Ted Long, MD, MHS, LHD (Hon) is senior vice president and System Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Services and Population Health at NYC Health + Hospitals, the largest municipal public health care system in the country. Dr. Long leads the system’s clinical services across ambulatory and acute care, as well as the system’s overarching population health framework. He previously served as executive director of the NYC Test & Trace Corps, the city’s emergency response to COVID-19, which distributed and administered more than 150 million COVID-19 tests and over 2.2 million vaccines. He also designed and led the city’s Arrival Center and Humanitarian Centers that helped over 150,000 asylum seekers from over 160 countries.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, Dr. Long leads ambulatory care for a system that provides six million outpatient visits annually. This includes Gotham Health, one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) in the country, and NYC Care, the nation’s largest and most comprehensive initiative to guarantee health care for New Yorkers. Under his leadership, primary care has gone from losing patients each year to now having the most patients and the best health outcomes in the history of the NYC Health + Hospitals.

He also leads acute care clinical services, including acute care capacity management, laboratory, and radiology services, clinical and specialty councils, as well as citywide emergency responses. He supervises population health and manages specialized programs for vulnerable New Yorkers, including the Street Health Outreach + Wellness (SHOW) mobile program and Bridge to Home. He serves as CEO of the NYC Health + Hospitals Accountable Care Organization (ACO), the only ACO in the state with 12 consecutive years of shared savings.

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 led more than 20 federal programs, including the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program, and the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Before coming to CMS, Dr. Long served as medical director at the Rhode Island State Department of Health, where he led health care planning for the State. He was principal author for the first statewide evaluation of health service capacity and access to care, with a focus on primary care capacity and need.

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 60 peer-reviewed articles that have been published in journals including JAMA, Nature Communications, and Lancet Public Health. Dr. Long is a Clinical Professor at NYU Langone’s Department of Population Health and on faculty at the Yale School of Medicine.