Doctors for America members work to make our health care system more just and equitable for all, acting to erase inequities based on race, ethnicity, sex, gender, sexuality, age, immigration status, and more. DFA doctors, medical students, and health advocates are themselves diverse and care for patients from an incredible diversity of backgrounds – achieving health justice and eliminating health inequity are core parts of our mission. We see combating systemic racism as both a public policy imperative and as an issue of introspection, an internal scourge that is often foundational to the development of modern medical institutions and that needs to be rooted out. Our members are active in the fight for health services including full reproductive health care for women; view immigrant health and immigration policy through a health justice lens; and advocate for the patients they see from the LGBTQ, refugee, Native American, veteran, and other underrepresented communities.
The Women’s Health Work Group is a group of interdisciplinary providers of all specialties and fields of medicine who have come together to advocate for the health of all those who identify as woman, including cis, trans, and gender non-conforming.
As the Immigrant Health Justice subcommittee, we bring a national, interdisciplinary physician voice to support grassroots-led campaigns for immigrant health justice across the U.S. We organize and mobilize a critical mass of physicians to support immigrants in our communities through advocacy and direct service. We are led by a steering committee of DFA members with rotating leadership, and count on the power of our entire working group membership to get our work done.