Global Health Research & Innovation Speaker Series

Eram Alam
Assistant Professor of the History of Science,Harvard University

"The History and Challenges of Immigrant Physicians in the US Healthcare System"

 

Since the 1960s, the United States has relied on soliciting immigrant physicians to fill vacancies due to the shortage of U.S.-trained doctors. In this talk, Professor Eram Alam will examine the reasons behind this physician migration and how this migratory flow continues to influence US healthcare dynamics. The widespread and essential presence of foreign physicians in the U.S. highlights not only the racial dynamics within the US healthcare system but also illustrates the broader workings of the political economy of healthcare in our globalized era.

Event Moderator:

David S. Jones, MD, PhD,
A. Bernard Ackerman Professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and in the History of Science ;
Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
 

This event is free and open to the public. 

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE
 

Presented by The Harvard Global Health Institute