• Empowering Communities to Improve Health: How a hairstyle could bring fitness into fashion Communities have the power to prevent the rising flood of chronic, preventable diseases, according to Reed Tuckson, executive vice president and chief of Medical Affairs of UnitedHealth Group. But can a new hairstyle make getting fit fashionable? Tuckson, a physician and a top executive at UnitedHealth Group, answered this question and raised others on April 26 as he talked about the power of a community to bring new solutions to old problems at the 2011-2012 Howard, Dorsey, Still Lecture and Diversity Awards ceremony. -- HMS News, by Susan Karcz, May 2, 2012
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• Dr. Alden Landry, former Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy (2009), is mentioned in a WGBH article. "Changing the Face of Medicine" -- WGBH, March 28, 2012
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• Dr. Nawal Nour, former Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy (1998), to receive AMWA’s 2012 Lila A. Wallis Women’s Health Award at the 97th Annual Meeting in Miami
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• Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, former Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy (2001), to receive Excellence in Hispanic Mental Health Advocacy and Leadership Award at the 9th Annual Shining Lights Outstanding Leaders for a Brighter Future for Hispanics Awards Gala
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• The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellows in Minority Health Policy stopped by IHS (Indian Health Service) for a tour and an overview of operations. -- IHS Director's Corner Blog, March 1, 2012
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• Why We Need More Minority Doctors - WBUR.org quotes former CFHUF Fellows, physician Alden Landry and Samantha Kaplan “I’m an ER physician,” Dr. Alden Landry told me. “When I walk into patients’ rooms and start speaking to them and introduce myself as their doctor, often older black women will say, ‘Thank you for being my doctor! I’m so proud of you. I’m glad you’re going to be taking care of me.’ They say they feel more comfortable with me as their physician.”... -- WBUR.org, February 10, 2012
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• Tours for Diversity in Medicine, co-directed by Alden Landry, M.D., former CFHUF Fellow, to launch HBCU tour during Black History Month "The inaugural tour will take 11 doctors, dentists and medical school students to five HBCUs in the south, providing premedical enrichment activities." -- blackgivesback, January 30, 2012
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• Health Care Reform: The Moral Obligation JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts Secretary of Health and Human Services, believes that everyone has a right to affordable health care. She shared her vision for achieving that goal at her talk at the eighth annual Alvin F. Poussaint, MD, Visiting Lecture, “Health Care Reform: The Moral Obligation.” -- Focus, January 24, 2012
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• Laura I. Gerald, MD, MPH (2001 Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy) mentioned in the following:
  
  

  "Panel Recommends Paying Eugenics Victims $50,000" - NPR, January 10, 2012 Click here to listen...

  "NC panel: Sterilization victims should get $50,000" - U.S. News on msnbc.com, January 10, 2012 More...
  
  

• Octavio N. Martinez, Jr., MD, MPH, MBA, FAPA (2001 Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy) mentioned in "Interactive: Texas' Shortage of Psychiatrists, Mental Health Workers", The Texas Tribune, December 15, 2011. More...

• The monthly “I am Harvard Catalyst Spotlight” is featuring 2011 VRIP and SCTRP summer students. More...
  
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• New Yorker Magazine's 10/24/11 issue covers an article featuring Camilia Martin, MD, MS (HMS Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, BIDMC) one of the Harvard Catalyst PFDD Fellows. More ...

Additionally, Dr. Martin’s work and the impact of the PFDD fellowship were featured in the monthly Harvard Catalyst Spotlight. More ...

• Aligning Academic Medicine With the Needs of the Health Care System by Creating a Cohort of Physician–Researchers in the Social Sciences by Elna M. Nagasako, MD, PhD (2011-2012 The Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy) -- Academic Medicine: November 2011 - Volume 86 - Issue 11 - p 1346, doi: 10.1097/ACM.0b013e3182308e02, Response to the 2011 Question of the Year
  
  
• For Hinton Scholars, a Jump Start on Science: After AP Biology, students set sights on college -- Focus, October 17, 2011
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• Roslindale 8th-grader receives award from Harvard Medical School
  Shantia Antunes of Roslindale, an 8th-grader at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science, receives the 2011 Reflection in Action Youth Leadership Award from Joan Y. Reede, Dean for Diversity and Community Partnership at Harvard Medical School. -- Boston Globe, July 26, 2011
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• Project Success: HMS provides intense hands-on experience for high school students More...
  

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