Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS
Associate Dean for Health Equity Research and C.N.H. Long Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease) and of Public Health (Social And Behavioral Sciences) & Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Founding Director, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), Yale School of Medicine; Director, Center for Research Engagement (CRE); Director, Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity; Deputy Director for Health Equity Research and Workforce Development, Yale Center for Clinical Investigation (YCCI); Director, Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership
Dr. Nunez-Smith, Director of the Yale Equity Research Innovation Center, focuses her research on advancing the health equity agenda in the US and world-wide. In New Haven she addresses how environmental conditions impact the health of underserved and minority children and adults. As lead principal investigator of two NIH funded grants in the Caribbean, The Yale-TCC and the Pediatric Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort Study, she works directly with stakeholders in the Eastern Caribbean to address climate change resiliency. ECHORN has the largest adult cohort study in the region spanning the hurricanes of 2017, allowing examination of health effects of the hurricanes and factors associated with resiliency. She is also co-principal investigator on a pilot project funded by the Yale MacMillan Center to work with the Pan American Health Organization to address the morbidity and mortality due to chronic disease after natural disasters.