Awesome news from Planned Parenthood Federation of America via kate zernike of The New York Times : Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency room doctor whose family fled #China when she was a child, has been chosen as the organization's next president. Wen won praise for her steadying hand as #Baltimore 's health commissioner during the city’s protests in 2015. Dr. Wen, 35, grew up poor in Compton, Calif., after her family left China following the Tiananmen Square massacre just before her eighth birthday. She relied on #Medicaid as a child, and in nearly four years in Baltimore has drawn acclaim for working with corporations and churches to close racial disparities in health care and sharply reducing infant mortality. This caps an incredibly enlightening day for me, following DC Mayor Muriel Bowser 's Maternal and Infant Health Summit. Momentum seems to be building for around health care access and equity issues. #WorldContraceptionDay #maternalhealth #infanthealth #MomhealthDC #maternalmortality #Infantmortality #immigrants #Immigration #healthequity #healthcareaccess
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