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Michelle Morse

Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, serves as the Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness and the first ever Chief Medical Officer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. 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 Co-Founder of EqualHealth and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. From September 2019 to January 2021, she served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy fellow in Washington, DC, and worked with the Ways and Means Committee, Majority Staff, in the U.S. House of Representatives.

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A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

Ruha Benjamin, Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse, Dorothy Roberts

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse
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