Michelle E. Morse, aka Michelle Evelyn Morse, is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an internist. Following a series of tweets in which she referred to Whites as “birthing people” and Blacks and Hispanics as “mothers,” the top health officer in New York City received a lot of backlash on Twitter.

In a series of tweets, Morse advocated for more products and services to be distributed to women of color. According to Morse, a disproportionate number of them died during or shortly after childbirth. 

She also pointed out that black and Puerto Rican mothers died at a significantly higher rate than white mothers during childbirth. To address this, Morse recommended on Twitter that minority populations have more access to doulas, a type of trained midwife, and other services. Morse drew controversy on social media after being accused of racial segregation of moms.

Who is Michelle E. Morse?

Morse grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a family of public school teachers. Morse graduated from the University of Virginia with a bachelor’s degree in French in 2003 and the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine with a medical degree in 2008. She went on to earn an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2012.

Morse spent six months each year as part of her residency training in the Partners in Health-supported Lascahobas hospital, where she discovered she had more formal training than all of her Haitian colleagues. As a result, she co-founded EqualHealth, a non-profit organization, in 2011.

The Campaign Against Racism (CAR), which Morse co-founded with Camara Jones, is one of the organizations with which she is working with EqualHealth. In 2018, the Soros Equality Fellowship awarded a $100,000 grant to support these activities. Morse then worked as the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Partners in Health (PiH) from 2012 to 2016, as well as the Director of Medical Education and Advisor to the Medical Director at Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais.

Morse worked to open and administer a 300-bed teaching hospital in Mirebalais, Haiti, in 2013, where he also launched the facility’s first three residency training programs. Morse took on the role of Assistant Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital after returning to North America and finishing her Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Morse co-founded Social Medicine Consortium with Michael Westerhaus while serving as Deputy CMO in 2015. She worked with the Ways and Means Committee, Majority Staff, in the United States House of Representatives from September 2019 to January 2021 as one of six professionals selected as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow. In February 2021, Morse became the first Chief Medical Officer of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, following Torian Easterly as the director of the Center for Health Equity and Community Wellness.

How old is Michelle E. Morse?

Michelle E. Morse is in his late30s. 

Who is Michelle E. Morse’s Husband?

However, we have no information about her husband, but from the sources, she has been married twice.

How Rich is Michelle E. Morse?

The estimated Net Worth of Michelle E. Morse is between $500K to $700K USD.

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