Lynn Black, MD, MPH

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Lynn Black, MD, MPH is on the clinical staff at Massachusetts General Hospital and on the faculty of Harvard Medical School. At MGH, she is a Physician Director for Network Development and Integration. She serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the International Medical and Surgical Response Team for the National Disaster Medical System. While Chair of the Board of Directors for Last Mile Health in Liberia, she helped lead the organization’s Ebola response while working with the Liberian government to bring healthcare to those in the most remote areas. Her international work has included projects involving disaster response, refugee health, access to care, maternal-child health, and gender-based violence in Africa, Haiti and Micronesia. She also serves on the Massachusetts General Hospital Ethics Committee and as an evaluator for asylum seekers with Physicians for Human Rights.