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Building a Global Movement for Health Equity

December 09, 2022

Dr. Sriram Shamasunder is a hospitalist and professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco with a driving passion for health equity. He is the co-founder and faculty director of the HEAL (Health, Equity, Action, and Leadership) Initiative, where he leads a health workforce delivering care in Navajo Nation and nine other countries around the world. At the height of the COVID pandemic, Shamasunder led the HEAL UCSF emergency response, caring for patients and supporting volunteer UCSF nurses and doctors in HEAL’s partner site hospitals in New Mexico and Navajo Nation. HEAL received a Navajo Indian Health Service award for its service in 2020.

Shamasunder was named Young Physician of the Year in 2010 by the American College of Physicians; an Asia21 Fellow by the Asia Foundation in 2012; a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar to India in 2012; and an Emerson Dial Fellow in 2021. In 2016, he gave a TEDx Talk called “Whose Suffering Matters Less, and Why?” He is also a published poet, having studied and taught with June Jordan’s Poetry for the People while at UC Berkeley.

From Emerson Collective’s Demo Day 2022

Sriram Shamasunder

Leading a movement of health care professionals committing to work long term in underserved communities around the world, including in Navajo Nation.

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Demo Day 2022 Highlights

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      Empowering Sustainable Brands and Decarbonizing Global Supply Chains

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      Uncovering Truths About Family-Separation Policy

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      Preserving Democracy through Legal Action and Advocacy

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      Transforming Textile Waste into Raw Material Streams

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    • 6 min

      Creating Pathways in the Clean Energy Economy

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      Advancing Food Sovereignty, Climate Justice, and Economic Empowerment in the Global South

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    • 4 min

      Transforming the Way People Receive Healthcare

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    • 4 min

      Building a Global Movement for Health Equity

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    • 7 min

      Building Empathy and Equity within the Workforce with VR

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    • 5 min

      Demo Day 2022: "Drum As You Are"

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      Demo Day 2022: "What We Carry What We Keep”

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      Demo Day 2022: It Takes All of Us

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