Marcella Nunez-Smith

CTL-E-6754 · Person · physician · contemporary

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Marcella Nunez-Smith is an internist at Yale School of Medicine and the founding director of its Equity Research and Innovation Center, where her research documents how structural inequities shape care and outcomes. In 2021 she chaired the White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force. She serves as associate dean for health equity research at Yale and has advised federal agencies on measuring equity in health care quality.

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Merged 2026-11-02 from the staged health pioneers packet (website/.build-work/scratch-v114/health/) under the GOV-006 founder gate opened 2026-11-02; the staged record is carried verbatim — no claim upgraded in transit (GOV-004). · Roles as staged: Physician — internist and health equity researcher (Yale School of Medicine) · Photo: Photo: National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, Photo credit: Marleen Van den Neste · Public domain · Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colter_Mitchell,_Spero_Manson,_Marcella_Nu%C3%B1ez-Smith,_and_Michael_H._Sayre_at_NIMHD_10th_Anniversary_Symposium_02.jpg) · staged for CultureTechLens Full per-asset record in this package's photo-records.json, keyed to CTL-E-6754. · Photo size note (as staged): Largest original available on Wikimedia Commons is 965x579; below the 1200px long-edge preference — used as-is, never upscaled.

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• Wikipedia, 'Marcella Nunez-Smith' — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcella_Nunez-Smith

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