Torian Easterling

(He/Him/His)

Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer – One Brooklyn Health

"The City of New York is taking the next step in ensuring equity and anti-racism lives at the center in the way this city is organized and governed, and I am honored to serve on the Advisory Board to uphold the people's agenda," said Dr. Torian Easterling, SVP for Population and Community Health, One Brooklyn Health System. We need long term structural change to ensure racial equity and social justice is actualized in our city. The measures, which New Yorkers have voted on, have the potential to make a positive generational impact for black and brown communities and other marginalized communities in this city. And this is what we need to succeed." 

Dr. Easterling is a family medicine and public health physician, who currently serves as the Senior Vice President for Population and Community Health and Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer for One Brooklyn Health. OBH is a three-member hospital system, with an extensive network of primary and specialty care in Central BK, whose mission is to preserve and enhance delivery of care in Central Brooklyn. Prior to his role at One Brooklyn Health, Dr. Easterling served as the First Deputy Commissioner and Chief Equity Officer at the NYC Health Department. As the First Deputy Commissioner and inaugural Chief Equity Officer, Dr. Easterling worked to align the agency's external and internal equity initiatives. He led the City's equity response for the COVID-19 pandemic, including ensuring equitable distribution of vaccines to populations and communities hardest hit. Dr. Easterling holds a Bachelor of Science from Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA), a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School, and a Master of Public Health (M.P.H) from Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai in New York. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, NY, and a General Preventive Medicine residency at Icahn School of Medicine at Sinai in New York.