Dr. Aletha Maybank

Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, joined the AMA in April 2019 as their inaugural chief health equity officer and group vice president. Her role is to embed health equity in all the work of the AMA and to launch and grow a Health Equity Center. Prior to this in 2014, Dr. Maybank became an associate commissioner, and later a deputy commissioner, and launched the Center for the Health Equity, a new division in the NYC
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene geared towards strengthening and amplifying the department’s work in ending health inequities. Under her leadership and in a short amount of time, the department made great strides in transforming the culture and public health practice by embedding health equity in the department’s work. This work has been recognized and adapted by other city agencies and has even captured the attention of the CDC and WHO.