We are excited to be joined on the podcast today with Dr. NanEfua Baidoo Afoh-Manin in a University of Rochester reunion!!! She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, with a masters in global public health and disaster medicine from Columbia University, public health advocate, and one of the founders of Shared Harvest Fund.
As an innovator and thought leader, she believes that health is a human right and has helped organizations and government agencies design programming and health equity initiatives that close the equity gap by addressing the social and political determinants of health.
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated health disparities and increased the burnout rates of Black and Brown medical professionals. Witnessing this firsthand, Dr. Nana designed Project #Resus to resuscitate the medical pipeline and reinforce support around Black, women and first generation health professionals through their medical journey.
We talk today about her journey to pivoting her work of supporting social impact volunteers with non profits to supporting these same volunteers working toward Covid 19 pandemic response, her dedication to her community and establishing trust despite vaccine fatigue, replenishing the workforce of humans who are experiencing the same things that the humans who seek care or avoiding care are experiencing, and how we move these mountains one pebble at a time.
https://www.sharedharvestfund.org/
https://drnanamd.com/
Send us your questions and comments at drtonianddraimee@gmail.com
Thanks to Jeff Jeudy for providing the music!