Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith Takes Aim at Racial Gaps in Health Care
Appointed head of the incoming administration’s task force on health equity, the Yale University scientist “is not sitting in her ivory tower.”
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith will run the Biden administration’s task force on health equity. “The Biden-Harris team has been really clear on saying that our response and recovery needs to be equitable,” she said.Credit.Yale University
Jan. 8, 2021
Growing up in the United States Virgin Islands, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith saw firsthand what can happen in a community with limited access to health care. Her father, Moleto “Bishop” Smith Sr., was only in his 40s when he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him partly paralyzed and with slurred speech.