Social Justice in Medicine

Student group at SUNY Downstate that hosts an annual social justice in health conference and an ongoing lecture series and podcast, "Between the lines".

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Check out our new website and podcast for medical students, practitioners, really anyone interested in health equity and social justice @AMSANational @PNHP @PNHPNYMetro @snahp_national @progressiveMDs

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

Check out our new website, with the first two episodes of our student-led podcast, Between the Lines: Everything Your Medical School Didn't Teach You About Health Equity. #healthequity #socialjustice #studentadvocacy #MedEd https://t.co/TvkpsKSHgv

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

@housingworks "We’ve constructed whiteness as a way to resist real talk about income inequality, gender, gender expression, race…. I’ve constructed almost my entire life around staying alive."

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

#AnthonyFeliciano "Work to make an anti-racist health system. Don't ask about dismantling structural racism -- that is piece meal"

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

Panel 1 will be moderated by @DrKamDoobay and hosts panelists @Jarosie of @BxHealthREACH , Anthony Feliciano of #CommissionOnThePublicsHealthSystem, @Srj_Madoori of #TreatmentActionGroup and @brooklyn_grows for #Equity4Downstate

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@brooklyn_grows "Hospitals can use insurance as a proxy for race in order to discriminate"

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

@IamHawkNewsome "I don't think non-profits that work in the Bronx should have a white director. They should step out of the way for other qualified POCs. They take resources and take it back to their communities. We need to take control of our businesses, schools, policing."

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

Panel 2 will be moderated by @sariahmed and hosts panelists Jaron Benjamin from @housingworks Rita Abadi from @MtSinaiSAVI , Lorenzo Jones from @katalcenter and @IamHawkNewsome from @BLMGreaterNY #CommunitiesAgainstCOVID #IfNotNowWhen

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@MtSinaiSAVI Rita: "Housing insecurity and the ability of landlords to evict undocumented people makes it so that they are less willing to seek legal support. Thus, during COVID we saw COVID+ immigrants were kicked out of their homes, causing homelessness of COVID+ immigrants"

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@IamHawkNewsome "We need to take control of our own communities ...our schools, our, housing, and our policing...This is what the movement is for me. Transitioning from BLM creating awareness to now creating opportunities & fostering change. This is where we are right now."

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

@housingworks “Over policing in it of itself, especially during COVID, is a public health issue."

[Social Justice in Medicine @HEAL_HSU]

@MtSinaiSAVI on sex workers during COVID: "Even during COVID, they are going back to work. There is a lot of fear, but people are trying to eat and survive and support their families. So they’re put in a situation where they have no option.”

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@IamHawkNewsome on COVID exacerbating/highlighting other public health issues: “There's so much to deal with from a mental health, domestic violence, and abuse perspective … and I feel like this is just the tip of the iceberg for what's to come."

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@MtSinaiSAVI "There was a fear within black & brown communities of going to the hospital and actually being killed by COVID."