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Vision Statement
As a Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care online publication, Perspectives in Primary Care promotes health equity and the value of primary care. We fulfill this vision by highlighting recent medical research, providing guidance on topics relating to primary care, and through narrative medicine. Our publication is made up of voices from all around the world—those who are clinicians, activists, community members, and patients. We rely on their perspectives to shine light on topics that may otherwise remain unseen or misunderstood.
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About Perspectives in Primary Care
This publication started early during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 as the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care blog. In fall of 2021, the blog was formalized into an online publication called the Primary Care Review with Dr. Rebekah Rollston as the inaugural Editor-in-Chief. The editorial team cultivated articles meant for a general audience that included but was not limited to medical and public health professionals, using storytelling to promote primary care, health equity, and community health. Under new leadership in 2023, the Primary Care Review became Perspectives in Primary Care, the new name chosen as a reflection of an ongoing commitment to publishing works that promote health equity by highlighting innovation and learning through stories told by diverse voices.
Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
- Zoe Agoos, MD, Family Medicine Physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, Clinical Instructor at the Tufts School of Medicine, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Dept. Of Global Health and Social Medicine
Managing Editor
- Katie Cavender, MBA, Assistant Director of Marketing and Communications, Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
Associate Editors
- Leena Ambady, Harvard Medical School
- Tomas Aramburu, Harvard Medical School
Scholarship Specialists
- Harjot Badwal, Boston University
- Ananya Tadikonda, Harvard Medical School
Editorial Advisory Board
- Wynne Armand, MD, physician at Mass General Brigham, Assistant Professor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Director of the Mass General Brigham Center for the Environment and Health
- Deb Cohen, PhD, Professor of Family Medicine at the Oregon Health & Science University School Biomedical Informatics Graduate Program and School of Medicine
- Renee Crichlow, FAAFP, MD, Chief Medical Officer at Codman Square Health Center, and Vice-chair of Health Equity, Boston University Department of Family Medicine
- Katherine Gergen Barnett, MD, Vice Chair of Primary Care Innovation and Transformation at Boston Medical Center, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Health Innovator Fellow at the Aspen Institute, and Faculty Affiliate at Harvard Center for Primary Care
- Suzanne Koven, MD, MFA, Associate Professor of Medicine and Co-Director of the Harvard Medical School Media and Medicine Certificate Program, Lecturer on Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Writer-in-Residence at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston
- Katherine (Kathe) Miller, MD, Family Physician at the Windsor Street Health Center at Cambridge Health Alliance, Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Director of the Program in Family Medicine at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care
- LaShyra (Lash) Nolen, MD, Internal Medicine Resident at Brigham Department of Global Medicine, and Founder of We Got Us
- Daniel Palazuelos, MD, MPH, Director of Harvard Medical School Office for Community Centered Medical Education, Assistant Director of the Hiatt Global Health Equity Residency at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Director of Community Health Systems at Partners In Health
- Claire-Cecile Pierre, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Community Health at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Instructor in Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School
- Robert (Bob) Phillips, MD, MSPH, Family Physician, Executive Director of the Center for Professionalism & Value in Health Care, American Board of Family Medicine, and Clinical Professor at Georgetown University
- Russell Phillips, MD, Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care and the William Applebaum Professor of Medicine and Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and General Internist at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
