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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...

Health Justice Fellow, Bryant Rucker, published a blog post on the Milbank Memorial Fund website on discussing the importance of Physician Assistant workforce diversity. ...

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

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....

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....

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....

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. ...

Ujuoñu Nwizu takes over our social media for the day to tell us how they ended up in the field of public health....

Senior Health Justice Fellow Stacie Davis takes over our social media for the day to share her journey to dentistry....

Every February in the United States, we celebrate Black History Month as a nation. As the Social Mission Alliance, we also celebrate Black excellence throughout the year. With the month of February coming to a close, we are taking the time to highlight resources that will help you to continue honoring Black History year-around....