As chief community, opportunity, and engagement officer, Malika Fair, MD, MPH, FACEP, provides strategic vision and leadership for the AAMC’s efforts to promote a culture of excellence in academic medicine where a broad range of perspectives and experiences are valued and respected, and where students, faculty, and staff of all backgrounds can thrive and best serve all patients and communities. In this role, she leads the AAMC’s strategic efforts to support community-building, foster access to opportunities, and promote relationship-centered engagement for individuals from all backgrounds and experiences.
Since joining the AAMC in 2012, Dr. Fair has led strategic initiatives across academic medicine that advance health equity, social accountability, and community engagement. She has worked extensively with medical schools, academic health systems, and community collaborators to strengthen the collaboration between academic medicine and public health as the former principal investigator for the AAMC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cooperative agreement.
Dr. Fair’s leadership extends to her role on the Board of the Not-For-Profit Hospital Corporation (United Medical Center) and as immediate past chair of the Advisory Board of the Griffith Leadership Center at the University of Michigan School of Public Health Department of Health Management and Policy. In 2019, she was selected to serve on the Mayor’s Commission on Healthcare Systems Transformation for the District of Columbia and was also highlighted in the 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health by the National Minority Quality Forum.
Dr. Fair is a trained emergency medicine physician and an associate clinical professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine of The George Washington University. 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 The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Fair completed her residency training and chief residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She received her medical degree and master of public health degree from the University of Michigan and her bachelor of science from Stanford University.