Torian Easterling, MD, MPH

Dr. Torian Easterling is a physician and public health leader, renowned for his equity and public health work. As an expert on racial inequalities rampant in the medical field, Dr. Easterling was appointed the first Chief Equity Officer for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. As First Deputy Commissioner and inaugural Chief Equity Officer, Dr. Easterling worked to align external and internal equity initiatives. He led the New York City equity response to the COVID-19 pandemic and ensured equitable distribution of vaccines to vulnerable populations and communities. Dr. Easterling recently served as the Senior Vice President for Population and Community Health and Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer for the One Brooklyn Health system where his leadership and vision was instrumental in the creation of the Office of Community Health and Health Equity. Currently, Dr. Easterling is a Senior Fellow for the Health and Opportunity Leadership Institute (HOLI) at CUNY’s Colin Powell School for Civic and Global Leadership and the Director for Young Doctors Project-NY. Dr. Easterling holds a Bachelor of Science from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, and a Master of Public Health (M.P.H) from Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai in New York. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, NY, and a General Preventive Medicine residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai in New York.