Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice

Why Your Doctor Should Care About Social Justice

At TED talk featuring Mary Bassett, who discusses her experience dealing with the AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe in the 1980’s and her regret for not sounding the alarm for the real problem: the structural inequities embedded in the world’s political and economic organizations, inequities that make marginalized people more vulnerable. She argues that these same structural problems exist in the United States today, and uses every chance she has to rally support for health equity and speak out against racism. Watch now.