The Politicization of the COVID Pandemic Further Widens the Racial Divide
I was in a small grocery store in my area (Westchester County, NY) and overheard two store workers arguing about whether the COVID pandemic was […]
Category: Blogs
What happens when a pandemic coincides with a catastrophe in the community? A firsthand account of events in Minneapolis following the death of George Floyd.
As faculty in the Hennepin Healthcare Family Medicine residency training program, I have the great fortune to work in the most diverse program at the […]
New life during the COVID-19 pandemic: Nursing Perspective
We are privileged as nurses to have a birds’ eye view of some of the most intimate moments of people’s lives. We are there at […]
Health Equity in the Time of Coronavirus
As Dr. Campbell wrote in last month’s NCEAS blog, the SARS2/CoV-2 pandemic is expected to exacerbate health inequities in communities across the United States for […]
SDOH Education & the COVID-19 Pandemic
Currently, the U.S. and the world at large is in the midst of a pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). The virus is believed […]
Fitz Mullan: Remembering a pioneer in Social Mission in Health Professions Education
Fitz and I met in 2016 when I came to George Washington University, and I immediately felt at ease. I looked around his office and […]
Moving Beyond Individual to Collective Responsibility for Behavior Change
The search for the “American dream” compelled my parents to leave their homeland to come to the United States with few resources, money or support. […]
Lessons on Leadership
Though the focus on this blog series tends to be on social determinants of health (SDOH) curricula or related efforts in education, I’d like to […]
Bringing Bioethics to SDOH and SDOH to Bioethics: A Justice-Centered Bioethics Curriculum for Medical Students
Most medical professionals can readily recite the four core principles of bioethics: autonomy or respect for persons, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. Yet the field of […]
Transforming Health Disparities through Interprofessional Education
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Despite growing recognition of […]