In the News
Congratulations to Dr. Jay Bhatt (CFF '12) who is recipient of the 2021 Kennedy School Alumni Award
Shifting Power, Creating Demand and Requiring Accountability: Achieving Vaccine Equity in the US | by Bisola O. Ojikutu, MD, MPH (CFF '03) | Harvard Health Policy Review | April 2, 2021
Taking COVID-19 Disparities to Task | HMS alum Felicia Collins addresses pandemic inequities (HMS News, March 18, 2021)
An interview with Dr. Magdala Chery (CFF '21) is featured in The Commonwealth Fund article, "“Not Just a Black Body”: How COVID-19 Hit Home for One Doctor".
CFF alumni Keila Lopez and Jean Raphael have an opinion piece published: "Translating Social Justice into Meaningful Change for Underrepresented Minorities in Academic Medicine"
KevinMD.com | January 4, 2021
"Battered by COVID-19, but skeptical of vaccinations"
featuring Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH (CFF '03)
PBS News Hour | December 17, 2020
Christian Arbelaez, MD, MPH (CFF '05) is featured in Boston Globe article:
"A Latino doctor was the first person in Rhode Island to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Now he wants to be an example for his community"
Boston Globe | December 14, 2020
An interview with Nakela Cook, MD, MPH (CFF '2004)
Chief of Staff, National Health, Lung and Blood Institute/ National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
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The Cycle of a Dream
A Kid's Introduction to Structural Racism in America
by Kimberly Narain, MD, PhD, MPH (CES '11)
Addressing racism in medicine: Experts call on colleagues to turn talk into action
Featuring Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa (CFF '20) and Frinny Polance Walters ('21)
Heaolio | October 14, 2020
In Vaccine Trial, Researchers Struggle To Ensure Diversity Of Study Subjects
Featuring Bisola Ojikutu, MD, MPH (CFF '03)
WHBH News | September 7, 2020
Making Anti-Racism A Core Value In Academic Medicine
J. Nwando Olayiwola Joshua J. Joseph Autumn R. Glover Harold L. Paz Darrell M. Gray, II
Health Affairs | August 25, 2020
What Is Liberty? Addressing Undeserved Suffering in Health Care
Shantel Hébert-Magee, M.D., M.P.H. (CFF '19)
New England Journal of Medicine | August 7, 2020
Keila Lopez, MD, MPH (CFF '08) features in Univision's live forum on COVID-19 (For Spanish speakers)
August 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
PBS NewsHour Weekend Interview with Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH (CFF '17)
PBS Television | July 25, 2020
The not-so-silent killer missing in medical-training curricula: racism
by Frinny Polanco Walters, Adjoa Anyane-Yeboa & Alden M. Landry | Nature Medicine | July 13, 2020
On Racism: A New Standard For Publishing On Racial Health Inequities
by Rhea Boyd (CFF '07), et al.
Health Affairs | July 2, 2020
Covid-19 vaccine research must involve Black and Latinx participants. Here are 4 ways to make that happen
by Kathryn Stephenson and Bisola Ojikutu (CFF '03)
STAT | June 26, 2020
Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, MFAAP (CFF '17) is a panelist in Harvard Kennedy School ASH Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation's "A Discussion on Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy"
June 9, 2020
Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, MFAAP (CFF '17) was a panelist in American Medical Association's webinar "Prioritizing Equity: Police Brutality and COVID-19"
June 2020
Donald Warne, MD, MPH (CFF '02) speaking in American Medical Association's webinar about the impact of #COVID19 on Native Americans and the unique challenges physicians face in caring for this population
Rhea Boyd, MD, MPH, MFAAP (CFF '17) spoke in the American Academy of Pediatrics' webinar, "A Framework to Approach Racial Health Inequities during the COVID 19 Pandemic".
Donald Warne, MD, MPH (CFF '02) was one of the speakers in the webinar, "Confronting the Challenge of COVID-19 in American Indian Communities", by Harvard University Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
CFF alumni in action in response to Covid-19
