Danny McCormick, MD, MPH

Danny McCormick is a primary care physician and Co-Director of the Center for Health Equity Education and Advocacy and Director of Research in the Department of Medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance and Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also a Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Fellowship Program in General Medicine and Primary Care. Dr. McCormick has been a medical educator and research mentor for over 20 years and has focused on teaching medical students and health care professionals about structural determinants of health and how to use research to support advocacy for equity in the US health care system. He is also a health services researcher and leads a research group with interests that focus on US health care financing, health care reform and access to and quality of care for marginalized patient populations, including the uninsured, racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, prisoners, veterans and patients receiving care in safety-net systems of care. Dr. McCormick is a past recipient of the A. Clifford Barger Award for excellence in mentoring at Harvard Medical School and the Academic Council Award for scholarship and teaching at the Cambridge Health Alliance. He also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellow at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC and as a staff member of United States Senate Committee on Health Education Labor and Pensions. He completed fellowship training in general internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School and received an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. He completed his residency training in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the Boston City Hospital.