Tribute to Excellence Journal 2023 - Flipbook - Page 15
Guest Speaker
MICHELLE MORSE, MD, MPH
Dr. Michelle Morse is the inaugural chief
medical officer and deputy commissioner for
the Center for Health Equity and Community
Wellness at the NYC Department of Health
and Mental Hygiene, where she leads the
agency’s work in bridging public health
and health care to reduce health inequities, guiding place-based
and cross-cutting health equity programs, and serving as a key
liaison to clinicians and clinical leaders across New York City.
Dr. Morse is an internal medicine and public health doctor
who works to achieve health equity through global solidarity,
social medicine and anti-racism education, and activism. She is
a general internal medicine physician, part-time hospitalist at
Kings County Hospital, co-founder of EqualHealth, and assistant
professor at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Morse’s continued commitment to advancing health equity
and justice is informed by her experience in leadership roles as
deputy chief medical officer of Partners In Heath, as a Soros
Equality Fellow launching a global Campaign Against Racism,
and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the
Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives.
