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Acting Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Michelle Morse, MD, MPH, is Acting Health Commissioner and Chief Medical Officer of the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC Health). She leads the agency’s work in bridging public health and health care to reduce health inequities and serves as a key liaison to clinicians and clinical leaders across New York City. She previously served as Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness, where she led health equity programs.
Michelle 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 practices as a general internal medicine physician and part-time hospitalist at Kings County Hospital. She is a co-founder of EqualHealth, an organization that aims to inspire the next generation of Haitian health care leaders, and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. Michelle’s 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 who launched a global Campaign Against Racism, and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow with the Ways and Means Committee in the US House of Representatives.
