Physician-Researcher | Founder & Executive Director @ Health Justice
Organizational strategy & leadership development | Community-centered research & storytelling
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS
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Last year we issued a report: Breaking the Inequality-Pandemic Cycle that showed inequality is making pandemics more dangerous, longer, and more costly. Removing education about health inequality won’t make viruses go away, just harder to deal with…
www.inequalitycouncil.org/report-inequ...
As far as I know, Howard and UBalt only dental schools in DMV have clinics for public. Even these aren’t free. If COVID shot isn’t in your insurer’s “dispensary”, you could pay hundreds out of pocket. These are problems patients confront, drs should be aware of.
By Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) Network and Transgender Law Cente Youth Research Fellow and former TRUTH alumn, Jacqueline Pham (they/she).
A zine exploring "how TQ2S+ youth make sense of 'identity-based bullying' and 'youth hate crimes,' what they believe the role of law enforcement should be in responding to this harm, and what accountability and safety look like from their perspective."
ourtranstruth.org/we-protect-u...
Happy National Doctor’s Day Dr. Oni Blackstock 🤎
Boycott the World Cup 😡
World Cup risks becoming 'stage for repression and authoritarianism', Amnesty warns
www.thenational.scot/news/2597799...
"The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it validates to teach about health inequities."
Shame. We don't live in a vacuum. All physicians should understand the structural forces that impact their patients' health.
Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in Iran war, defence minister says
From 2 years ago: “It is 12 hours after I emerged from my second gender-affirming surgery. Like a lot of people, my impulse to accelerate transition goals has escalated over the past year as a growing unease fills my body every day that one day, my body and the care it needs, will soon be outlawed.”
The World Cup risks becoming 'a stage for repression and a platform for authoritarian practices' unless urgent action is taken, according to a new…
Spain has closed its airspace to U.S. planes involved in attacks on Iran, a step beyond its previous denial of use of jointly-operated military bases, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said on Monda...
Again, all of this insanity is happening in response to the demands of a president who’s at 33% in some polls & whose political project has been soundly rejected by the American people. It’s nuts. Why are people acceding to his demands?! The emperor has no public opinion behind him.
Dr. Lena Gould, EdD, CRNA, FADLN, FAANA, FAAN
I wrote this last year on TDOV as I was trying to make sense of a range of emotions. As our bodies continue to be problematized and criminalized, t's easy to lose sight of the fact that to be trans in this world is a profound act of self love.
