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Health Disparities Symposium Presenters
NYU Langone’s Section for Health Equity was honored to host Mary T. Bassett, MD, MPH, as the keynote speaker for the 2020 Health Disparities Symposium, which was centered around the theme “Turning Research into Action.”
Keynote Address
With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary T. Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity. Dr. Bassett is currently the director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to joining the FXB Center, she served as New York City’s commissioner of health from 2014 to 2018. Dr. Bassett’s many awards and honors include the prestigious Frank A. Calderone Prize in Public Health, a Kenneth A. Forde Lifetime Achievement Award from Columbia University, and election to the National Academy of Medicine. She received her BA in history and science from Harvard University and her MD from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She served her medical residency at Harlem Hospital Center and has a master’s degree in public health from the University of Washington, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar.