Douglas Shenson, MD, MPH, MA, MS

Dr. Doug Shenson (he, him, his) is the Deputy Leader of the Health Equity Thread. He is an Associate Professor Adjunct, Internal Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and Associate Clinical Professor, Yale School of Public Health. Dr. Shenson is a graduate of the Residency Program in Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where he was a Chief Resident in the section of Internal Medicine.

Following residency, Dr. Shenson received a grant from the Social Science Research Council for Research on Persistent Urban Poverty. In 1992, Dr. Shenson was the lead medical advisor on the legal team that successfully advocated through the federal courts on behalf of HIV-infected Haitian asylum seekers held at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo, Cuba. He is a co-founder of the humanitarian organization, Doctors of the World USA (now HealthRight International), and founder of the Human Rights Clinic at Montefiore Medical Center, the first clinic in New York City to attend exclusively to the documentation and service needs of survivors of torture. He is a board member of the International Association for Indigenous Aging (IA2), which focuses on health issues of concern to elder American Indians. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Shenson has led projects funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to enhance and characterize the provision of preventive services to older Americans.

Dr. Shenson was co-leader of the Curriculum Sub-Committee whose recommendations led to the establishment of the Health Equity Thread. Since 2007, he has directed the Yale School of Medicine’s course “Populations & Methods: The Application of Epidemiology and Biostatistics to Public Health,” which runs over 12 months in the pre-clinical curriculum. Dr. Shenson is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Oxford University, Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and Harvard School of Public Health.