This report summarizes accomplishments in 2021 and presents the 2022-2023 Strategic Plan….
2021 Annual Report
Category: Insights
Denise Rodgers: Beyond Flexner Conference Insights 2015
Dr. Rogers’ prescient insights about the challenges we face in building a social mission movement are timely today in light of the changes in attitudes in the post-Trump era….
How Can Health Professions Students Help to Fight the COVID-19 Pandemic?
As federal officials determine when and how to reopen the country, numerous public health experts fear that the United States is significantly short of the public health workers needed to mitigate another occurrence and properly perform contract tracing….
Social Mission: Voices for Change Fellowship
The UC Davis Center for a Diverse Healthcare Workforce (CDHW) and the Beyond Flexner Alliance (BFA) recently launched a new Social Mission: Voices for Change Fellowship program….
BFA Student Alliance Letter to Biden-Harris Administration
Following the Health Professions Students’ Voices on Voting and the Election webinar, the Beyond Flexner Alliance Student Assembly drafted a letter to be sent to the Biden-Harris Administration regarding top issues the Administration should address from the health professions students’ perspective….
Beyond Flexner: Social Mission in Medical Education with Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan
Listen to the Founder of the Social Mission Alliance discuss the critical role of social mission in educating future health professionals….
Remembering Dr. Jack Geiger
Watch and listen to the incomparable, inspiring Jack Geiger MD – his journey from Harlem and the Civil Rights Movement to founding the community health center model to global human rights missions and a humanitarian legacy…
Donald Berwick: the Challenge of Change, the Direction of Change
The renowned Don Berwick, master storyteller, speaks to the 2015 Beyond Flexner Alliance Conference about professional identity formation and change in health and healthcare…
Letter to House Ways and Means Committee
Social Mission Alliance (then The Beyond Flexner Alliance) submitted invited commentary and recommendations to the Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee regarding the special responsibility of health professional schools, academic health centers, and training hospitals in producing future health care providers….
Camara Jones: the Gardener’s Tale and the Physician’s Legitimate Role
Dr. Jones’ allegories bring to life the complex connections among health and wellbeing, social determinants of health, social determinants of equity, population-level interventions, and the role of health professionals….
