Voices in Advocacy: Dr. Thuy Bui

On the prompt of advocacy

“In medical education we think of advocacy as professional obligation and skills to acquire. I think of advocacy as intuitive and a natural extension of our work as physicians. When we advocate, we become bigger than one person or collection of individuals; we become part of a global community that stands for justice, integrity and peace. When we advocate, we commit to eliminating societal causes of health inequities, and we stand beside those who are voiceless, vulnerable, marginalized, disenfranchised. When we advocate, we step away from neutrality. When we advocate, we recapture medicine's social contract with society.”

-Dr. Thuy Bui

Associate Professor of Medicine 
  Director, Social Medicine Fellows Program