Join a community of healthcare advocates at a Morning with ABH on August 24th at Minneapolis Institute of Art.

ABH volunteers celebrated Juneteenth with community members at the 6th annual Roseville Juneteenth.

Growing into confident advocates: the 2023-24 Public Health Advocacy fellows reflected on lessons learned and key takeaways at our closing session.

ABH | The Foundation is proud to announce the recipient of the 2023 Charles Bolles Bolles-Rogers Award, Dr. James Leatherman, a master clinician and educator.

ABH hosted a screening of Ayomide Ojebuoboh’s film “We Belong: Navigating Medical School as Black Women.” Learn about an opportunity to support a Black, female medical student and the film.

ABH is honored to be hosting a screening and discussion with the director and cast of We Belong on November 8th.

ABH is excited to learn from and alongside our student and mentor pairs (and trios!) this year. Meet the 2023-2024 cohort of medical student fellows, mentors, and learn about their advocacy area(s) of interest.

Given the rapidly increasing rates of positive COVID-19 cases and transmission in the United States, and more recently in Minnesota, Advocates for Better Health highly recommends individuals and institutions re-establish or consider re-establishing public health precautions to minimize the spread of infectious disease.

Youth focused clinics improve how the medical community cares for young people by expanding the services provided to meet the growing and changing needs of youth across generations. Learn about how youth clinics have changed in the past 50 years.

On August 18, 2023, 176 first year University of Minnesota Medical Students received their White Coat in a ceremony designed to acknowledge this rite of passage into the field of medicine and inspire learners to embrace this journey with humility and privilege. ABH has been honored to be part of this prestigious ceremony for the past nearly 20 years. ABH President Zeke McKinney, MD, MHI, MPH, welcomed the students into the profession of medicine and shared the power our language can have in shaping our perspectives as well as the health of individual patients and our communities.

Did you know that, according to Rainbow Health Initiative’s 2021 Voices of Health Survey, 13% of LGBTQIA+ respondents in Minnesota were NOT out to their clinical care team? That 57% have had to teach their clinicians about the care they need? And that 23% didn’t get care in the past year because they feared being disrespected or mistreated?  It’s not that we, as clinicians, want that to be the case. We want our patients to feel welcomed in our clinics. We want our patients to feel that their care is competent and informed. It can be a lot to remember everything we need to know to have everyone feel cared for. I get it. So I’m going to take you through some of what we have done and some of what we wish we could do to make all of our patients feel welcome.

On August 12th, ABH had the pleasure of tabling at the second annual Live Your Health Lyfe block party, an event in North Minneapolis designed to elevate the quality of life for residents through mental, physical and spiritual wellness offerings. We always enjoy and are grateful for the opportunity to engage with community members, share resources, and discuss the realities of commercial tobacco.

“Transgender people often face barriers to accessing health care due to a lack of accessible and competent providers,” we were told. The words were framed in such a way that implied an impossibility that “they” could be sitting in the lecture hall alongside us, the medical students. And yet, there I was. And I wasn’t even the only one.

Advocates for Better Health proudly offers a unique and free CME/CE opportunity from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine to Minnesota clinicians and staff.

Healthcare providers play a critical role in protecting and improving the health of communities. In addition to participating in programs that screen for, prevent, and manage a range of health conditions, healthcare providers inform and influence healthcare system policies and practices that affect population health. The Community Guide is a valuable resource for evidence-based intervention approaches that healthcare providers can use to improve health in their communities.