Indómitas: Live Podcast
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2021
6pm (PST) Via Facebook Live
Join us for the live monthly podcast, Indómitas, hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring untamable voices of fierce women artists and activists. This month, Chelis speaks with Alicia Fernandez, M.D., a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Indómitas will be available for viewing on Facebook Live. To watch live, simply tune into Brava Facebook Live or Indómitas Facebook Live on Friday, March 19 at 6pm (PST).
Please note that the live podcast will be conducted in Spanish.
This is a FREE community event supported by donations. To make a donation to Brava/Indómitas, please click the button below.
ABOUT ALICIA FERNANDEZ, M.D.
Alicia Fernandez, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF and a general internist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Fernandez is the founding Director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence, an initiative to increase academic diversity. Dr. Fernandez directs the Latinx and Immigrant Health Research Program at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations which generates actionable research to increase health equity and reduce health disparities in at-risk populations in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, and nationally.
Her commitment to social justice strengthened after college, when she worked as an activist for immigrant populations and with those affected by HIV/AIDS. She found that by becoming a physician she could help give underrepresented people a voice in determining their health.
Dr. Fernandez' research expertise includes language and literacy barriers in health care, health care equity in chronic disease, and racism in medicine.
Dr. Fernandez wrote recently in CalMatters how Covid has exposed the state’s need for more Black and Latinx physicians. She’s hopeful that the role she and others have played in influencing Covid policy will teach an enduring lesson.
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Alicia Fernandez es profesora de Medicina en UCSF e internista general en el Hospital General Zuckerberg San Francisco. Es directora fundadora del UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence una iniciativa para aumentar la diversidad académica. La Dra. Fernández dirige el Programa de Investigación de Salud para Latinos e Inmigrantes en el Centro de UCSF para Poblaciones Vulnerables, que genera investigación procesable para aumentar la equidad en la salud y reducir las disparidades en la salud en poblaciones en riesgo en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco, California, y a nivel nacional.
Trabajar como activista después de la universidad para poblaciones inmigrantes y con personas afectadas por el VIH / SIDA fortaleció su compromiso con la justicia social. Se dio cuenta que convertirse en médica podría brindarle herramientas valiosas para ayudar a que las personas subrepresentadas tengan voz en la determinación de su salud.
La experiencia en investigación de la Dra. Fernández incluye barreras de lenguaje y alfabetización en la atención médica, equidad en la atención médica en enfermedades crónicas y racismo en la medicina.
Fernández escribió recientemente en CalMatters cómo Covid ha expuesto la necesidad del estado de más médicos negros y latinos. Tiene la esperanza de que el papel que ella y otros han desempeñado para influir en la política de Covid sea una lección duradera.
ABOUT INDÓMITAS
Indómitas is a live podcast series hosted by Chelis López of KPOO and Radio Bilingüe, featuring interviews with fierce women artists and activists
Each month in Brava’s Cabaret,* Indómitas will interview female singers, writers, poets, activists, artists, journalists, filmmakers, and others – some well-known and some deserving to be – for live broadcast. These 60-minute conversations will cover the women’s stories of achievement, pitfalls, and hopes for their futures.
Be ready for open and honest conversations, where intimacy fosters the sharing of joy, fear, acceptance, and ultimately, the strength of women. It’s our time to be the ones who narrate our stories of who we are, what we do, what matters to us and how we organized and stand up for our rights.
*This event is currently online only, and will return to an in-person event once it is safe to do so.