Monkeypox Exposed a Big Crack in Public Health: To Heal It, Look to Primary Care
A shortage of vaccines.
Confusing messages about who is at risk.
Challenges accessing diagnostic testing and appropriate treatments.
The public health response to monkeypox looks too much like our nation’s incomplete and inequitable response to COVID-19.
Health Equity Requires Civic Engagement: A Call to Action
In a time when little feels apolitical, most would agree that every person has a right to achieve optimal health. One pathway to achieve improved health for all is by centering equity in health care delivery.
What’s in a Name? Combating Monkeypox Stigma and Inaction
Monkeypox, a serious but usually non-fatal disease that can cause flu-like symptoms and painful lesions, stems from a virus similar to smallpox that spreads through close physical contact. Contrary to its name, the virus’s natural reservoir is not thought to be primates — rather, the zoonotic disease tends to be carried by rodents, which can then pass the virus to human hosts.
Student Activism and Leadership: Introducing Dr LaShyra “Lash” Nolan
I want to create an environment of care that they may not have in other parts of their lives. Particularly for Black women, I want my clinical climate to be one where they feel like they don’t have to carry the burden of the world on their shoulders and be strong. I want my patients to enter as themselves.
Reimagining Substance Use Care with Dr. Kimberly Sue
Dr. Kim Sue has dedicated much of her career to highlighting these womens’ stories, researching American social policy for managing national drug use, and illustrating the deleterious impacts of mass incarceration.
Community Cancer Care: Dr Kemi Doll’s Transformative Vision for Improved Cancer Outcomes
During the 6th century B.C., the lawmaker Solon laid the foundations for Athenian democracy by
I learned grant writing out of necessity because it was a challenge finding funding for the research projects that impassioned me. A learn-as-you-go process, a trial-and-error process, helped me learn the terminology and relationships that I needed to continue my mission. No one was going to hand the money or the skills to me.” Just Equity for Health Interviews Dr. Kemi Doll and how she thrives within academic medicine.
How a Greek Doctor Redefined Baltimore’s Approach to Community Medicine: Community-Driven Care With Dr. Panagis Galiatsatos
During the 6th century B.C., the lawmaker Solon laid the foundations for Athenian democracy by
drafting the first Greek code of law, the Locrian code. Within this framework, Solon devised a radically innovative public health system that sought to provide medical care for all citizens of Athens, including the enslaved.
We Have A Stigma Problem
Stigma is one of the reasons millions of HIV-infected individuals did not get tested early on in that epidemic. Now, stigma is among the reasons we may not make our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic. The same fearmongering behind HIV stigmatization underpins the COVID-19 response, causing us to lose vital time in our public health efforts to contain a global pandemic that has already claimed the lives of over 607,000 Americans.
Introducing Just Equity for Health
Just Equity For Health (JEH) imagines a healthcare system where equity is embedded into everything we do: into how future healthcare providers are trained, into how patients are empowered, and into how care models (the delivery systems that care for patients) are designed.