ABH | The Foundation is excited to announce that Britta Dosland, MD, has joined its Board of Directors in September 2024.

ABH | The Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to welcome Michaela Quast, MD, as one of its newest Board members in September 2024.

Meet the 2024-2025 cohort of medical, dental, and health administration students and mentors, and learn about their advocacy area(s) of interest.

ABH community members enjoyed a curated tour of Mia works

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.