Aerial Petty, DO
Scholarship Year:
2024-2025
Aerial Petty, DO is the 2024-2025 CPV-GW Health Policy Research Fellow. She graduated from the New York Presbyterian- Columbia University Family Medicine Residency Program, where she served as Chief Resident, in 2024. In 2021, she received the Best Leadership Project Award for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) Emerging Leaders Institute under the policy and public health track. The same year, she was also awarded a grant through the AAFP Resident Service Award for her community health project, titled “Assessing the Mental Health Needs of Adolescents in the Harlem Community.” In 2024, she was elected as the AAFP Resident Member to the Board.
Dr. Petty has served as a member of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA) Bureau on Federal Health Programs and also completed the AOA Training in Policy Studies (TIPS) Program in 2024. Her policy project analyzed the relationship between housing inequity and healthcare outcomes in the United States. Her interests include health policy and advocacy, healthcare media, and graduate medical education with an emphasis on curriculum development, as well as social determinants of health, health disparities, mental health, language and cultural concordance, and housing inequity. When she’s not pursuing her love of health policy, she’s often exploring DC, enjoying afternoon tea, or trying to maintain her Duolingo streak.
