Dr. Brookshield Laurent's BIO

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Brookshield Laurent DO is a board-certified Osteopathic Family Medicine Physician. She is the Associate Dean of Population and Public Health, Associate Professor and founding director for the Delta Population Health Institute.

She joined NYIT- COM, Long Island Campus, in 2012 as a faculty member and led curriculum advancement in the patient centered clinical skills where learners achieve competencies in professionalism, interpersonal communication, cultural competency, clinical decision making.

Dr. Laurent was appointed as the founding Chair for the department of Clinical Medicine at the NYITCOM at Arkansas State University campus in Jonesboro, Arkansas in 2016. In this role, she led and trained faculty in multiple clinical specialties in their role as medical educators. Dr. Laurent has expanded the function of the clinical medicine department by creating partnership linkages between academia and population/community health.

Dr. Laurent is a fellow of Osteopathic Health Policy Fellowship through the American Osteopathic Association; a leadership training program on the analysis, formulation, and implementation of health policy on the local, state, and national levels with the purpose of increasing access to affordable, quality health care as well as addressing social determinants of health.

Dr. Laurent is a thought leader and an advocate for health equity. She drives innovative solutions to address social determinants of health to transform community health outcomes. Dr. Laurent leads in capacity building for innovation in medical education, population health, and community development. In her tenure at NYITCOM she became the founding Executive Director for the Delta Population Health Institute (DPHI) in 2019, the community engagement arm of NYITCOM. DPHI leverages academic resources in education, research, policy and community engagement to catalyze policy, system and environmental change in rural community development in the Mississippi Delta.

Dr. Laurent has been acknowledged for her work as a recipient of the 2018 Excellence in Community Diversity Award- awarded by Arkansas State University, the 2016 INSIGHT Into Diversity Inspiring Women in STEM Award, the 2015 Award of Excellence in Medical Education in Global Health - awarded by NYIT School of Health Professions and the 2014 NYIT President Award for Student Engagement in Global Education.