Dr. Angela Diaz

Angela Diaz, MD, PhD, MPH, is Dean for Global Health, Social Justice, and Human Rights, the  Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Department of  Environmental Medicine and Public Health, and a Professor in the Department of Global Health  and Health Systems Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. After earning her  medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, she completed a  Master of Public Health from Harvard University and a PhD in Epidemiology from Columbia  University. 

For 35 years, Dr. Diaz served as the Director of the Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center, a  unique program that provides comprehensive, interdisciplinary, integrated primary care, sexual  and reproductive health, mental health, optical and legal services to young people. Under her  leadership, the Center has become one of the largest adolescent-specific health centers in the  U.S., serving more than 12,000 young people every year – all at no cost to patients. The Mount  Sinai Adolescent Health Center is a major training site in the field of adolescent health and  medicine, with research funded by NIH. 

Dr. Diaz is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), where she sits on its  governing council, is a member of the Committee for the Health and Medicine Division, and  chairs the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Academies of Sciences,  Engineering, and Medicine. Dr. Diaz has been a White House Fellow, a member of the Food and  Drug Administration Pediatric Advisory Committee, and a member of the Board of Directors of  the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. In 2003, Dr. Diaz chaired the  National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism for the Department of Health and  Human Services. In 2009, she was appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to the New York  City Commission for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning (LGBTQ) Runaway  and Homeless Youth Taskforce. 

Dr. Diaz is active in public policy and advocacy in the U.S. and has conducted many  international health projects in Asia, Central and South America, Europe, and Africa. She is a  frequent speaker at conferences throughout the country and around the world.