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Dr. Aletha Maybank is a Deputy Commissioner in the NYC Dept of Health and Mental Hygiene and is Founding Director of the Center for Health Equity. She is a pediatrician Board Certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health with strong expertise and experience in health equity and social justice. She serves as Vice President of the Empire State Medical Association, the NYS affiliate of the National Medical Association.
Dr. Maybank is Co-Founder of the 'We are DocMcStuffins' Movement to encourage young girls of color to enter the field of medicine. She has served as a medical contributor on the MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry Show, Disney Jr.'s DocMcStuffins, Good Morning America, WABC Here and Now, ARISE News, BET-106 & Park, HuffPost Live, and Ebony.com to name a few. She has participated on several film projects: The Deadliest Disease in America by Crystal Emery, Soul Food Junkies by Byron Hurt, The Tale of Timmy Two Chins by Luis Hernandez, and Present and Unaccounted for: Black Women in Medicine. She has also been recognized with various awards from organizations such as The Network Journal 40 Under 40, NV Magazine’s Movers and Shakers 2010, the National Coalition of 100 Black Men, EMG Communications, and the Hip Hop Loves Foundation.
She holds a BA from Johns Hopkins University, MD from Temple University School of Medicine, and a MPH from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.