Brian D. Smedley is known for his work on

health equity Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Individuals who have consistently been deprived of these three determinants are significantly disadvantaged from health inequiti ...

. He is the co-founder and executive director of the National Collaborative for Health Equity. He was formerly the vice president and director of the

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, originally the Joint Center for Political Studies and also known in abbreviated form as Joint Center, is an American public policy think tank headquartered in Washington, DC. Founded in 1970 t ...

' Health Policy Institute from 2008 to 2014. Before that, he was the co-founder and research director of the communications, research, and policy organization the Opportunity Agenda. He has also been a senior program officer at the Division of Health Sciences Policy of the

Institute of Medicine The National Academy of Medicine (NAM), known as the Institute of Medicine (IoM) until 2015, is an American nonprofit, non-governmental organization. The National Academy of Medicine is a part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineerin ...

, and the Director for Public Interest Policy at the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

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