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Bio

Dr. Bram Wispelwey is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Senior Technical Lead at Partners In Health United States. Bram is Co-founder of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment and creative integration with existing facilities.

Bram’s research and writing focuses on race-conscious approaches to address racial inequities in medicine, community health worker impact, and settler colonial determinants of health. Before the start of his medical career, he pursued LGBT-rights activism, which informed his health approach at the bedside and in advocacy.

Professional Interests & Expertise

Education,Healthcare Innovation and Transformation,Indigenous Health,Racial Equity

Organization

Health for Palestine

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    Learn more about Bram's work:

    Publication

    Building decolonial nursing curricula to address disparities in Indigenous women's maternal health

    Publication

    Roadblocks to Cancer Care in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

    Research Article

    Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023

    Research Article

    Prolonged Boarding and Racial Discrimination and Dissatisfaction Among Emergency Department Patients

    Editorial

    Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza

    Journal Article

    ‘Nowhere and no one is safe’: spatial analysis of damage to critical civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip during the first phase of the Israeli military campaign, 7 October to 22 November 2023

    Viewpoint

    Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism

    Journal Article

    Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health

    Journal Article

    Association Between Racial Wealth Inequities and Racial Disparities in Longevity Among US Adults and Role of Reparations Payments, 1992 to 2018

    Journal Article

    Community Health Worker Program Outcomes for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in West Bank Refugee Camps: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study

    Video Presentation

    The Racial Capitalism of Care

    Article

    Boston Review: An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine

    Journal Article

    A Longitudinal Case-Based Global Health Curriculum for the Medical Student Clerkship Year

    Opinion Piece

    Political censorship in academic journals sets a dangerous new precedent

    White Paper

    Annual Primary Care 2030 Convening: Creating an Enabling Ecosystem for Person-Centered Primary Healthcare Models to Achieve Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

    Article

    Permission to Narrate a Pandemic in Palestine

    Journal Article

    Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip

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