"We don't talk about the power of love as a social determinant of health.
The mothers protecting their children, midwives who stay up for the second night in a row to attend to a woman in labor, the doctors who are exhausted from caring for patients with COVID and are still on call, the pharmacists who count every last pill, and the community health workers who are walking that extra mile.
The social determinant of love, which is which is what we bring as the HEAL group, as Partners in Health, as Muso, as Compañeros en Salud, as our great collective, that is our counterweight to the forces of racism, the forces of impoverishment, of white supremacy."
In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine apartheid and layers of structural violence, it is love and a deep commitment to community that fuel HEAL fellows and healthcare workers all over the world to continue serving the underserved for the long term.
We honor the accomplishments and contributions of this dedicated cohort of HEAL Fellows as well as the communities that hold them and make their success possible!
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