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  • Bearing Witness to Resilience

    Bearing Witness to Resilience

    Reflections from working on Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 Pandemic
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    HEAL Initiative
    Jun 17, 2020
    Is Sorry Enough?

    Is Sorry Enough?

    Dear beautiful girl, I’m sorry.
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    Sam Percy and Carlie Field
    Apr 27, 2020
    The White Savior Industrial Complex in Global Health

    The White Savior Industrial Complex in Global Health

    Originally posted on March 11, 2020 in BMJ Global Health.
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    HEAL Initiative
    Apr 16, 2020
    Inequities of COVID-19: You Cannot Shelter-In-Place If You Have No Shelter

    Inequities of COVID-19: You Cannot Shelter-In-Place If You Have No ...

    How can we ask someone to shelter in place while simultaneously denying them shelter? It sounds cruel and counterintuitive, but this is…
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    Abhi Kole
    Apr 8, 2020
    The Rural Front Line

    The Rural Front Line

    In a Chhattisgarh hospital, patients bear the brunt of the poorly planned COVID lockdown
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    HEAL Initiative
    Apr 1, 2020
    Poverty — the real pandemic

    Poverty — the real pandemic

    Long before coronavirus came along a rural Nepal hospital has been battling a pre-existing public health crisis
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 31, 2020
    In riot aftermath, it’s scorched health care too

    In riot aftermath, it’s scorched health care too

    As north-east Delhi shows, a population losing trust in the care system can affect other health-care indicators as well
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 31, 2020
    What is the role of medical students during the COVID-19 surge?

    What is the role of medical students during the COVID-19 surge?

    We are in the midst of an unprecedented moment in the history of medical education: Match Day ceremonies canceled, clinical rotations…
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 30, 2020
    India cannot fight Coronavirus without taking into account its class and caste divisions

    India cannot fight Coronavirus without taking into account its clas...

    The country must rethink its strategy of epidemic management to be more inclusive of the marginalised sections of the society.
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 26, 2020
    What the “Global North” needs to learn about COVID-19 ?

    What the “Global North” needs to learn about COVID-19 ?

    There are times where our world can feel so different and certain diseases seem relegated to other times and other places. As Covid-19…
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 22, 2020
    Direct Care for COVID-19 Patients During the Early Stages of the US pandemic: The Uncertainty of It…

    Direct Care for COVID-19 Patients During the Early Stages of the US...

    Going in and out of rooms with COVID-19 patients provokes a lot of anxiety, even if you do everything right.
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    Abhi Kole
    Mar 20, 2020
    HEAL and COVID-19

    HEAL and COVID-19

    All men (and women) are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly…
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    HEAL Initiative
    Mar 19, 2020
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