Mieka Smart, DrPH, MHS

Dr. Mieka Smart is a research associate professor at Tulane, working with P4HE as the deputy director of the Tulane Health Equity Institute and leading the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Equity Scholars for Action as program director. The majority of her research involves drug and alcohol policy evaluation. She currently has Michigan Policy Institute funding to evaluate police use-of-force policies in 83 cities and counties across Michigan. She was PI of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation funded "Going Upstream to Mitigate Microaggression" a continuing education workshop series for medical school faculty. She is MPI on Research to Reduce Disparities in Disease, an NHLBI R25 training medical students on clinical and public health research fundamentals. For five years she directed Leadership in Medicine for the Underserved (LMU), a destination program for medical students at Michigan State University. LMU focuses on leadership development for students who aspire to run organizations that serve marginalized populations. Dr. Smart earned her Bachelor of Arts in Public Health, Master of Health Science, and Doctor of Public Health degrees from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore Maryland.