Health Equity And Leadership Conference

Join the Women, Gender & Health Concentration for their International Women's Day Luncheon on Monday, March 09th at 1pm in Kresge 110!

We will be celebrating 109 years of radical solidarity, union struggles & 150th & 100th anniversaries of 15th and 19th amendments for voting rights regarding “race, color or previous condition of servitude” and women’s suffrage in the US (as fighting against voter suppression continues). Please join us for an informal lunch (provided!) and a bit of history, and share your IWD story too!

Please contact [email protected] to RSVP.

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Mar-a-Lago files request to hire 61 foreign temporary workers

"Take to the streets!" - Dr. Rima Rudd

I don't know if there is a right or wrong side of history to be on... We are reflecting on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr... If the arc of the moral universe will bend toward justice, we will look back at this moment in time with a critical eye..." - Dr. Boynton-Jarrett

Don't be inactive!

Don't let training pull your passion away from you. Remind yourself every day why you are doing this. Write it down and look at it every day." - Dr. Robert Marlin

"We come to the work with an appreciate that a deficit driven orientation can do some harm. [Vital Village] is beginning with the assumption that there are already solutions in the communities. We bring light to them and work to have them be scaled up rather than a new intervention from outside being brought in to be adopted." Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD

"We have a wealth of resources here in Boston, but none of them communicate with each other... One the most important now is immigration legal care. We are doing this through electronic means using video to jump across space and save time"- Dr. Robert P Marlin, MD, PhD, MPH

Perhaps our job is to create a space to enact and build on existing efforts within communities rather than bringing in our own replicates.

Dr. Renee Boynton Jarrett on Engaging Communities

We mistakenly assume that we all start at ground level, but we are not all on common ground.

One of the glaring is the mismatch between what we know and what we do (about it). Dr. Boynton-Jarrett

"It strikes me that it takes a long time for the field to shift. It strikes me that you may not see yourself in a position of power, but you are able to disseminate the story, publish, do the research is an example of narrative power."
-Dr. Renee Boynton-Jarrett, MD, ScD