Ernest Moy is the Executive Director of the VHA Office of Health Equity. This office leadss efforts to reduce disparities in health and health care affecting Veterans and implements new technologies for promoting health equity. Currently, the office is coordinating analyses and messaging related to disparities in care among Veterans and building tools to address structural bias, discrimination, and social determinants of health. Prior to joining VHA, he was a Medical Officer at the National Center for Health Statistics of the CDC. At CDC, he studied rural health disparities, analyzed data on opioid poisoning deaths, and developed new data visualizations for disseminating health statistics. Prior to CDC, he was Director of the Division at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) that designed and produced the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report, submitted annually to Congress. He has also worked as a Director of Research and Assistant Vice President at the Association of American Medical Colleges, Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and Emergency Care Physician at the Baltimore VAMC. Ernest’s research interests include disparities in access and quality of care, particularly the application of electronic health records, machine learning, and systems science modeling to improve health care. He was selected to serve as the first Academy Health Innovator-in-Residence and won a team award at the 2019 MIT DC Grand Hack.