Dr. Charney has prioritized anti-racism initiatives. He established the Mount Sinai Institute for Health Equity Research, which is working to improve health and access to care across the nation’s demographic divide, and expanded Icahn Mount Sinai’s efforts to promote diversity and gender equity in medicine. In June of 2020, Dr. Charney and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System, convened the Mount Sinai Health System Task Force to Address Racism. The Task Force built a roadmap, currently being implemented, for leadership to address and eliminate structural racism and inequities within Mount Sinai, and to serve as a model for dismantling racism and bias in science and medicine.