Commentary
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GDP has Immense Consequences for Health Equity: Why Doctors Should Care
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Natalia Khosla ‘22 is a MS 4 at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. She can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected]. During one of my medical rotations, my team and I were taking care of a patient stuck in a vicious cycle: a 68-year-old with heart failure,…
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Gender Based Violence — Can Self-Help Groups be Effective?
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Vivek Kumar is a 2021 Graduate student from the Harris School of Public Policy. His policy interests lie around gender based empowerment in South Asia. “Even if I work outside as a laborer and bring home 200 rupees every day, I will still get a beating from my husband in…
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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI): Let’s Move from Pamphlet to Practice
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Kristen Mathias is an Internal Medicine Resident at the University of Chicago. She can be reached at [email protected]. Daniel Cabrera is a faculty member in the University of Washington Department of Medicine and contributed to this article. The medical field has an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) problem that is…
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Juneteenth & Transitional Justice: A National Reckoning
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David Alan Johnson is a second-year MPP student and Pearson Fellow at the Harris School of Public Policy and Research Assistant at the Transitional Justice and Democratic Stability Lab at the University of Chicago. As the United States celebrates Juneteenth, a holiday commemorating enslaved African-Americans learning of their freedom from…
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Inaugural University of Chicago Juneteenth Commemoration
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The inaugural UC Juneteenth 2021 initiative comes in the wake of a global pandemic that exposed widespread health inequities in marginalized communities, political tumult, demand for an end to police brutality, and an overall resurgence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It is thus fitting that this political celebration of…
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No Amount of Training Can Prevent Police Brutality
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Marvin Slaughter contributed to this piece. The killing of 13-year-old Adam Toledo by officers of the Chicago Police Department (CPD) has led to renewed calls for improved police training. But no amount of training can fix the institution of policing; we need an entirely new system and organization to build…
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Yellow Phone Booth
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With promising advances in the COVID-19 vaccination effort and a new administration in the White House, 2021 has felt hopeful for many reasons. For me, an Iranian-American immigrant who has maintained an emotionally split home for the past eighteen years, the new administration’s approach to foreign policy is particularly exciting…
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The Student Debt Crisis
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The time to pass universal student loan forgiveness is now. To date, more than 45 million current and former students are burdened with student debt, with collective debt exceeding $1.6 trillion. The current global pandemic has only exacerbated this crisis, and Black and brown students bear the brunt of this…
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Over-Criminalized & Under-Resourced
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The murders of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Elijah McClain have drawn national attention to policing issues throughout the U.S. One reform in the wake of these murders that is gaining attention is the Counseling Not Criminalization Act. This act proposes schools to replace school resource officers (SRO) with psychologists,…
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The Case for Puerto Rican Self-Determination
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On February 3, 2020, I stood outside the Drake University building where one of the Iowa Caucuses was taking place. That morning, I had driven up from Humboldt Park, Chicago, squeezed into a rental van with a group of four other members of the Puerto Rican Agenda of Chicago, an…
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The Coffee Cup and Plastic Straw
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Introduction: A regular day in the life of an American Jennifer is on her way to work when she makes her daily stop at the local coffee shop in Chicago to pick up her iced coffee for the day, served in a coffee cup with a single-use plastic straw. As…