We are elated to welcome the 2025-2026 class of Health Justice Council! Meet Alisa Chew, Miranda Martinez, Kendall Scott, Sharmain Siddiqui, Vicky Vo, and Queena Williams….
2025-2026 Health Justice Fellows Announced
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Transition of Student Assembly to Learner Engagement Initiative
Effective August, 2025, the Social Mission Alliance will be sunsetting the formal “Student Assembly” structure and transitioning related programming into our now formalized Learner Engagement Initiatives. This decision has been made in order to decrease the burden on students relative to leading program development and to instead broaden the conversation among leaders at all stages of professional training. Furthermore, this…
Creating a Physician Assistant Workforce That Represents All Communities
Health Justice Fellow, Bryant Rucker, published a blog post on the Milbank Memorial Fund website on discussing the importance of Physician Assistant workforce diversity. …
Our Commitment to Equity
Our commitment to equity is consistent with the fundamental values of equality, liberty, and opportunity for all and we see ourselves as part of a tradition of advocates pushing this country to hold true these espoused values for everyone….
Introducing the For Us All Campaign
The For Us All campaign was born from a town hall meeting at the 2024 conference. Using the decades of collective wisdom and experience amassed by alliance members, we can challenge narratives pushed by those who seek to maintain the status quo—where healthcare and health professional education prioritize the needs of a privileged few over the needs of everyone who makes our society great….
2024-25 Health Justice Fellows Announced
The Health Justice Fellowship program is dedicated to nurturing the talents of trainees who already show promise and commitment to advancing health justice in society and social mission in health professional training. Help us welcome the incoming cohort of the 2024-2025 Health Justice Fellows….
2024 Health Justice Council Announced
Meet the 2024-25 cohort of the Social Mission Alliance Health Justice Council! Through engagement with the Health Justice Student Assembly, the Alliance seeks to infuse trainee perspectives into all work we do. The Health Justice Council is the leadership body of the student assembly tasked with facilitating this effort….
Just Published – Project 2025: Assessing the Impact on the Healthcare Workforce
New op-ed published in MedPage Today by Toyese Oyeyemi, Maria Portela, and Ed Salsberg. This piece discusses potential limitations placed on accreditation agencies, changing of reproductive health learning, threats to financial aid, and more. …
Medical Schools Given Opportunity to Measure Social Mission
For the first time in 5 years, all U.S. based medical schools have the opportunity to participate in the Social Mission Metrics Self-Assessment, a free tool for schools to evaluate their performance on activities related to social mission. In 2019, the Social Mission Alliance (then the Beyond Flexner Alliance) invited all U.S. based medical, dental, and a random sample of 400 nursing schools to participate in the Social Mission Metrics Self-Assessment. Beginning development in 2016, this self-evaluation evaluates the current state of social mission within a health professions institution and provides key benchmarking information that schools can use to guide improvement….
Op-Ed in NC Newsline: Duke University mirrors national trend with troubling retreat on DEI
Social Mission Alliance team member Nadia Bey published an op-ed on June 13, 2024 in NC Newsline, discussing the repeal of a scholarship formerly reserved for Black students at Duke, pre-existing concerns about campus climate and Black enrollment, and how how additional recent changes to Duke’s merit scholarship structure will negatively impact who has the ability to enroll. …
