Taj Mustapha

In her role as Chief Equity Strategy Officer, Taj Mustapha, MD, is responsible for the vision, leadership, and strategic planning of health equity efforts systemwide. Her work is an essential component of our health system’s mission to heal, discover, and educate for longer, healthier lives. A practicing internist-pediatrician, Taj will bring an experienced perspective to our organization’s work to reduce health disparities and improve patient outcomes for all the communities we serve. She has advanced equity endeavors as a professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School, where she is assistant dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion. Taj also serves as a member of the M Health Fairview Healing, Opportunity, People, Equity (HOPE) Commission, which is committed dismantling discrimination in healthcare.