Health Equity Scholars Program

Throughout my educational journey, I learned that in all phases of pregnancy, delivery, and postpartum care, African-American women are disproportionately affected by racial bias and often have limited access to essential and conscious medical care. From that moment on, helping African American women and other marginalized communities with healthcare needs became my driving motivation to pursue a health sciences degree. These personal realizations and the examples derived from my great-grandparents who not only lived through and actively participated in the civil rights era, but were also my caregivers while my mother worked invigorated me to learn more about how I could impact or assist in changes necessary to closing racial disparities.  

As a Master of Public Health candidate at Brown, I am pursuing an Interdisciplinary Concentration that will further educate and tool me with the knowledge and resources to assist in meeting my objective of identifying factors that lead to health equity, community education, and community advocacy. I also want to bridge the gap between health care providers and those in marginalized communities by increasing patient awareness and satisfaction.

To me health equity is not only an unalienable right, but a human right. Health equity is the guarantee that everyone has the opportunity to live to the fullest. Health equity looks like fair allocation of resources no matter the patient's ethnicity, creed, or socioeconomic status.