Dr. Aletha Maybank is the Chief Health Equity Officer, American Medical Association (AMA) since 2019.
She is a highly proficient executive physician with demonstrated excellence and leadership in public health, health equity, preventive medicine, health communications, and organizational change management to advance equity and racial justice.
Her unique expertise stems from launching several ‘start-up’ Centers and Offices within institutions to meet and exceed organizational commitments to embed equity and justice in all organizational policies and functions, moving beyond typical DEI efforts.
Throughout her career, she has served as an honest broker and convener of typically silo-ed sectors and organizations to ensure equitable conversations in planning and organizing for change and impact in well-being and health.
She has also served as Deputy Commissioner and Founding Director of the Center for the Health Equity. Neighborhood efforts under her purview strengthened through enhanced coordination in violence prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, birth equity, and faith-based initiatives.
Under her leadership, the Race to Justice Initiative launched to transform the culture and public health practice of the Health Department and embed health equity in all of the health department’s work was adopted by other institutions and recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization.
Dr. Maybank also successfully launched the Office of Minority Health as its Founding Director in the Suffolk County Department of Health Services in NY from 2006-2009.
She has taught medical and public health students on topics related to health inequities, public health leadership and management, physician advocacy, and community organizing in health. In 2012, she co-founded “We Are Doc McStuffins,” a movement created by Black women physicians who were inspired by the Disney Junior character Doc McStuffins.
In the media and on the lecture circuit, Dr. Maybank is highly sought after. As a highlight, she has appeared or been profiled on Disney Jr.’s highly successful Doc McStuffins Animated Series. She has also advised on film projects: Soul Food Junkies by Byron Hurt and Black Women in Medicine by Crystal Emery. For her accomplishments, she has received numerous awards over the years. Dr. Maybank has served on medical missions to Haiti.
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