Carine Davila, MD, MPH

Carine Davila, MD, MPH, is a palliative care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and an Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School who is passionate about improving access and quality palliative care for historically marginalized populations, particularly for Latino Spanish-speaking patients. She serves as the Equity Director for the MGH Division of Palliative Care and Geriatric Medicine, co-created the palliative care integrated health equity curriculum, and co-leads Mass General Brigham’s United Against Racism efforts to reduce disparities in serious illness communication for marginalized communities now within the Continuum Project, an MGH hospital-wide serious illness care program. Dr. Davila completed undergraduate studies in public policy at Princeton and received her medical degree from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and fellowship at the Harvard Interprofessional Palliative Care Fellowship. After her clinical training, Dr. Davila was selected as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow in Minority Health Policy at Harvard. She pursued her master’s in public health from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health.