As a child in her native Jamaica, Cheryl Smith watched her grandmother treat people as a natural healer and deliver most of the babies in her parish. The model she provided became the blueprint for Smith both going into public health and being a community leader.

“I never wanted to be anything else,” said Smith, now a leading physician in Harlem for over 30 years in the area of HIV/AIDS. She has been an attending physician and primary care provider at Gotham Health, Sydenham since 2014. Before that, she spent several years at the community-focused North General Hospital, before the clinic was closed as a result of bankruptcy. Since 2008, she has also served as associate medical director with New York State Department of Health’s AIDS Institute. She moved with her parents and siblings to N

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