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
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH, Senior Vice President, Equity and Community Health; Founder, Senior Advisor, and Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Co-Founder, Quality Interactions, Inc.
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, 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.
Currently on leave to serve in the Biden-Harris Administration
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 Medical Officer, Covered California; 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, Chief Medical Officer, CMS Innovation Center, 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, Interim Chair, Department of Medicine; 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
