Commencement Program

HONORARY DEGREE RECIPIENT • DOCTOR OF HUMANE LETTERS

Theodore G. Long, MD, MHS Senior Vice President Ambulatory Care and Population Health

Ted Long, MD, MHS, is senior vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals (NYCH+H), the largest public healthcare system in the U.S. Dr. Long leads ambulatory, or outpatient, care for the system that provides nearly six million outpatient visits annually. He previously served as executive director of the NYC Test & Trace Corps, the City’s operational response to COVID-19 which administered and distributed more than 150 million COVID-19 tests and over 2.2 million vaccines. He currently also leads the City’s Arrival Center and Humanitarian Centers that have helped hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers coming into NYC.

At NYCH+H, Dr. Long leads one of the nation’s largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), transforming the health system’s portfolio of ambulatory care into an integrated and high-quality network providing care to all New Yorkers, without exception. He supervises Population Health and founded the NYC Care program, a program which provides universal access to care for all New Yorkers without exception. Today the program has 140,000 members, many of whom have not seen a doctor in decades. Dr. Long previously served as senior medical officer for the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where he helped lead more than 20 federal programs. Before CMS, Dr. Long served as medical director at the Rhode Island State Department of Health. Dr. Long is a practicing primary care physician who did his undergraduate work, residency training and post graduate master’s work in health services research at Yale University. He has authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles. Dr. Long is a Clinical Professor at NYU Langone’s Department of Population Health, as well as on faculty at the Yale School of Medicine and the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care.