Topic: women’s health
Your Friendly Neighborhood Women’s Health Influencer
Main Line OB-GYN Karen Tang has almost 700,000 followers for her must-watch, science-based and hilarious TikToks and IG takes on reproductive health
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Fight Misogyny, Keep Your Neighbors Safe
Women Against Abuse’s executive director on what we all can do to protect women — and men — from domestic violence amidst the Trump-era surge in disturbing and dangerous rhetoric
By Joanna Otero-Cruz
The Abortion Divide Isn’t as Deep as We Think
Voters across the political spectrum prove what a Philly reproductive psychologist knows to be true: Americans believe access to abortion is an important right.
By Alexis Zollo
Medical Malpractice Reform … Again
Twenty years ago, the Commonwealth dug itself out of a crisis that put new mothers at risk of illness or death. Signs of trouble are back in Pennsylvania, which could look to California and other states for a solution
By Malcolm Burnley
Ali Velshi on Abortion Bans and Black women
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member fights the racist, paternalistic propaganda that abortion is "Black genocide." It is vital healthcare
By Ali Velshi
Ala Stanford’s Advice For Kamala Harris
The Philly doctor became a household name for her efforts to give Black Philadelphians access to Covid testing and vaccines. Here, she talks about her new book on her fight for equity in medicine — and what she’d hope to see from a Harris presidency
By Courtney DuChene
Winx Health
While women’s reproductive health is under attack across the country, a Philly company supported by actress Kerry Washington aims to destigmatize and demystify women’s sexual health products
By Courtney DuChene
When Women Say It Hurts
The “gender pain gap” leaves women to needlessly suffer. Here’s what that means — and what hospitals can do about it
By Christina Griffith
Her Body, Her (Beautiful) Self
The three-year-old Body Empowerment Project has helped students in 17 Philadelphia schools accept — and embrace — their physical selves this year. Support their work at their year-end party on April 25
By Natalie Pompilio
Ali Velshi on the Need for DEI in Medicine
The MSNBC anchor and Citizen Board member on why hospitals — and Congress — must address the health care crisis of Black Americans.
By Ali Velshi