"What PHIWM and regional partners have put together is basically a whole curriculum for us educators to use and empower our students..."

July 19, 2023
Gloria Caballero Roca is a Professor at Bard Micro College, and she serves on the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts' Board of Directors.

Gloria Caballero Roca is a Professor at Bard Micro College, and she serves on the Public Health Institute of Western Massachusetts' Board of Directors.


"I will be teaching a course this fall that´s titled Medical Humanities. The Race and Health Equity Resource Guide will be our main source of resources, data interpretation, and policies that in one way or the other affect the lives of our student population. We work with mostly a Latinx student body, all of whom are young mothers. This is a demographic that is generally highly affected by the social determinants of health; i.e., housing, access to quality education, access to healthcare, healthy food, transportation, etc. What PHIWM and regional partners have put together is basically a whole curriculum for us educators to use and empower our students with the language, the knowledge of the policies, and concepts, that would ultimately prepare them to be agents of change in their own communities." 


Visit the Race and Health Equity Guide to see resources and learn how other people in the region are working to advance race and health equity.


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