🔊 Announcing our 2025 cohort 🔊 15 dynamic changemakers that hail from Ethiopia, India, Iraq, Malawi, Malaysia, South Africa, Switzerland, Uganda, the United Kingdom and the United States, bringing with them a wealth of experience across Community Engagement, Disability and Accessibility, Engineering, Gender-Based Violence Prevention and Response, Maternal and Child Health, Nursing, Population Health, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Transgender Health and other health equity topic and issue areas. Their collective expertise represents the multifaceted approach required to address health disparities worldwide. 🌐 https://lnkd.in/e_FZwvQs
Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
Professional Training and Coaching
Washington, DC 4,916 followers
The Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity is a one-year, non-residential fellowship program offered by GW University
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The Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity is a one year, non-residential fellowship program offered by the George Washington University. The program aims to develop global leaders who have the knowledge, skills, and courage to build more equitable health systems, organizations, and communities. Health equity speaks to the idea of fairness in realizing the benefits of public health and health care. Despite progress, less advantaged groups continue to live shorter lives and health gaps persist within and between countries. The fellowship trains leaders to recognize, understand and bridge these health gaps. It aims to create a network of committed leaders across organizations, societies, and countries to promote health equity.
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- Professional Training and Coaching
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- Washington, DC
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Employees at Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity
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Beth Mechum
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Mildred Omino
I am a seasoned Facilitator & Researcher who centers Disability Justice in Social Justice. Health Equity | Just Cities |Gender Justice| Inclusive…
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Caroline Laguerre-Brown, JD
Principal and CEO | Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Executive | Fair Employment | EEO Compliance | DEI Program Oversight | DEI Training | Community…
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Adekemi Adeniyan
Global Oral Health Leader and Advocate | Health Equity Champion | Arts in Health | Author | Oral Health Songwriter | A rural dentist breaking down…
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🌍 The journey continues! Our 2024 Fellows are heading to New Zealand for their final convening. This transformative week will be full of deep reflection, cultural immersion, and powerful conversations as they explore leadership and health equity in the Māori context. We are sharing some highlights of their fellowship year as these 15 health equity leaders prepare to graduate and become Senior Fellows!
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💧 So excited to share the news that Senior Fellow Abraham L. B. Freeman Freeman was recognized with the Audience Choice Award for Innovation and Technology at the 2024 The Water Institute At UNC Conference! In addition to his groundbreaking work with Environmental Rescue Initiative to train women and girls to recycle plastic waste into backpacks and raincoats, his team is building Liberia’s first community-based Recycling Resource Center to train additional people who will become a driving force for achieving environmental sustainability in Liberia, and the West African sub-region. ♻️
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Senior Fellow Toyese Oyeyemi is a leader in health equity practice and research, always working to advance health workforce diversity and accountability in health professions education. He recently spoke to The Atlantic about how to best support the next generation of healthcare providers. 👇
Tuition-free medical education is making it harder for low-income and underrepresented minority applicants. Toyese Oyeyemi says, “it's admirable that private philanthropists are aiming their attention and resources towards supporting the next generation of healthcare providers. What we need though is for reasonable accountability from the institutions receiving these dollars.” Despite good intentions, tuition-free medical education has been shown to result in a more competitive application process that still advantages wealthier applicants. This happened at NYU, and is likely to continue as more medical schools receive major funding, like Albert Einstein College of Medicine. “If these schools are genuine in their mission to service and closing disastrous gaps to accessing education and even direct care, they can take a step forward by allocating these funds for students who demonstrate commitments to serving the underserved, students committed to primary care, and capable trainees who simply may not have had the same avenues to medical school as their counterparts with more resources to access.” As Oyeyemi said to Rose Horowitch for a recent article in The Atlantic, these philanthropic donations aimed at decreasing barriers to medical education “need to be coupled with admissions reform or accountability efforts to have any effect.” https://lnkd.in/gFqZMNBb
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Congratulations to Senior Fellow Qusai Hammouri, who was named a finalist for the Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge. The challenge tasked applicants to develop solutions for a future where artificial intelligence isn't a threat to livelihoods worldwide but rather a tool that empowers people to build more productive and meaningful lives. Qusai’s innovation uses AI to visualize medical information, empower patients, and provide culturally inclusive, multilingual education to increase health equity.
🤖 How can we create a society where AI isn't a threat to livelihoods, but rather a tool that empowers people to build more meaningful lives? The Kevin Xu Innovation Challenge in partnership with Equitech Futures posed this crucial question to innovators worldwide from the Rhodes, Equitech, Atlantic Fellows and Schmidt Science Fellows networks. We're thrilled to announce our 6 finalists who have the opportunity to bring their visions to life and share their ideas with some of the most influential leaders in the industry. 🌐 Our finalists will pitch their ground-breaking ideas at the Rhodes Forum on Technology & Society at Oxford on 2 November, exploring their solutions for leveraging AI to create a more equitable and empowering future for all.⚡ Join us at Rhodes House or online to celebrate the teams and explore how AI can drive change and foster a more equitable future. #TechAndSociety2024 Register now to find out which of these exciting projects will win 👉 bit.ly/TechAndSociety2024 Sunday Nwovu Promise Amaechi Caleb Anderson-de Waal Daniel van Zyl Syed Hasnain Akber Nick Allard Aimee Clesi Qusai Hammouri Kenneth Bobroff
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Last month, a group of AFHE Senior Fellows traveled to Lima, Peru to immerse themselves in learning about community health from Socios En Salud. Lima offered a unique lens on community-driven healthcare with its innovative approaches to maternal and child health, tuberculosis, mental health, and the treatment of non-communicable diseases. We were honored to have Nancy Rumaldo R. and Oscar Ramirez from our 2021 cohort show us their work addressing disparities in early childhood development and reducing the incidence of TB and HIV. #healthequity #communityhealth
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Health disparities don’t happen by chance — they are shaped by systemic forces. Senior Fellow Medha Makhlouf reflects on an article that shows how the under-regulation of skin-lightening creams exposes women of color to harmful chemicals. Medha uses her personal and professional experiences to highlight “the need to mainstream intersectionality analyses in food and drug law—and health law generally—in order to identify the structural forces shaping health inequities and the scale of interventions needed to eliminate them.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eP-sNGdP #healthequity #healthlaw
Regulating Skin Lightening Products: A Case Study of Structural Forces Shaping Inequities in Health - Health Law
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Congratulations to Senior Fellow Brigit Carter who received recognition for Clinical Article of the Year from the National Association of Neonatal Nurses (NANN)! Brigit is a leader in nursing education. Her research has focused on strategies to increase the number of historically marginalized nursing students and to understand individual-level social determinants that hinder nursing education. https://lnkd.in/eZpW-e4i
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Senior Fellow Maria Portela MD,MPH, FAAFP wrote an opinion piece in The Baltimore Sun that sheds light on the alarming rates of burnout, discrimination and suicide among women physicians because of the unique challenges they face in balancing demanding medical careers with personal responsibilities. She recommends shifting the culture by investing in mentorship, creating non-retaliatory support systems for those needing help and ensuring equal parental leave and work-life balance policies. https://lnkd.in/eWSJJYby #healthequity #burnout
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From creating a hub for mental health resources for Caribbean youth to facilitating women’s circles to discuss mental health in rural Mexico to supporting human-animal counseling teams in the Philippines, AFHE fellows know that #mentalhealth is crucial in the fight for #healthequity. On this #WorldMentalHealthDay, take a look at the impact and work of our fellows in mental and behavioral health, and reach out if you see any opportunities for collaboration! https://lnkd.in/etB7gVh7
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