Gurbaksh Esch, MD, MPH, FAAP
- Director, Leadership in Community and Public Health
- Flint Campus
- Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Bio
Gurbaksh Esch, MD, MPH, FAAP is an assistant professor at the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health at MSU College of Human Medicine. She is the director of the Leadership in Community and Public Health program.
She received her medical degree from the MSU College of Human Medicine in 2018 and was a previous "Flintstone". She completed her pediatric residency at Beaumont in Royal Oak (now Corewell Health East). Dr. Esch is an inpatient and outpatient pediatrician at Hurley Medical Center in Flint. After her residency, she became the inaugural scholar of the Alice Hamilton Scholar Program with the Pediatric Public Health Initiative During the two-year program, she received a Master of Public Heath through the College of Human Medicine.
She has received local and national grants to support health equity efforts, through medical education programming on adverse and positive childhood experiences, trauma-informed care, and other equity-based topics. She is very passionate about advocacy, writing published opinion pieces on firearm violence and COVID-19 vaccinations, and supporting medical students and residents in their advocacy efforts. She has served on the board of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics since 2022, currently holding the position of secretary on the board and the position of chair of the Education Committee and of the Health Equity Workgroup.
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