2020 News

Street Medicine Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Street Medicine Practice during the COVID-19 Pandemic  March 19, 2020  Copyright 2020 Board of Directors, Street Medicine Institute. All rights reserved.  We are erring on the side of communicating quickly, rather than perfectly. Please check back for updates and corrections as our knowledge of best practices evolves.  The Street Medicine Institute Board of Directors   Summary  [...]

July 2nd, 2020|

Doctors Without Walls Was Built For This

Doctors Without Walls Was Built For This BY SAM WATERSTONE | June 29, 2020 Posted by the Santa Barbara Foundation  According to the 2020 Point in Time Count for Santa Barbara County, 613 people were experiencing chronic homelessness as of January 2020, a 45 percent surge from 2019. Since then, the economic fallout from the [...]

July 2nd, 2020|

Doctors Without Walls Alumni Spotlight 2020

EVMS Street Health: A Community Engaged Learning Initiative This video doc features one of our formal volunteer coordinators Andy Abayan, currently attending Eastern Virginia Medical School. Through the Community-Engaged Learning initiative called Street Health, EVMS students learn and serve people in need. Street Health launched during the 2018-19 school year, led by Andy Abayan, [...]

July 1st, 2020|

DWW supports Black Lives Matter

Black Lives Matter Statement  June 23, 2020  To our Doctors Without Walls Family and our wonderful Santa Barbara Community:  We believe that the color of one’s skin should not impact an individual’s ability to lead a healthy and safe life. We stand against the structural inequities that disproportionately affect the Black, Latinx and other “person [...]

June 27th, 2020|

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