Martin Donohoe

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Martin Donohoe

Martin Donohoe, MD, FACP runs the Public Health and Social Justice website at http://www.publichealthandsocialjustice or http://www.phsj.org (where you can find his articles, open-access Powerpoint slide shows, syllabi, and links to over 1,000 progressive organizations), hosts the cable access television program Prescription for Justice at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJt34I9c5vT2RpZtkg6Im2A/videos (also available as a podcast from KBOO radio at https://www.kboo.fm/program/prescription-justice), is the author of the Public Health and Social Justice Reader (2013; Jossey Bass/Wiley, see https://phsj.org/public-health-and-social-justice-reader/), and practices internal medicine. He serves on the Board of Advisors of Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and was Chief Scientific Advisor to Oregon PSR’s Campaign for Safe Foods. He received his BS and MD from UCLA, completed internship and residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University. Martin has taught courses in medical humanities, public health, social justice ethics, women’s studies, and the history of medicine at UCLA, UCSF, Stanford, OHSU, Clark College and Portland State. He writes and frequently lectures on literature and medicine and social justice in public health.

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