“Health inequalities and the social determinants of health are not a footnote to the determinants of health. They are the main issue.”

Dr.Michael Marmot
Professor of Epidemiology & Author

Meet Zamir M. Brown, our Community Star of the week!

Zamir works in the United States, to leverage Medicaid and other policies to improve the health of low-income and underserved communities and ameliorate health disparities.

In this post, Zamir share shares his passion for public health by providing responses to the following questions:

What does public health mean to you?

Public health is the practice of alleviating social risk factors and promoting social protective factors in communities to overcome systemic barriers that impede the ability to actualize health potential and health equity.

What work do you do in public health?

Operating in the United States of America, I research, analyze, and advocate for methods that address the social determinants of health and health-related social needs.

I mainly focus on how to leverage Medicaid and other policies to improve the health of low-income and underserved communities and ameliorate health disparities.

What is your global health message?

To ensure the health of the nation and the world, as a collective, we must work closely together in innovative ways to explicitly address the social determinants of health.

To protect and promote our nation’s health, we must strengthen our public health infrastructure through adequate funding and the proper allocation of resources.

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