Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH is the Executive Director of the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, MA. Dr. Jophnson has built organizations which stand at the leading edge of hospital-based interdisciplinary healthcare delivery, discovery and disease prevention. Dr. Johnson started and grew the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology. This nationally recognized center includes an interdisciplinary health care practice model that solidifies the important connection between healthcare delivered to each patient and the health of entire communities.

She is an internationally recognized expert in defining disparties and improving the quality of cardiology care for women and minority populations. Her vision, research, and ability to lead at the intersection of health care and public health has brought her key leadership roles in the local and national arenca, including chair of the City of Boston's Public Health Commission and member of the National Institutes of Health Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health.

Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is a graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges.