Rose L. Molina, MD, MPH

Dr. Rose Molina (she/ella) is an obstetrician-gynecologist and scholar-activist with a passion for applying language and immigration status as critical lenses for understanding and eliminating inequities in maternal health.

She is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology at Harvard Medical School. She completed the Global Women’s Health Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and obtained a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist at The Dimock Center (a federally qualified community health center), where she cares for a large community of Spanish-speaking immigrants, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She is the Lawrence Director of Professionalism, Humanism, and Health Equity in Medicine and the inaugural Director of the Medical Language Program at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Molina works at Ariadne Labs (a joint center for health system innovation between Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) to design, test, and spread solutions to enhance the quality and equity of pregnancy care in the US and around the world. She is a member of Physicians for Human Rights and performs asylum evaluations for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence. She is currently an AHRQ Learning Health Systems K12 scholar and is building a research portfolio to enhance trust when language barriers are present in pregnancy care.