Sriram Shamasunder 

Sriram Shamasunder is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and co-founder of the UCSF Health, Equity, Action, and Leadership (HEAL) Initiative. He completed his internal medicine residency at Harbor UCLA. He has worked extensively in Rwanda, Liberia, Haiti, Burundi, and India. Recently, he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship where he studied implementation in resource-poor tribal areas in rural India. In 2010, he was named an Asia 21 fellow as well as the Northern California Young Physician of the Year. 

A mural warns residents of the danger of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on the Navajo reservation, in Shiprock, New Mexico, U.S., April 8, 2020. Picture shows an amazing mural of a man wearing a mask painted on the side of a wall. REUTERS/Andrew Hay
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Coronavirus in the Navajo Nation—From Charity to Solidarity

by Jack Fukushima, Abhi Kole, Sangeeta Tripathi, Cristina Rivera Carpenter, Sriram Shamasunder 

Why we need to re-center the narrative around working with indigenous peoples in the Navajo Nation and other communities