DEAN FOR GENDER EQUITY IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE; PROFESSOR | Population Health Science and Policy; PROFESSOR | Medicine, General Internal Medicine

Carol R. Horowitz, MD, MPH, is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and a practicing general internist. With a focus on using Community-Based Participatory Research to address health disparities, she is the Principal Investigator of several NIH funded community-based interventions. She co-founded the Center for Health Equity and Community-Engaged Research, and directs of the East Harlem Partnership for Diabetes Prevention, and the Community Engagement and Research Core for Mount Sinai’s Institutes for Clinical and Translational Sciences. She has implemented numerous community-based health improvement interventions, and mentors students, residents and faculty interested in addressing disparities and partnering with communities on research to improve local health and influence policy. She has an MD from Cornell University, and received an MPH from University of Washington as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Clinical Focus Internal Medicine Multi-Disciplinary Training Areas Clinical Research Education Program [CLR], Public Health [PH] Awards Partnership Award Lighthouse International Haas Fellowship Cornell University Medical College Independent Research Dean's Award Cornell University Merit in independent research Community Service Award Mount Sinai Medicine Excellence for Contributions US Department of Health and Human Services Diabetes Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society National Leadership Award Academy for the Public's Health Mayoral Award Ithaca, New York Outstanding Community Service