- Health Activists Meet the Moment: Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action
President Trump’s various executive orders and actions since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, have disrupted the work of federal workers, educators, and healthcare workers. These attacks, in turn, have also made immigrants, people of color, women, poor people, and queer and trans people more vulnerable to danger. As we near the end of the first hundred days of President Trump’s second term, the Sigerist Circle gathers health activists from the realms of medicine, public health, public policy and education to take stock of the recent attacks on health and healthcare. Panelists on this roundtable will share their perspective on the crisis, offer examples of how they and others are responding to the political moment, and provide proposals on what ought to be done.
Roundtable Panelists:
Jason Chernesky, The Organization of American Historians' Federal Employees and Contractors Oral History Project
Jason E. Glenn, The Consortium for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences in Medical Education (CHASSME)
Gregg Gonsalves, Defend Public Health
Tiffany Joseph, Author of Not All In: Race, Immigration, and Healthcare Exclusion in the Age of Obamacare
Nancy Krieger, Organizer, Data Preservation Hackathons
Jocelyn Sargent, The American Medical Association's Center for Health Equity
