Christine Petrin, MD, MPH, is Board Chair and President of Doctors for America, a national organization mobilizing over 40,000 physicians across the United States to advocate for health equity and evidence-based policy. In this role, she leads efforts on gun violence prevention, Medicaid expansion, drug affordability, and the organization’s judicial advocacy efforts, including filing amicus briefs in Supreme Court cases on reproductive rights. She successfully led the organization in suing the Trump administration after it removed critical health information from the CDC website, forcing the administration to restore public access to these pages.

Dr. Petrin is a primary care physician at a Community Health Center in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City, where she also serves as faculty at Mount Sinai Hospital. She attended Barnard College, the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, and Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Residency at Georgetown University Hospital where she also served as Chief Resident. She is passionate about primary care, improving our public health infrastructure, and demanding equity and justice throughout the health care system. Across these roles, she brings together policy, practice, and purpose to create healthier communities nationwide.