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 […]
Category: Blogs
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 inhuman because it often results in physical death.” Dr. Martin […]
Service Learning: If You Build it, They Will Come
A behind-the-scenes look at how we developed and implemented “Introduction to Social Determinants of Health in the Hispanic Community” – an innovative curricular approach to […]
Rethinking the Canary in the Coal Mine: The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) and Burnout
The term “burnout” was popularized by the psychologist, Herbert Freudenberger, in the 1970’s to capture a phenomenon he personally experienced while putting in long hours […]
The time is now! Or is it not? Exploring when trainees are ready to learn health advocacy
More than a century ago Dr. Rudolph Virchow wrote, “The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and social problems fall to a large […]
Preparing our nursing workforce to advance pediatric health equity: A call to action
Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, have a tremendous impact on lifelong health and opportunity. As such, early experiences are an important public health issue […]