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Dr. Hazel L. Breland to Begin Term as ARHP President

  |  Issue: October 2018  |  

She sees her term as ARHP president as an opportunity to begin to close a representation gap and to help give voice to those who have not been heard.

“I think about the passion I have for equity and inclusion, and I think about what [the first African-American Supreme Court Justice] Thurgood Marshall said: ‘In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.’”

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From Wisconsin, Kelly April Tyrrell writes about health, policy and science.

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