Theodore G. Long, MD

Ted Long, MD, MHS, LHD (Hon) is senior vice president of Ambulatory Care and Population Health at New York City Health + Hospitals (NYCH+H), the largest municipal public healthcare system in the country. Dr. Long leads ambulatory, or outpatient, care for the system that provides six million outpatient visits annually. He previously served as executive director of the NYC Test & Trace Corps, the City’s operational response to COVID-19 which distributed and administered more than 100 million COVID-19 tests and over 2.2 million vaccines. He also designed and led the City’s Arrival Center and Humanitarian Centers that helped over 150,000 asylum seekers from over 160 countries.

At NYCH+H, Dr. Long leads one of the nation’s largest Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC), with a focus on transforming the health system’s portfolio of ambulatory care into an integrated and high-quality network providing care to all New Yorkers. He supervises Population Health, and recently accepted leadership for Enterprise Radiology, Clinical Laboratory and Blood Bank, Hospital Police, Biopreparedness, virtual Express Care, Emergency Management, and the system’s Clinical Councils. In 2019, Dr. Long founded NYC Care, providing universal access to care for all New Yorkers without exception. Today the program has 140,000 members, many of whom have not seen a doctor in decades. In September 2025, he opened the first-of-its-kind Bridge to Home facility in Manhattan—an innovative step-down housing model embedded within our system’s continuum of care, with onsite behavioral health services that help patients with severe mental illness transition safely into the community and connect to permanent housing.

Dr. Long previously served as senior medical officer for the Quality Measurement and Value-Based Incentives Group at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), where he led more than 20 federal programs, including the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program. Before coming to CMS, Dr. Long served as medical director at the Rhode Island State Department of Health, where he led health care planning for the State. He was principal author for the first statewide evaluation of health service capacity and access to care, with a focus on primary care capacity and need.

Dr. Long is a practicing primary care physician who did his undergraduate work, residency training and post-graduate master’s work in health services research at Yale University. He has authored over 60 peer-reviewed articles that have been published in journals including JAMA, Nature Communications, and Lancet Public Health. Dr. Long is a Clinical Professor at NYU Langone’s Department of Population Health, and has served on faculty at the Yale School of Medicine and the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care since 2015 teaching about health policy and public health.