Marcella Nunez-Smith
Marcella Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine. She studies health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized communities. She is one of three co-chairs of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board.
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Marcella Nunez-Smith is an associate professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine. She is one of three co-chairs of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board. She studies health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized communities. She has established the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network to study early risk and protective factors for cancer, heart disease, and diabetes in the eastern Caribbean.
She also developed a tool to assess patient reported experiences of discrimination in healthcare. Her research is funded by the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. She was named Associate Dean for Health Equity Research at Yale in August 2020.
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