Direction and administration of the program is provided by the Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP) at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

MFDP was established in 1990 to serve as an umbrella organization for minority recruitment, development, and retention initiatives undertaken at HMS and affiliated hospitals.

Overall supervision and direction of program development, implementation, and evaluation is provided by:

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA
Dean for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership; Professor of Medicine;
Director of MFDP; Program Director of The Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy at Harvard University


Program Staff:

Ying WANG
Director of Administration and Finance

Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership
Harvard Medical School
Tel: 617-432-2313
E-mail: ying_wang@hms.harvard.edu

Jackie WRIGHT
Program Coordinator
Fellowship/Scholar Programs

Tel: 617-432-2922
E-mail: jackie_wright@hms.harvard.edu

Thomas DICHTER
Program/Research Assistant
Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership

Tel: 617-432-2645
E-mail: thomas_dichter@hms.harvard.edu


Faculty Advisory Committee

Myron Allukian, DDS, MPH, Corresponding Member, Department of Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Vice President American Fluoridation Institute; Former Dental Director, Boston Public Health Commission

Monica Bharel, MD, MPH, Former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health; Senior Public Health Advisor, Advanced Clinical

JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Former Secretary, Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Sara Bleich, PhD, Vice Provost for Special Projects at Harvard University; Professor of Public Health Policy, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

O'Neil A. Britton, MD, Senior Vice President Operations, Associate Chief Operations Officer, Mass General Brigham; Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Alice Chen, MD, MPH, Chief Health Officer, Centene Corporation; Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Kevin Churchwell, MD, President and CEO, Boston Children’s Hospital; Robert and Dana Smith Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School

Chester Douglass, DMD, PhD, MPH, Professor Emeritus, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

William V. Giannobile, DMSc, DDS, Dean, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Donald A. Goldmann, MD, Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus, and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Joseph P. Gone, PhD, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University; Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Faculty Director, Harvard University Native American Program

Dora Hughes, MD, MPH, Acting Director, Center for Clinical Standards and Quality; Acting Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Lisa Iezonni, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Health Policy Research Center, Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital

Ichiro Kawachi, PhD, John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Chief Medical Officer, Press Ganey

Nicole Lurie, MD, MSPH, Director, CEPI-US (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations); Former Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response; Senior Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

Barbara McNeil, MD, PhD, Ridley Watts Professor and Chair, Department of Health Care Policy; Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Radiology and Practicing Radiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Joshua Metlay, MD, PhD, Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine; Peter L. Gross, MD, Chair in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joseph Newhouse, PhD, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Dean and Professor of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science

Valerie L. Ward, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Chief Equity and Inclusion Officer; Director, Sandra L. Fenwick Institute for Pediatric Health Equity and Inclusion; Director, Office of Health Equity and Inclusion, Boston Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School

David R. Williams, PhD, Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health; Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health; Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology, Harvard University

Jonathan Woodson, MD, President, Uniformed Services University