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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...

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....

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....

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…

The week leading up to the presidential election can only be described as chaotic. As both candidates make final pushes in the swing states, healthcare and education issues have fallen by the wayside; however, two big issues have managed to gain steam...

For the October 2024 Social Mission Alliance newsletter, Kiara Marmolejos joins us as guest editor to provide information on physician assistant workforce diversity....

The effects of the Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) decision – which overturned affirmative action in higher education – are now just being realized. Colleges and universities across the country have been releasing the diversity numbers of their most recent entering classes and the results are mixed....

This past month saw record donations made to several of the nation's top historically black medical schools. A gift from the Bloomberg Philanthropies, the donations included $175 million to Meharry Medical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Howard University College of Medicine, as well as $75 million to Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science....

Alec Calac (he/him/his) takes over as guest editor for the August edition of the Social Mission Alliance newsletter to teach us more about Native American health equity....

The past month of the presidential race has brought increased visibility to the respective health workforce and higher education implications of each candidate. Candidate Trump’s pick of Senator JD Vance (R-OH) for Vice President portends a potentially harsh policy environment for higher education and healthcare....