Health Justice and Equity

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.

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Women’s Health | Immigrant Health Justice