I was the only girl on that Little League team and the only minority, and I was determined not to be a benchwarmer.
Author: Dr. Oxiris Barbot
With more than 25 years of experience in public health and health care delivery, Dr. Oxiris Barbot has dedicated her career to achieving health equity and was named New York City’s Health Commissioner last December, becoming the first Latina and first Puerto Rican to lead the city’s Health Department. She is a pediatrician who was born in the Bronx and previously served as medical director for New York City’s schools and Baltimore’s health commissioner from 2010 to 2014. She was the chief of pediatrics and community medicine at a health clinic in Washington, D.C. She is also, of course, a lifelong Yankees fan.
We Can Reduce Disparities in Maternal Mortality by Listening to Women of Color
A critical step toward narrowing the racial gap in maternal health outcomes is deceptively simple: We must listen to and trust women of color.