Brown Alpert Med School Residents Holding March for Health Equity for Black Lives on Sunday

Sunday, June 14, 2020

 

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Medical residents at the Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University have organized a march calling for health equity for black lives.

The #CodeBlackRI event will take place in Providence at noon on Sunday. 

Sponsored by the Brown Minority Housestaff Association, the march is stepping off from Rhode Island Hospital at 593 Eddy Street and concluding at the Rhode Island State House.

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"The Brown Minority Housestaff Association and members of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University community will march in support of making our health care system more just and equitable," wrote the Alpert Medical School in their statement. 

Speakers from the medical community will address the disparities when the march stops at the Rhode Island State House.  

About Brown Alpert Med School

Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research.

By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.

 
 

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