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Black Maternal Health and HIV/AIDS: Advocacy Lessons Across Movements

The state of Black maternal health in the United States is dire—and has been for centuries. Despite incredible gains in…

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 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.…

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…

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,…

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…

About Me

Stella Safo, MD, MPH is a Harvard-trained, board-certified HIV primary care physician, an innovator in designing health care delivery models, and an advocate committed to gender and racial equity and civic engagement in healthcare. She is a founding member of Equity Now at Mount Sinai, VoteHealth 2020 and the Coalition to Advance Antiracism in Medicine. In 2020, Dr. Safo was named one of Modern Healthcare’s top minority clinicians to watch.