Social Justice as Part of the Remedy for What Ails Us New center in Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion focuses on issues in health care June 03, 2021 | Scott LaFee; Mario Aguilera
News release
Eliminating racial inequity demands empathy and compassion, but also social justice.
The newest center within the T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion at UC San Diego will have that focus, created to identify, understand and resolve social justice issues in health care that primarily affect racial and ethnic minorities, women, LGBTQ and under-privileged communities.
“Across this country and throughout society, we face extraordinary challenges regarding racial injustice, especially those impacting marginalized members of our communities,” said Gentry Patrick, PhD, a professor of neurobiology in the Division of Biological Sciences and the newly named director of the Center for Empathy and Social Justice in Human Health within the Sanford In