CUNY Institute for Health Equity (CIHE) Inaugural Speaker’s Series on:
Health Equity and Health Disparities


Joan Davis Nagel joined NCATS’ Division of Clinical Innovation (DCI) as Program Director in September 2014. She oversees several of the multimillion-dollar Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) and works collaboratively with principal investigators to provide programmatic direction and oversight of their clinical and translational science projects. Nagel also represents NCATS on DCI’s Workforce Development Domain Task Force Lead team, a committee of 60+ representatives from CTSA Program hubs that help to provide strategic direction on education and workforce issues that impact the clinical and translational science workforce.
Nagel earned a B.A. in biology from Williams College, an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her background includes training in obstetrics and gynecology, followed by a residency in general preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. Before assuming her current role, Nagel spent five years as a program director in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health, providing oversight for two large interdisciplinary women’s health research programs (Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health and the Specialized Centers of Research on Sex Differences) and worked collaboratively with researche
Dr. Nagel earned a B.A. in biology from Williams College, an M.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo and an M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her background includes training in obstetrics and gynecology, followed by a residency in general preventive medicine at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. In addition, Dr. Nagel worked as a city clinician for the New York City Department of Health Bureau of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and as a medical consultant for the Urban Women’s Retreat, a shelter for survivors of domestic violence in Harlem.