Health Equity Training Pathway

Dr. Alexander is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency, and Co-Director of the Health Equity Pathway at Indiana University School of Medicine. Dr. Alexander completed her undergraduate education at the University of Florida. She then attended IU Bloomington for her Master of Public Health Degree. After a short stent as a high school teacher and basketball coach, Dr. Alexander attended medical school at IUSM in the MD/PhD (MSTP) Program. She completed her Emergency Medicine Residency at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. Her clinical and research interests include resident education, improving Emergency Department care for sexual and reproductive health issues, and raising awareness of systemic racism and implicit biases in ED clinical practice and their influence on health inequities. Over the past few years, Dr. Alexander has worked hard to integrate DEI and strategies to eliminate health inequities throughout the residency curriculum. She has developed a longitudinal simulation curriculum on addressing microaggressions in the clinical learning environment and is currently working on an intervention to increase access to contraception in the emergency department. Dr. Alexander also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Indiana State Medical Association and on their Commission on Legislation where she advocates for health policy that will decrease health inequities. Because of this work, in 2021 Dr. Alexander was named to EMRA’s Top 25 Under 45 Influencers in Emergency Medicine and she received the Indiana University Trustee Teaching Award in 2022. 

Jennifer Mattei is the GME Health Equity and Education Project Manager. Her educational background is in psychology (Butler University) and public health (IUPUI Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health). Prior to working for Indiana University, she worked in public health as a tobacco treatment specialist and program coordinator. Besides health equity and tobacco cessation, she is also very passionate about mental health awareness, advocacy, and treatment. She joined Indiana University’s Graduate Medical Education team in December 2022. She primarily works as the project manager for the Health Equity Training Pathway and Dr. Francesca Williamson’s Health Equity research. She is also a member of the CLER advisory board, focusing specifically on health care disparities initiatives.