Gail G. McCray, M.A., M.C.H.E.S.^® is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES) and faculty member in the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine/Prevention Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine. She serves the Georgia CTSA-CE and Georgia CEAL as part of the training and capacity-building team and as a long-term champion of Community Health Workers (CHW) beginning around 2001. Since 2016, there has been a renewed effort to have CHWs recognized as essential members of the healthcare team. She serves on the statewide Advisory Council and on national committees to advocate for appropriate credentialing of this workforce. Additionally, since 2016, she has worked to develop an innovative high school CHW program and has been working on an online curriculum for this program. She is working with many others to get CHW credentialing across the legislative finish line.

 Her research interests include cancer prevention and control (especially multiple myeloma), hypertension, bioethics, and health literacy.  She also co-teaches a Community Health Course for first-year medical students. Her professional foci are to help develop innovative ways to improve the quality and satisfaction of the patient and community health experience and of the many areas of overall community health promotion.