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Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29, 2021, until December 31, 2022.
Mary T. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
New York City Public Health Commissioner Mary Bassett has been a health activist since her Radcliffe days of volunteering at a Black Panther Clinic. She began her career on the medical faculty at the University of Zimbabwe, a position she held for 17 years.
In Zimbabwe in the 1980s, Mary Bassett witnessed the AIDS epidemic firsthand, and she helped set up a clinic to treat and educate local people about the deadly virus. But looking back, she regrets not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world's political and economic organizations, inequities that ...
17 de fev. de 2022 · Having been involved in mental health initiatives in her previous role as health commissioner of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in 2014–18, she is keen to address the structural neglect of psychiatric disorders in her new role as health commissioner for the state.
Mary T Bassett: more justice, more equity, better health for all. Having spent, in her words, “a lifetime working at the intersection of health and social justice”, it seems like a natural choice for Mary Travis Bassett, former director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA ...
Mary T. Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University, as well as the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health. With more than 30 years of experience in public health, Dr. Mary Travis Bassett has dedicated her career to advancing health equity.
