AIDS Delaware Honors Marshala Lee-McCall, M.D., MPH, With 2024 Community Partnership Award
ChristianaCare's commitment to service in the community led her to practice medicine in Delaware
For her commitment to health and innovation in HIV/AIDS, AIDS Delaware has honored ChristianaCare physician-scholar Marshala Lee-McCall, M.D., MPH, with its 2024 Community Partnership Award.
Lee-McCall was recently named to the Board of Directors of AIDS Delaware, a Wilmington-based nonprofit with the mission to eliminate the spread and stigma of HIV/AIDS, improve the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS, and promote community health through comprehensive and culturally sensitive services, education programs and advocacy.
“We must continue to work to prevent and adequately treat HIV disparities in our communities,” said Lee-McCall.
“I’ll keep rolling up my sleeves and continuing to work towards eradicating HIV. We can do it.”
At ChristianaCare, Lee-McCall is the Harrington Trust Physician Scholar and director of the Harrington Community Partnership Fund through the Institute on Research Equity and Community Health, known as iREACH.
In this role, she is responsible for strengthening community partnerships, developing new models of patient-centered health care delivery and identifying methods for addressing the social determinants of health in disadvantaged populations. She also mentors trainees from underrepresented backgrounds in medicine.
“ChristianaCare is caring for our neighbors with love through many initiatives that address social determinants of health.” —Marshala Lee-McCall, M.D., MPH
Lee-McCall said the opportunity to apply her advocacy and policy skills through service in the community via the Harrington Community Partnership Fund led her to practice medicine in Delaware.
“ChristianaCare is not only the clinical leader for the region, but is caring for our neighbors with love through many initiatives that address social determinants of health,” she said.
“We’re all working collaboratively to discover innovative ways to improve the health care status of our community members and meet their needs in as many capacities as possible.”
She is president of Delaware’s National Medical Association chapter and is a member of the Delaware Healthy Mother and Infant Consortium.
The AIDS Delaware award is the latest accolade for Lee-McCall, recognizing her dedication to health equity and community outreach.
In 2022, Lee-McCall was named one of the National Medical Association’s Top 40 Health Professionals Under 40. For innovative health care initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic, she also received the association’s Young Physician Award, a Brown Medical School Junior Alumni Award for Excellence in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, and a Harlem Fine Arts African Americans in Medicine award.
She was named Citizen of the Year by Gamma Mu Nu Omega Psi Phi fraternity and an honoree in Delaware Business Times 40 Under 40 in 2021.