Health Advocate Insights November, 2025 The Health Advocate Insights is our monthly digital space, where we highlight a handful of key developments and share how all of us, whether we are students, healthcare providers, educators, administrators, or organizers, can promote health workforce diversity and social accountability in health professional training programs. Our hope is that each issue gives you three things: a…
How Community-Based Education and Research Shaped My Career Goals
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….
October 2025 – Health Advocate Insights
A round-up of October’s biggest policy updates, resources for deeper learning, and invitations to take action wherever you are. Shutdown fallout: families, workers, and students in limbo….
September 2025 – Health Advocate Insights
Welcome back to Health Advocate Insights, the Social Mission Alliance’s monthly newsletter tracking and making sense of what is shifting in health professional training and workforce policy and advocacy. We are here to follow the latest administrative shifts, policy changes, and the ways people are organizing in response, together….
2025-2026 Health Justice Fellows Announced
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….
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….
December 2024 – Health Advocate Insights
With election day now behind us and the results in, we are now getting inklings about how the second Trump administration will look in terms of personnel and policy. Early signals suggest that the administration will focus on restructuring federal programs, deregulating healthcare in some areas and bolstering regulations in others. This shift raises critical questions about how these leaders will address health workforce shortages, funding for education and training programs, and the role of federal agencies in supporting underserved communities. We’ll delve into the backgrounds of these appointees and explore what their leadership might mean for workforce development, access to care, and equity in health and education systems….
