By: Patricia Valoy | Contributing Editor for Science and Social Justice Last year I quit…
Race, Class, and Health
This course critically examines health status and health care disparities among racial/ethnic minority groups in…
How Racism Harms Pregnant Women – and What Can Help
Racism is making people sick — especially black women and babies, says Miriam Zoila Pérez. The doula turned journalist explores the relationship between race, class and illness and tells us about a radically compassionate prenatal care program that can buffer pregnant women from the stress that people of color face every day.
Biopolitics in Palestine: Community Health, Political Violence, and Daily Resistance
By Bram Wispelwey On June 1, 21-year-old volunteer medic Razan Al Najjar was shot and…
Life as a Nurse in Gaza
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haLU32C-A34 At the age of 27, Azza Jadalla has already lived through six…
Haiti in a Time of Cholera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02MgwqJk95Y Al-Jazeera gives an in-depth report of the origins and effects of the cholera epidemic…
Terms of Endearment: Global Racism and the Willful Impoverishment of Black and Brown People
By Joia Mukherjee Haiti, January 17, 2018. This country and people taught me what I know…
From AIDS to Global Health
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuG9AVTNhyA Stefano Vella is a clinician and a researcher. He is based in Rome, at…
Social Medicine Course Toolkit
By Social Medicine Consortium Members of the Social Medicine Consortium have recommended the following resources…