Michelle Morse, MD, MPH
Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness (CHECW)
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH)

Dr. Michelle Morse is the inaugural Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Commissioner for the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness (CHECW) at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYCDOHMH) where she leads the agency’s work in bridging public health and health care to reduce health inequities, guiding CHECW’s place-based and cross-cutting health equity programs, and serving as a key liaison to clinicians and clinical leaders across New York City.

Dr. Morse 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 is a general internal medicine physician, part-time hospitalist at Kings County Hospital, Co-Founder of EqualHealth, and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Morse’s continued commitment to advancing healthequity and justice is informed by her experience in leadership roles as Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Partners In Heath, as a Soros Equality Fellow launching a global Campaign Against Racism and as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy fellow with the Ways and Means Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives

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OBJECTIVES:
At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:
• List groups that have suffered from racial health inequities.
• Describe the role the COVID-19 pandemic played in highlighting health inequities
• Differentiate race-based medicine from race-conscious medicine, encouraging the latter in their practice.

FACULTY DISCLOSURE
Dr. Morse has indicated that she has no relevant financial relationship with commercial interests.

PLANNING COMMITTEE DISCLOSURE
Drs. Saxena, Dr. Van Kirk, and Tolentino have indicated that they have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests.

TARGET AUDIENCE:
Healthcare Providers

ACCREDITATION:
The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education
for physicians.

CREDIT DESIGNATION:
The University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.