Social Medicine Initiative (SMI) strives to consider health outcomes in relation to social, economic and political factors. By bringing together patients, physicians and their families, we consider how kinship relations, structural violence, economic inequality, cultural beliefs, ideologies, and political contexts shape the experience of illness as well as perceptions toward medicine.
At the Social Medicine Initiative, we create frameworks for patient advocacy to ensure that patientsā are prioritized in the process of diagnosis and treatment.
We provide long-term support to patients to help them complete their treatment by developing robust relations and providing medical support to ensure surveillance and compliance.
We hope to shift of language of global health from āinterventionā and āeradicationā to wellbeing of social relations and empathy toward patients.