Mia Keeys, MA is the first director of health equity policy and advocacy
of the American Medical Association’s Center for Health Equity. She is
the former policy director of the Congressional Black Caucus Health
Braintrust and health policy advisor to Congresswoman Robin Kelly
(D-IL).Previously, Mia has also been a Kaiser Family Foundation Barbara
Jordan Health Policy Scholar; a Fellow for the City of Philadelphia in
the Deputy Mayor’s Office for Health and Opportunity; an HIV/AIDS
researcher in South Africa; and a U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Indonesia,
where she worked on education and public health initiatives on behalf of
youth and their families for three years. The National Minority Quality
Forum recognizes Mia as a 40 Under 40 Leader in Minority Health. The
National Academy of Medicine features Mia’s children’s book on health
equity—titled Cole Blue, Full of Valor—in their 2017 national exhibit,
“Visualizing Health Equity.” Her work on youth and the imagination is
featured in a TEDx Talk, titled “A Racial Imagination Quotient”. Mia
holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Psychology from Cheyney
University, and a Master of Arts degree in Medical Sociology from
Vanderbilt University, where she was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Health Policy Fellow through Meharry Medical College. She is currently a
doctoral student at The Milken Institute School of Public Health at The
George Washington University. Mia is also a creative non-fiction
writer, with training from the University of Oxford in the United
Kingdom. She is originally from Philadelphia, PA.
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