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Brian Smedley

Research Director, The Opportunity Agenda

Brian Smedley, Ph.D., is research director and a cofounder of The Opportunity Agenda, a communications, research, and advocacy organization whose mission is to build the national will to expand opportunity for all. Formerly, he was a senior program officer at the Institute of Medicine, where he served as study director for several reports on health and health care disparities and the need for greater diversity in the health professions. Smedley holds a Ph.D. in psychology from UCLA. He can be e-mailed at [email protected].