Dr. Jessie Fields is Harlem-based physician and teaches at both the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. A native Philadelphian, Dr. Fields has dedicated her career to providing primary care in underserved communities. After working in the Westside of Chicago and Harlem Dr. Fields saw how the social and economic conditions of poverty affect a person’s physical health. To address those problems she took her commitment to community health into the political arena. Dr. Field’s supports primary reform as an approach to breaking down barriers to participation and increasing voter mobility in communities of color.
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