Dr. Stella Safo, MD

Dr. Safo is Ghanaian-American board-certified HIV primary care physician, public health advocate, and the founder of Just Equity for Health, a health care improvement company that uses advocacy, education and care model design to ensure equitable care delivery across all sectors of medicine. Dr. Safo has experience in clinical transformation and health care redesign in academic and corporate healthcare settings, as Senior Medical Director and Chief Clinical Transformation officer, respectively. In addition to her commitment to population health and care model design, Dr. Safo is dedicated to equity within health care. She is a founding member of several organizations dedicated to gender and racial equity and to civic engagement in medicine.

Dr. Safo completed her undergraduate, medical and public health degrees from Harvard College, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Safo’s superpower is the combination of advocacy, strategy, and community-level organizing.

She resides in Brooklyn, NY and enjoys traveling and reading.