Lay Writing
2024
The War on Diversity, Adverse Reaction
2023
Healthcare Worker Unions Are on the Side of Patients, Jacobin
Strike it While It's Hot, Adverse Reaction
Evidence of Absence or Absence of Evidence?, Adverse Reaction
We Need to Talk About Doctors' Politics, Peste Magazine
The Price of 30 Minutes at the Bedside, Peste Magazine
2022
How Drug Stigma Threatens Lives, Peste Magazine
2021
Don't Mock Tree Equity. It Has Health Benefits, Washington Post, Written in Collaboration with Eugenia South, MD
What Lebron James Gets Wrong About Vaccine, Undark Magazine & Men's Health Magazine
Hospitals Need More Than Vaccine Mandates, Boston Review
2020
I’m a foreign medical student. ICE’s new rules on remote courses are devastating, The Washington Post
Free Bikeshare for Essential Workers Amid Coronavirus? Philly Should Follow NYC's plan, Philadelphia Inquirer
Betting on Safety First: A Senior Medical Student on Colleges Reopening and Career Challenges, Inside Higher Education Magazine
At Last, the Medical Profession Speaks Out for Black Lives, Undark Magazine
Covid-19, Georgia and Racial Disparities: Do Black Lives Still Matter, KevinMD
Yes, Liquor Stores Are Essential Businesses, Scientific American, Written in collaboration with Kelsey Priest, PhD
Doctors can’t treat COVID-19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health, The Conversation, Written in collaboration with Bernadette Lim, LaShyra Nolen, Edwin Lindo, JD, Zoë Julian, MD,MPH, Ryan Huerto, MD, and Rachel Hardeman, PhD, MPH
Amid COVID-19, make USMLE Step 1 pass/fail now, KevinMD, Written in Collaboration with Rodrigo Muñoz, MD
Cheers and Jeers as Med School's Step 1 Test Becomes Pass/Fail, Stat News, Written alongside LaShyra Nolen, Orly Nadel Farber, and Anna Goshua
7 Books That Helped Me Find Solace and Define My Purpose as a Black Medical Student, MedHumChat
2019
Has Anyone Asked About that (Black Lives Matter) Pin?, Inside Higher Education Magazine
Lessons to Learn from Reggie: The Importance of Medical Humanities, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column
Wearing My White Coat to The Protest, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column
Who Went to Med School with Northam? How Inertia in the Face of Racism Continues to Hold Medicine Back, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column
2018
Racial Awareness, If You Will, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column
Our Hospitals’ Unsung Heroes, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column
Recency: A New Framework for Fairness and Inclusion in Portraiture at Academic Medical Centers and Beyond, In-Training Magazine, White Coat and a Hoodie Column