Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP, is the senior director of equity and social accountability and serves as acting chief diversity and inclusion officer. In her role, she leads the AAMC’s strategic action plan to foster environments in which everyone feels included, respected, and valued for their contributions so that medical schools and health systems can attract and advance a workforce to improve the health of all people.
As acting chief diversity and inclusion officer, Dr. Fair provides strategic vision and leadership for the AAMC’s efforts to promote a culture of excellence in academic medicine through improving access to opportunity, meaningful engagement, quality health care, and improved health outcomes for all communities.
Dr. Fair’s leadership extends to her role on the board of the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation (United Medical Center), and as chair of the Advisory Board of the Griffith Leadership Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is the former principal investigator for the AAMC/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement to strengthen the collaboration between academic medicine and public health.
A trained emergency medicine physician, Dr. Fair is an associate clinical professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine of The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GW SMHS). Prior to joining the AAMC, she served as a professional development mentor, clerkship director of emergency medicine, and the co-director of the Health Policy Track for GW SMHS. Dr. Fair completed her residency training and chief residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her medical and master of public health degrees from the University of Michigan and her bachelor of science from Stanford University.