Lisa Cooper, MD
Dr. Lisa Cooper is the James F. Fries Professor of Medicine and Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Equity in Health and Health Care at the Johns Hopkins University Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. She is also the Founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity. An internal medicine physician and pioneering public health researcher, her work focuses on programs to improve doctor-patient communication, patient empowerment, and quality of primary care. Dr. Cooper collaborates locally, nationally, and globally with community and healthcare partners to implement rigorous clinical trials, identifying solutions that alleviate racial and income disparities in healthcare, translating them into best practices and concrete policy changes that benefit patients’ experiences and health outcomes. A 2007 MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Medicine, Dr. Cooper has served as an expert advisor for media and organizations including BBC, The Carter Center, PBS, National Urban League, NPR, and The New York Times. President Biden appointed her to the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, on which she served from 2021-2024. She is the author of Why Are Health Disparities Everyone’s Problem? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021).