Matthew Murphy MD, MPH

Dr. Matthew Murphy is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences. Dr. Murphy is a staff physician at the Rhode Island Department of Corrections where he manages several population health programs including HIV prevention programming, Hepatitis C treatment, and gender-affirming care. Additionally, he has held several public health leadership positions within Brown and affiliated institutions including as Director of Research for Brown's Internal Medicine Residency program (current), co-leader of the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research's Sexual and Gender Minority Research Working Group (former) and Medical Director of Open Door Health (former), an initiative of the Rhode Island Public Health Institute, and Rhode Island's first comprehensive primary care clinic dedicated to meeting the needs of the state's LGBTQ+ population.

Dr. Murphy's research interests align with his clinical work, which focuses on reducing health disparities among multiple marginalized populations. Dr. Murphy has significant experience working with vulnerable populations both in the United States as well as internationally. The NIH, the CDC, the World Health Organization, the Pan-American Health Organization, and the European Commission have supported his work. He was a Fulbright research fellow in Morocco where he conducted descriptive analyses of the country's national HIV program. He was an Erasmus Mundus fellow and completed the European Masters of Public Health in Spanish at the Andalucian School of Public Health in Granada, Spain, and defended his Master's thesis on global health system reform in French at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sante Public, France's preeminent public health training institution. Through his global health work, he has acquired fluency in Spanish, French, and Arabic.

He has authored several articles that have been published in high-impact journals such as the Lancet, the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and the American Journal of Public Health. He has received national recognition from the United States Public Health Service and the American Medical Association for his contributions to public health.