Tanesha Beckford, MD

Tanesha Beckford is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, and Emergency Medicine faculty at the Massachusetts General Brigham, Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She is currently a Presidential Scholar in Health Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and a member of the City of Boston’s youth civic engagement council at Spark Boston. She completed residency at Boston Medical Center (BMC), where she served as Chair of the Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Committee. She is the immediate past Chair- Elect of the EMRA Diversity & Inclusion Committee, and the co-founder of the Annual Health Justice Conference at her medical alma mater. Her research background includes shared decision making, professional advancement amongst diverse physicians, implementing violence prevention and intervention practices, and improving patient outcomes through equitable healthcare pathways. Her interests include mentorship, community outreach, social justice and creating inclusive spaces that amplify the voices of the underrepresented.