Bram Wispelwey, MD, MPH, MS
Public Health Physician
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
Learn more about Bram's work:
Roadblocks to Cancer Care in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
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
Prolonged Boarding and Racial Discrimination and Dissatisfaction Among Emergency Department Patients
Civilian mortality and damage to medical facilities in Gaza
‘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
Towards a bidirectional decoloniality in academic global health: insights from settler colonialism and racial capitalism
Because its power remains naturalized: introducing the settler colonial determinants of health
Association Between Racial Wealth Inequities and Racial Disparities in Longevity Among US Adults and Role of Reparations Payments, 1992 to 2018
Community Health Worker Program Outcomes for Diabetes and Hypertension Control in West Bank Refugee Camps: A Retrospective Matched Cohort Study
The Racial Capitalism of Care
Boston Review: An Antiracist Agenda for Medicine
A Longitudinal Case-Based Global Health Curriculum for the Medical Student Clerkship Year
Political censorship in academic journals sets a dangerous new precedent
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
Permission to Narrate a Pandemic in Palestine
Structural violence in the era of a new pandemic: the case of the Gaza Strip