This event is open to faculty, staff, students, and the public. It features speaker Michael Curry, Esq, President & CEO of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers, which represents 50 health centers, serving over one million patients out of 285 practice sites across the Commonwealth. Michael brings over 35 years of experience in civil rights advocacy, health reform and health equity. He is the Past President of the Boston Branch of the NAACP (2011-2016) and was appointed by the Massachusetts Senate to the legislatively created Health Equity Task Force, which he co-chaired, aimed at addressing the health disparities that were realized and magnified by COVID-19.
The lecture series honors E. Lorraine Baugh, a long-serving trustee and first chair of the Institute’s Board of Trustees who is now an Honorary Trustee. Established in 2012, the visiting faculty speaker series has an emphasis on health equity within the health professions. This program is made possible by the support of MGH Institute Honorary Trustee Carol M. Taylor and her husband, John H. Deknatel.