale University.
Vivek Hallegere Murthy is an American physician and a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who has served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States under Presidents Obama,Trump,and Biden. Murthy is the first surgeon general of Indian descent,and,during his first term as surgeon general,he was the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.
Michelle Ann Williams is a Jamaican-American epidemiologist,public health scientist,and educator who has served as the dean of the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health since 2016.
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist and physician. She is the 17th Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network. She is Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Lee Goldman,MD Endowed Professor of Medicine at University of California,San Francisco. She is a general internist and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital.
Ann Elizabeth Kurth,PhD,CNM,MPH,FAAN,FACNM is President of The New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM),a leading nonprofit organization focused on health equity;she is the first epidemiologist to lead NYAM in its 176-year history. Previously she was the dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor at Yale School of Nursing (YSN). She is a fellow of the National Academy of Medicine and was a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force. She is an expert in global health and HIV with work funded by the National Institutes of Health,Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation,CDC,and others,for studies in the US and internationally. Dr. Kurth has published ~250 peer-reviewed articles,chapters,and monographs. She currently co-chairs the National Academy of Medicine Board on Global Health,which includes a focus on health issues of national and global import.
Melissa Andrea Simon is an American clinical obstetrician/gynecologist and scientist whose research,teaching,clinical care and advocacy focus on health equity across the lifespan. Simon is founder and director of the Center for Health Equity Transformation (CHET) in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago,Illinois,and founder of the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative,a National Cancer Institute comprehensive cancer partnership led by the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University,Northeastern Illinois University,and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Simon holds the positions of the George H. Gardner,MD professor of clinical gynecology.,the vice-chair of clinical research in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,professor of preventive medicine and medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,and is a member of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Giselle Corbie-Smith is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. She serves as Director of the UNC Center for Health Equity Research and Associate Provost of the Institute of Rural Innovation. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018. Her research considers racial disparities in healthcare.
Valerie Ellen Stone is an American physician who is a professor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. She serves as Vice Chair for Diversity,Equity,and Inclusion,Department of Medicine,Brigham and Women's Hospital. She specializes in the management of HIV/AIDS,health disparities and improving the quality of medical education.
Jacquelyn Taylor is the Helen F. Petit Endowed Professor of Nursing at Columbia University School of Nursing (CUSON),where she is also the Founding Executive Director of the Center for Research on People of Color (CRPC). Dr. Taylor is also the Founding Executive Director of the Kathleen Hickey Endowed Lectureship on Cardiovascular Care,the first endowed lectureship honoring a nurse scientist at Columbia University. Additionally,Dr. Taylor holds an administrative role as Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Taylor has been a trailblazer in cardiovascular genomics research among minority populations,and diversity and inclusion efforts,having been the first black woman to earn tenure at CUSON,New York University School of Nursing,and the Yale School of Nursing. Dr. Taylor has been recognized for her contributions to the advancement of biomedical sciences,health care,and public health,having been elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2019. Dr. Taylor is committed to mentoring and advancing health equity as she received the Columbia University Irving Medical Center 2021 Mentor of the Year Award and the 2021 Friends of the National Institute of Nursing Research (FNINR) President’s Award for her significant work in race,culture,and disparities in healthcare. Dr. Taylor has been PI of many studies including,but not limited to,an R01 from National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR)- The Intergenerational Impact of Genetic and Psychological Factors on Blood Pressure (InterGEN),a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) award from President Obama in 2017,an MPI on a P20 from NINR on Precision Health in Diverse Populations in 2018,an MPI on an R25 on Research Opportunities in Cardiovascular Diseases for Minority Undergrad and Grad Students Across the Health Sciences (RECV) in 2020,an MPI of the TRANSFORM TL1 in 2021,and MPI on a NHLBI funded T32 on Postdoctoral Training in Atherosclerosis in 2022. In 2023,she was awarded grants as MPI on an NHLBI funded R01 on 'The Impact of a race-Based stress reduction intervention on well-being,inflammation,and DNA methylation on Older African American Women at Risk for Cardiometabolic Disease' (RiSE) and a NIMHD funded R01 'Identifying and reducing stigmatizing language in home healthcare' (ENGAGE),and MPI of a U54 from NICHD on NY-Community-Hospital-Academic Maternal Health Equity Partnerships (NY-CHAMP),and PI of it's training core. In addition to leading these grants,Dr. Taylor founded the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Yale School of Nursing and served as its inaugural Associate Dean of Diversity,and then went on to become the inaugural Endowed Chair of Health Equity and to develop and direct the Meyers Biological Laboratory at NYU before joining Columbia University.
Katrina Alison Armstrong is an American internist. She is the chief executive officer of the Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Dean of the Faculties of Health Sciences and the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. Armstrong is the first woman to lead Columbia's medical school and medical center. She was the first woman to hold the position of Physician-in-Chief at Massachusetts General Hospital and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2013 and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020.
Nancy J. Brown is an American physician-scientist. She is the Jean and David W. Wallace Dean and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine,having formerly served as the Hugh Jackson Morgan Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology,and Chair and Physician-in-Chief of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
C. Debra M. Furr-Holden is an American epidemiologist. She is the Dean of New York University’s School of Global Public Health.
Julie Morita is an American public health expert serving as the executive vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation,and a member of President Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board. Prior to her position,she served as Commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health.
The COVID-19 Advisory Board was announced in November 2020 by President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition. It was co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler,Marcella Nunez-Smith,and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts. The board was then succeeded by the White House COVID-19 Response Team upon Biden's presidency in January 2021.
Joneigh Khaldun is the Vice President and Chief Health Equity Officer at CVS Health. Prior to serving in this position,she served as the Chief Medical Executive for the State of Michigan and Chief Deputy Director for Health in the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. On February 10,2021,she was announced as a member of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force under the Biden-Harris administration.
Marcella Alsan is an infectious disease physician and an applied microeconomist studying health inequality. She is currently a professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and was previously an associate professor of medicine at Stanford University. She uses randomized evaluations and historical public health natural experiments to study how infectious disease,human capital,and economic outcomes interact. She has studied the effects of the Tuskegee Syphills Experiment on health care utilization and mortality among Black men. Alsan was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2021.
Karen Marie Winkfield is an American radiation oncologist,physician-scientist,and implementation scientist. She is the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Deidra C. Crews MD,ScM is an American nephrologist and epidemiologist. She is the Deputy Director of Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity and a Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Crews research focuses on social drivers of disparities in kidney disease and hypertension.
