Siobhan Wescott, MD, MPH
@alaskachevy
Alaska Native public health physician researcher & health equity advocate. Harvard Medical School graduate. Fully Covid vaccinated & boosted x 3. Views my own.
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"Only 1.8% of US doctors were Black in 1906 – and the legacy of inequality in medical education has not yet been erased." From The Conversation U.S. by Benjamin Chrisinger. theconversation.com/only-1-8-of-us…
I knew, but didn’t fully appreciate until reading this NYT Magazine piece by Linda Villarosa about the dangers of hair relaxers, how my parents truly protected my health and well-being! They encouraged my sister and me to love our natural hair despite anti-Black messaging everywhere.
Life lately.💚💫 There’s nothing like being asked back to speak at your second home - Harvard Medical School - about your book LEGACY that you wrote about that second home, by none other than THE Dr. Joan Reede - Black woman physician, Dean, mother, and Harvard professor! Biomedical Science Careers Program
If you keep talking about the assassination attempt don’t you dare tell the kids who survive school shootings and their families to “just get over it” What happened today is unacceptable and what happens every day to kids who aren’t the president and don’t survive isn’t either.