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Claire D. Clark, PhD, MPH is a self-identified of health who teaches in the University of Kentucky鈥檚 College of Medicine. Her research explores the relationship between health activism and the development of healthcare institutions in the 20th and 21st century United States, paying particular attention to the ways in which often-volatile constructions of 鈥渃ommunity鈥� have produced legacies of harm as well as healing. Her award-winning teaching is grounded in a liberal arts tradition and employs humanistic strategies including shared inquiry, close reading, historical contextualization, multimedia production, and experiential learning as methods for cultivating both personal and professional identity formation.

Claire holds several leadership roles related to inter- and transdisciplinary education. She co-directs Introduction to Clinical Medicine, a required longitudinal 鈥淒octoring鈥� course for first-year medical students across 好色先生鈥檚 multiple campuses. ICM consists of more than 20 small groups run by MD/PhD preceptor pairs and covers topics such as doctor-patient communication, grief and loss, medical ethics, health disparities, and substance use and harm reduction. She also serves as Director of Graduate Studies for certificate, MS, and PhD programs in Clinical and Translational Science and offers the program鈥檚 graduate seminar in Clinical Research Ethics. In addition, she founded and directs a interdisciplinary, inquiry-based pre-medical program in medical behavioral science, for which she teaches the capstone course, Shadowing: A Guide to Social Medicine, which combines an orientation to the health humanities with longitudinal clinical experiences at interprofessional, biopsychosically-oriented health care sites.

Claire鈥檚 work has been recognized with fellowships, grants, and awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the John P. McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics, the Fulbright Institute of Education Incorporated, and the American Journal of Public Health, among others. She has previously served as invited teaching faculty at the Harvard Macy Institute for Educators in the Health Professions and in 2025 will serve as a Michael E. DeBakey fellow in the History of Medicine at the National Library of Medicine. She is the current co-president of the .

The oldest daughter of a local newspaper editor and a second-wave feminist homemaker, Claire was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, where she attended public schools. She was educated at Vassar College (BA, 2003) and Emory University (combined PhD and MPH, 2014) and has taught at the University of Kentucky since January 2015. She is currently a tenured Chellgren Endowed Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and History and an affiliate of both the College of Medicine鈥檚 Program for Bioethics and Center for Health Engagement Transformation. She is the author of (Columbia University Press, 2017) and a member of the University of Kentucky's Substance Use Research Priority Area (SUPRA) and UNited In True Equity (UNITE) Research Priority Area.