"From her student years at Radcliffe College where she volunteered with the Black Panthers to provide sickle cell disease screening in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, to her work on HIV prevention when she was on the faculty of the University of Zimbabwe, to her pioneering role on AIDS care in Africa as the Rockefeller Foundation's point person on health equity, to her tenure as the commissioner of health for both New York City and New York State,"
"Yet in mid-December of last year, the school's dean, Andrea Baccarelli-more on him later-suddenly told Bassett that he was removing her as director of FXB. It was abrupt, unceremonious, and cruel. But cruelty is the point nowadays, isn't it? Harvard's decision has sent shock waves through the international public health and academic communities. Over 2,000 colleagues have signed a petition calling for Bassett's reinstatement. Leaders like Jocalyn Clark, international editor of The BMJ, one of the world's most influential medical journals, called it"
Mary Bassett has a long and distinguished public health career, including sickle cell screening work in Boston, HIV prevention in Zimbabwe, pioneering AIDS care in Africa, and serving as New York City and State health commissioner. In 2018 Bassett became director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In mid-December the school's dean Andrea Baccarelli abruptly removed Bassett as director of FXB. The removal was abrupt, unceremonious, and widely condemned, with over 2,000 colleagues petitioning for reinstatement. Bassett was pushed out because of her insistence on highlighting the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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