Biography of dr bill bassett
Biography of dr bill bassett
Biography of dr bill bassett md!
Mary T. Bassett
American public health researcher
For other people named Mary Bassett, see Mary Bassett (disambiguation).
Mary Travis Bassett is an American physician and public health researcher who was the 17th Health Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health, being appointed to the position by Governor Kathy Hochul on September 29, 2021, until December 31, 2022.[1][2] From 2014 to 2018, she was the commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Bassett is the Director of the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and the FXB Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.[3] She is also an associate professor of clinical epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.[4]
Early life and education
Bassett grew up in New York City and attended the Ethical Culture Fieldston School.[5] Her par