How can health professions students understand the impacts of life circumstances on health? Each summer, students of medicine and other health disciplines imbed in an array of community organizations in cities in Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey as part of a seven-week program known as...
When I began making This Too Is Healthcare: Bridging the Gaps, I thought I understood something about the American healthcare system. Like most people, I knew it from the perspective of a patient or a citizen reading headlines about costs, policy debates, and inequities. But I had never seen what...
On October 6, 2025, we premiered This Too is Healthcare, a feature-length documentary that captures the essence of Bridging the Gaps. Directed by André Robert Lee and narrated by Wendell Pierce, the film explores what happens when healthcare professionals step beyond the clinic and into the lived...
Join students, alumni, community partners, and more at the 2026 Symposium of Bridging the Gaps. Featuring an interactive poster session, dedication of the Frances Ola Walker Bridging the Gaps Award, and a keynote address from Michelle Browder, founder of Mothers of Gynecology.
