Amy Clithero-Eridon is a faculty member in the Department of Family & Community Medicine (FCM) at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Dr. Clithero-Eridon has a PhD in Family Medicine from the University of Kwazulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa as well as a Masters of Business Administration with a health systems concentration and a Masters level certification in Medical Education from the University of New Mexico. In addition to teaching medical students about social determinants of health, health policy, and health services research, Dr. Clithero-Eridon participates in numerous educational research initiatives focusing on educational best practices, health services research, and social accountability within medical education. Dr. Clithero-Eridon has over two dozen peer reviewed papers and has presented at almost 60 conferences worldwide. She is the North American Regional Representative for the Network Towards Unity for Health (www.thenetworktufh.org), the Co-Director of the UNMHSC WHO Collaborating Center, the Director of health policy and health systems education for medical students, the Director of scholarly activities for the FCM Department, is a member of the Training for Health Equity Network (https://thenetcommunity.org/), and the AMEE Aspire Academy as well as a member of the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine medical education steering committee.