NonProfit Quarterly

APRIL 15, 2024

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes.

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NonProfit Quarterly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Political figures, professionals, teachers, Buddhist monks, and people from various ethnic minority groups were executed. The atrocities may seem remote to some, but not to the survivors—people in our community, many of whom were children at the time and are now in their late forties or early fifties.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 18, 2024

Image credit: onlyyouqj on istock.com Precision medicine, which relies on genomics to understand how a person’s genetic makeup affects their health, looms large over the United States’ overburdened and underperforming healthcare system. Precision medicine’s contributions to modern medical practice are undeniable.

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NonProfit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I was born in Cabo Verde (Cape Verde) and started working in public health there as a clinical psychologist. I was responsible for mental health in what was, at the time, one of the world’s poorest countries. There I was, talking to parents about lead poisoning, doing what we do so readily in public health: telling people what to do.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JULY 25, 2023

We have also been stirred by the long-overdue reckoning over race in the United States and sought in response to address racial equity more squarely in our work. Many other organizations were adapting their external missions and messaging to this new landscape, too, re-focusing programs on issues like public health and racial equity.

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NonProfit Quarterly

JANUARY 17, 2023

Editors’ note: This article is from NPQ ‘s winter 2022 issue, “New Narratives for Health” and was adapted from The Four Pivots: Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves by Shawn A. A sustained peace of mind comes from the stability of a good job, knowing that your children are safe, knowing that you are not going to lose your home.

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Stanford Social Innovation Review

AUGUST 30, 2023

By Tlaleng Mofokeng & Karabi Acharya In countries and communities around the world there are organizers, leaders, and experts who are working to remove the barriers to health that are rooted in racism and structural discrimination. I knew that I had to pass medical school, I had to nod and say yes and do what I needed to do.

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