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Mark Bradford in Conversation with Laurene Powell Jobs
Mark Bradford
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.
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Leading a movement of health care professionals committing to work long term in underserved communities around the world, including in Navajo Nation.
Mark Bradford in Conversation with Laurene Powell Jobs
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