Dalia Owda The Social Mission Alliance For Us All Campaign is a vehicle to activate our community and the communities they serve to advance structural changes aligned with SMA’s vision in health professions training. A part of the For Us All campaign, is a media narrative effort that will highlight the material impacts these kinds of advancements have on patients, communities, clinicians, learners,…
Four Senior Fellows from the Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity reflect on their experience attending the 2026 SMA Conference….
Chiamaka Ihuoma Chine recently published an article on BlackDoctor Pro as part of the For Us All Campaign. Her article, “Workforce Diversification in Practice: Food Is Medicine as the Proof Point” speaks to the importance of a diverse health workforce in the development of culturally-tailored dietary interventions and recommendations….
I first saw medicine’s limits at seventeen, volunteering alongside local EMTs during the Afghan refugee crisis in August of 2021. One night, we were dispatched to the Dulles Expo Center–where families were being housed–when a man who had just received the COVID-19 vaccine experienced painful side effects. He only spoke Pashto yet was trying to communicate with us, and even though we were medically trained, we were not able to offer emotional support in his language….
My name is Joshua Barnes. I am an advanced practice nurse and an educator. My days unfold in patient rooms, across academic spaces, within lecture halls, and in the deliberate work of writing that fills the margins of scholarly journals, advancing practice and advocating for those I care most about: my students, the populations we serve, and our shared humanity….
In this blog post, Karina Ascunce González and Avik Chatterjee highlight the importance of community-based education and research. Karina, a Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience at Yale University, shares how conducting qualitative research with Latine populations in Boston shaped her understanding of community health and how to best serve communities….
The BEC addresses inequities that structural racism and oppression have on the health, well-being, growth, and economic stability of the Black community in Pittsburg and beyond by leveraging the expertise of social scientists, physicians, health care professionals, epidemiologists, public health practitioners, funders, government officials, business and education leaders, researchers, and community advocates….
For this month’s champion spotlight series we spoke with Families Moving Forward (FMF), a community-based organization in Durham, North Carolina that helps provide families with children a stable, safe, and loving environment while they are in the temporary crisis of homelessness….
In April, we spoke with Dr. Luke Smith, Psychiatrist and Executive Director at El Futuro, a community-based nonprofit organization that seeks to transform mental health care in North Carolina and beyond. They provide bilingual therapy, psychiatry, case management, substance use treatment, and other mental health services to North Carolina’s Latino community in a welcoming environment of healing and hope. El Futuro hosts residents and students, and leads efforts to support and educate those who are interested in serving the Latino community….
Ujuoñu Nwizu takes over our social media for the day to tell us how they ended up in the field of public health….
The Social Mission Alliance features Social Mission Champions on our social media accounts and blog. The series highlights the important work done by those who are advancing health equity and addressing the health disparities of the society in which it exists. If you’d like to be considered for a Social Mission Champion feature, complete the form below.
