Every May, as we recognize Mental Health Awareness month, the global implications of ignoring mental well-being continue to grow.  As early as 1953, the head of the World Health Organization declared that “without mental health there can be no physical health.” Vikram...

Imagine you're a young person who left or was forced out of your family home due to factors such as abject poverty, violence and abuse, or family conflict. With limited education, a lack of an extended family to turn to, and minimal resources, you find yourself...

Peers play a critical role in supporting young people living with HIV as they navigate the HIV care continuum. Peer mentors, educators, or navigators, are young people of a similar age with shared lived experiences, such as being HIV positive, pregnant during...

Every year, the month of February is American Heart Month, a campaign to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the United States during a Valentine’s Day season associated with hearts and all things red. But this risk does not end...

Mount Sinai hosted the first annual AMPATH Kenya Adolescent Health Summit February 6-8 in Eldoret, Kenya. Multidisciplinary partners from across the Consortium gathered to discuss and set priorities for adolescent health in this region of Kenya. Anchored around the...

Impact. We all want to have an impact, an effect or influence on the people we meet, programs we create, or work we do. My residency program director, the late Carey Chisholm, MD, often talked of impact in the context of academic medicine: an opportunity to multiply...