April 21, 2026 | 12:00 PM ET | Virtual
Topic: Introduction to the Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation and Policy: Health Center-Led Science
Speaker: Cheryl Clark, MD, ScD
Executive Director and Senior Vice President,
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers’ Institute for Health Equity Research, Evaluation & Policy;
Associate Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine & Primary Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
About Cheryl Clark: Dr. Clark is a physician of Hospital Medicine and a Social Epidemiologist with a research focus on social determinants of health and health care utilization in diverse populations, including a focus in areas of preventive care for cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention, implementation science and community-led science. Dr. Clark is nationally and internationally recognized for advancing the study of social determinants of health in epidemiologic research and addressing SDOHs in implementation science. Dr. Clark is PI of Engagement for the New England consortium of the NIH All of Us Research Program. She served as chair of the All of Us Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Task Force for survey development and led the design and implementation of the SDOH module that has been fielded to more than 200,000 participants across the US. She is the founding director of the Institute for Health Equity Research Evaluation & Policy, Inc., launched to support Health Center-led Science with community health centers state-wide in Massachusetts, including the National Cancer Institute’s Advancing Cancer Control Engagement Research through Transformative Solutions (ACCERT) U19 program, and the PCORI-funded Boston Hypertension Equity Alliance in Treatment: Comparing System-Based Approaches to Hypertension Control in the Safety-Net Setting. Dr. Clark is the inaugural recipient of the Harvard Medical School Equity, Social Justice, and Advocacy Award, and a recipient of the Women of Courage award from the National Council of Negro Women.