Samantha Hay, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Health Equity and Population Health
BIRCWH Scholar
About
Samantha Hay, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor and Director of Population Health in Emergency Medicine at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Chicago, where she served as Director of the Women’s Initiative and as a founding Board Member of Chicago Women in Emergency Medicine (ChiWEM). She went on to complete fellowship in Health Policy and Social Emergency Medicine Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and earned her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Health Policy from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in 2023. At UIC, Dr. Hay is part of Project HEAL, a screening, education, and linkage-to-care initiative in the emergency department (ED) focused on HIV, hepatitis C, syphilis, and diabetes. She now leads a new ED-based breast cancer screening, education, and linkage-to-care program. In addition, she was selected as a Maternal Health Center of Excellence Research Fellow, where her work aims to improve maternal health outcomes in the ED setting. Dr. Hay’s research and clinical interests center on the social determinants of health and their intersection with emergency care through clinical innovation, policy, and implementation science.