Judith L. Steinberg, MD, MPH, FACP

Judith Steinberg is a primary care internist and infectious disease specialist.  After practice and  clinical leadership roles at community health centers in Boston and primary care policy leadership as part of Massachusetts health care reform, she served as the Chief Medical Officer of the Bureau of Primary Health Care in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and as a Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Heath. She led the HHS Initiative to Strengthen Primary Health Care and the development, across 14 HHS agencies, of an HHS action plan to strengthen primary care.  

Dr. Steinberg is currently a faculty affiliate of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care, an associate with Integrated Primary Care Inc, and a board member of Primary Care for All Americans, One Heart Worldwide, and the Community Alliance for Guachipilincito, Honduras.

Dr. Steinberg was an associate professor of medicine, and family medicine and community health at UMass Medical School and an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. She was a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University fellow in minority health policy and received a master’s degree in public health from Harvard University. She was recently elected to the Invited Fellowship in the American College of Physicians.