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23 Leaders Selected for 2022 Advancing Racial Equity on Nonprofit Boards Fellowship

NonProfit Leadership Center

By offering a fresh perspective as a minority female who was raised overseas and has overcome challenges to find her place in a male-dominated field, the vast experience gained through my time spent teaching, mentoring and providing medical care will be the foundation to develop a powerful voice for change.”.

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New Privacy Measure Could Help Safeguard Reproductive Healthcare

NonProfit Quarterly

Whether it’s legal to mail abortion medication presents another layer of complexity. A spattering of legal actions , including lawsuits filed and laws that bar people living in a state with an abortion ban from seeking care elsewhere, have added to the confusion over the legality of abortions that require people to cross state lines.

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Linking Our Fights to Win: On Combatting Elite Capture

NonProfit Quarterly

Frazier is scathing about Black newspapers celebrating the ascension of a Black doctor to the American Medical Association. One such discussion comes from [the Black sociologist] E. Franklin Frazier’s book, Black Bourgeoisie.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

What follows is a regrettable event in medical research related to this topic. 14 Henrietta Lackss narrative highlights several ethical concerns, including informed consent, health data privacy, transparency/ communication with research participants, and the commercialization of data derived from individuals.

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