Abhi Kole

Abhi Kole is a fellow at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health, Equity, Action, and Leadership (HEAL) Initiative. He practices hospital medicine at UCSF and is currently working alongside Navajo colleagues in Tuba City, Arizona. He is interested in the structural causes of health inequity.

A mural warns residents of the danger of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on the Navajo reservation, in Shiprock, New Mexico, U.S., April 8, 2020. Picture shows an amazing mural of a man wearing a mask painted on the side of a wall. REUTERS/Andrew Hay
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Coronavirus in the Navajo Nation—From Charity to Solidarity

by Jack Fukushima, Abhi Kole, Sangeeta Tripathi, Cristina Rivera Carpenter, Sriram Shamasunder 

Why we need to re-center the narrative around working with indigenous peoples in the Navajo Nation and other communities