Dr. Cheryl Clark is a clinician, researcher and educator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Clark serves as Associate Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care. In this role, she oversees equity research and strategic partnerships to support health equity.  Dr. Clark is also Director of the Leadership for Health Equity Pathway (LHEP) in BWH’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. The LHEP develops physician leaders who create innovative strategies to confront social and structural disparities and achieve health equity in the US. She is also a practicing hospitalist.

Dr. Clark has dedicated her career to the connection between the social environment and disease risks, including topics such as safety in neighborhoods, and stressors due to a legacy of structural racism in the U.S. Dr. Clark’s research focuses on social determinants of health as explanatory factors for racial and ethnic disparities in cancer risk. Dr. Clark co-chaired the All of Us Research Program Social Determinants of Health Task Force. All of Us is an NIH initiative dedicated building a diverse database that can inform thousands of studies on a variety of health conditions

Dr. Clark completed undergraduate and medical school at Stanford University and her ScD at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.