Marcos A. Moreno M.D. is a resident physician in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University. He received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University where he studied neuroscience and his Doctor of Medicine degree from UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences. In addition to being a National Health Service scholar, his prior honors include Cornell’s Solomon Cook award, the Henry Ricciuti award, and the nationally prestigious Udall Healthcare award.

Born and raised on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation in Arizona, Doctor Moreno is a member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe through his father and Mexican American through his mother. He has been a major advocate for Indigenous peoples, and contributed to numerous publications on the matter, including a perspective piece on the effects of pesticides in Indigenous communities, a review of Native American community health responses during Covid-19, a chapter in the book American Indian Health Disparities in the 21st Century, and was selected as a representative author for North America in the United Nations-sponsored book Global Indigenous Youth: Through Their Eyes.

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Dr. Marcos Moreno (2023 Fellow) | The Hill | June 15, 2023