Social Change and the Practice of Medicine

Harvard HMS

The shootings in Buffalo, NY and Uvalde, TX have been recent examples of how traumatic events can lead to movements of social change. Historically, social change has been an important part of large-scale public health efforts, and often this has been driven by those in the practice of medicine. Physicians and other clinicians have-been important advocates for social change to improve public health. For example, a pediatrician developed the child-proof cap to prevent lethal ingestions of…