Optional Readings
Please send your Program Director any additional readings you’d like to add here as a resource for other students.
Medicaid/Health Insurance
Couples say they can’t get married because of this government program’s outdated rules, NPR
Millions Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Due to New Rules, RWJF
Getting ready for new Medicaid enrollment rules: Lessons from the Camden Coalition’s ongoing Redetermination outreach work and rapid “A/B” testing, Camden Coalition
Advocacy
Art & Health
AI (Artificial Intelligence)
Immigration
Public Health
Assault on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—Budget Cuts, Political Control, and the Erosion of Trust, JAMA – Critique of MAHA plan regarding CDC
The Public Health Damage—and Personal Toll—of Federal Worker Layoffs, JAMA – Impact of government layoffs on public health
BTG Presenter Suggestions
Writing for Advocacy, Mara Gordon, MD
- The Nocturnists Podcast
- Poetry by Dr. William Carlos Williams
- Book recommendations:
- Final Exam, A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality, by Pauline W. Che
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande
- Black Man in a White Coat: A Doctor’s Reflections on Race and Medicine, by Damon Tweedy
- Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner, by Judy Melinek and T.J. Mitchell
Photo Journal Project Overview, Rosie Frasso, PhD
- John Collier & The Nova Scotia Farmers
- Jennifer True, From War to Home
- Action Research Model (Lewin): Basics and an Example
- Life during the pandemic: an international photo-elicitation study with medical students
Geremi James, MSW, LSW
- Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear, and rage, by Walter Bradford Cannon
- The support-control continuum: An investigation of staff perspectives on factors influencing the success or failure of de-escalation techniques for the management of violence and aggression in mental health settings, Pub Med
- Childhood trauma, the neurobiology of adaptation, and “use-dependent” development of the brain: How “states” become “traits”, Wiley Online Library
Art as Advocacy, Paul Farber, PhD
Mandated Reporter, Mario Cruz, MD
MAHA Report, Tony Rostain, MD, MA & Paul Offit, MD
Cardiovascular Health in the Community, Anthony Singleton, Educators 4 Education
Humor & Trauma, Kelli Dunham
Tobacco Free Policy and Smoking Cessation Ryan Coffman, MPH, CHES, CTTS-M
- To submit questions for Ryan or see resources, check Assignments page on BTG website
André Robert Lee, Filmmaker, Many Things Productions
Refugee Health in Philadelphia, Marc Altshuler, MD
Reproductive Rights, Kimberly Mutcherson, JD
- Reproductive Justice Slides
- Torn Apart, by Dorothy Roberts
- Michelle Browder, Mothers of Gynecology (BTG Symposium Speaker 2026)
The Power of Resilience-based, Trauma-Sensitive, Strength Focused Communication in Working with Youth, Ken Ginsburg, MD
