PROGRAMS FOR FELLOWS AND JUNIOR FACULTY

THE COMMONWEALTH FUND/HARVARD UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP IN MINORITY HEALTH POLICY

ADMINISTRATION

Direction and administration of the program is provided by the Minority Faculty Development Program (MFDP) at Harvard Medical School (HMS).

MFDP was established in 1990 to serve as an umbrella organization for minority recruitment, development, and retention initiatives undertaken at HMS and affiliated hospitals.

Faculty

Overall supervision and direction of program development, implementation, and evaluation is provided by:

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MBA
Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership
Director of MFDP
Program Director of The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy

Faculty from the:

Harvard Medical School
Harvard School of Public Health
Harvard Kennedy School
Graduate School of Education
Harvard Business School and the
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

are involved in program development and implementation.

Harvard Coordinating Committee

Members coordinate CFHUF within the Harvard University community, contributing to program development, practicum supervision; professional mentoring, and annual selection of fellows.

Myron Allukian Jr., DDS, MPH, Associate Clinical Professor, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine; Oral Health Consultant, Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers

Robert Blendon, MBA, MPH, ScD, MA, Professor, Health Policy and Political Analysis, Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Kennedy School

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, Samuel O. Thier Professor of Medicine, Professor, Health Policy, Harvard Medical School; Director, Institute for Health Policy, Massachusetts General Hospital/Partners HealthCare System

Tom Delblanco, MD, Richard and Florence Koplow-James Tullis Professor, General Medicine and Primary Care, Harvard Medical School; Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Chester Douglass, PhD, DMD, Professor Emeritus, Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine

Arnold M. Epstein, MD, MA, John H. Foster Professor, Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management , Harvard School of Public Health; Professor, Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, Director, Division of Public Health Practice, Associate Dean for Public Health Practice, Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health

Joseph McCarthy, EdD, Senior Associate Dean & Director, Degree Programs, Harvard Kennedy School

Barbara J. McNeil, MD, PhD, Ridley Watts Professor, Health Care Policy, Head, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School; Professor, Radiology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Joseph P. Newhouse, PhD, John D. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Director, Interfaculty Initiative in Health Policy, faculties of Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, MD, Associate Dean for Diversity, Henry Pickering Walcott Professor of the Practice of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Peter Zimmerman, MPP, Lecturer in Public Policy, Senior Associate Dean for Strategic Program Development, Dean’s Offices, Harvard Kennedy School