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Bram Wispelwey

Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH, is Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Senior Fellow at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity. He is also co-founder and chief strategist of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment and creative integration with existing facilities, and Senior Project Lead in Partners In Health’s U.S. Public Health Accompaniment Unit, which assists states and communities in developing equitable and comprehensive responses to COVID-19.

Articles

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

Ruha Benjamin, Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse, Dorothy Roberts

Colorblind solutions have failed to achieve racial equity in health care. We need both federal reparations and real institutional accountability.

Bram Wispelwey, Michelle Morse

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