Events

Past Event

Anti-Racism Speaker Series

April 22, 2021
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
America/New_York
Columbia School of Nursing, 560 W. 168 St., New York, NY 10032

Due to unforeseen circumstances this Thursday’s (4/22) Anti-Racism Speaker Series talk will be postponed until the Fall. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith is committed and excited to give her talk, Reflections on 15 Years as a Health Equity Researcher. The Center for Research on People of Color will notify you when this event is rescheduled so you may attend. Thank you for your interest in the event and understanding.

Join the Center for Research on People of Color for our third Anti-Racism Speaker Series event held virtually on April 22nd, 2021, 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM.

This event will feature Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith who will present her talk titled "Reflections on 15 Years as a Health Equity Researcher".
Dr. Nunez-Smith is Associate Dean for Health Equity Research; Associate Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management; and Founding Director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC) in the Office for Health Equity Research at Yale School of Medicine.

ERIC’s research focuses on promoting health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized populations with an emphasis on centering community engagement, supporting healthcare workforce diversity and development, developing patient reported measurements of healthcare quality, and identifying regional strategies to reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Nunez-Smith currently serves as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force at the Department of Health and Human Services. Previously, she served as co-chair of the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board and community committee chair for the ReOpen Connecticut Advisory Group on behalf of Connecticut Governor Lamont. She is the principal investigator on several NIH and foundation-funded grants. Dr. Nunez-Smith is also Director of the Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement at the Yale Cancer Center; Chief Health Equity Officer at Smilow Cancer Hospital; Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Clinical Investigation; Core Faculty in the National Clinician Scholars Program; Director of the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership; and Co-Director of the Doris Duke Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr. Nunez-Smith is board certified in internal medicine, having completed residency training at Harvard University’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and fellowship at the Yale Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, where she also received a Masters in Health Sciences. Originally from the US Virgin Islands, she attended Jefferson Medical College, where she was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society; she earned a BA in Biological Anthropology and Psychology at Swarthmore College.

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