Marcella Nunez-Smith | |
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 Nuñez-Smith attends the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities 10th Anniversary Symposium in 2020 | |
| Chair of the COVID-19 Equity Task Force | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Co-Chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board | |
| In office November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021 Serving with David A. Kessler, Vivek Murthy | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands |
| Education | Swarthmore College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD) Yale University (MHS) |
Marcella Nunez-Smith is an American physician-scientist. She is C.N.H Long Professor of medicine and epidemiology at the Yale School of Medicine, where she serves as the inaugural Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and founding director of the Equity Research and Innovation Center. She also holds joint appointments at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Management. After co-chairing the Biden-Harris transition's COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, she was selected by President Joe Biden to serve as Senior Advisor to the White House COVID-19 Response Team and Chair of the Presidential COVID-19 Equity Task Force.