PHIMG Coalition - Grassroot voices demanding Medicare For All!

 

Location: Bohemian Hall, 29-19 24th Avenue between 31st and 29th Streets in Astoria. Take the N or Q train to Astoria Blvd.  When you leave the train station,   walk north to 24th Avenue and turn left.   The building will be on your right. 

 

Dr Mary O'Brien is a primary care physician at Columbia University who has been practicing medicine in NYC for the past 30 years and has been  a strong advocate for single payer health care through her work with  NY Metro Physicians for a National Health Program.

Ajamu Sankofa, Esq. is a co-founder and chair of the Private Health Insurance Must Go! Coalition, a NYC-based grassroots organization demanding a national single-payer healthcare system. He also coordinates the Urban Leadership Program at the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies/CUNY and is a graduate instructor in urban affairs at Queens College. Mr. Sankofa is a former trial lawyer with the ACLU National Prison Project where he wrote the first model HIV Prevention Policy in the nation for incarcerated youth while representing prisoners throughout the United States on their conditions of confinement.

Mark Hannay is Director of the Metro New York Health Care for All Campaign, a citywide coalition of community groups and labor unions founded in 1993 that advocates for fundamental health care reform leading to a universal health care program. Mark began his health activist career in the early 1990s as a member of the Insurance and Health Care Access Committee of ACT UP/New York.  Since 2002, Mark has also co-hosted the weekly “Health Action” program broadcast over WBAI/Pacifica radio.  He is also a member of the Steering Committee of “Health Care for All New York”, a consortium of groups across New York State working for state-based health care reform.  He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.

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