Public Voices

The OpEd Project’s Public Voices Fellowship is a national initiative to dramatically increase the public impact of our nation’s top underrepresented thinkers, and to ensure our ideas help shape the important conversations of our age.

We Need to Start Talking More About Advanced Care Planning

King Charles III’s thoughtful resumption of royal duties, months after his cancer diagnosis sheds light on…

The Reality of PrEP for Black Women: The Provider Disconnect

A recent New York Times article highlighted that of the more than 39 million people living with…

TikTok Ban Needs More Work

President Joe Biden signed into law a requirement for ByteDance to sell TikTok or be banned from…

Global Diversity at the United Nations Security Council

While the world discusses the rising tension in the Middle East due to the recent…

What happens after unionization? On International Workers’ Day, the fight goes on for fair contracts for medical trainees

On April 30, 2023, I received a text from my close friend from medical school,…

Follow up in Higher Ed: Responses to DEI Attacks Require Deep Support

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and access initiatives continue to be under attack in many states, including Illinois, Texas, Florida, Tennessee, as well as…

Nursing burnout is real. Here’s how to reduce It.

“It is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” I crowed and then fell…

Schrodinger’s Race – The Paradox of the MENA Identity

The path to becoming a physician is wrought with standardized testing — from the SAT…

Why Scientific Publishing Culture Needs a Major Overhaul in the age of Generative AI

Scientific publishing and the prevailing “publish or perish” paradigm within academia have long been considered…

Improving Health Outcomes for Indigenous Communities

The buzz around the ten-time Oscar-nominated movie, Killers of the Flower Moon, based on a…

The Weighty Ethics of LillyDirect’s Telehealth Platform

Eli Lilly is partnering with Amazon Pharmacy to offer home delivery of medications, including Zepbound, through the LillyDirect platform—its…

Awards shine spotlight on Asian representation in Hollywood

Asian-made film and TV productions – and their creators and actors – have been collecting…

Teen’s Hair Threatens White Supremacy, not Education

High school student Darryl George has been kept from school, suspended for months because he…

Black Women and Endometriosis

The first endometriosis drug in 40 years may be available within five to seven years.…

What Changed our simple societies over time, and where are we heading?

I enthusiastically listened to the 2024 State of the Union address.  Two ideologies were on…