Author Archives: Elena Rosenbaum, Marva Richards, Andrea Gordon

About Elena Rosenbaum, Marva Richards, Andrea Gordon

Elena Rosenbaum, MD is Director of Primary Health at Circulo Health and a practicing family physician, fellowship-trained in Integrative Medicine. Elena is the Medical Director at Healthy Alliance, an upstate NY organization focused on coordinating social, behavioral, and clinical services to enable people to lead healthy lives and reduce health disparities. Elena is an Associate Professor at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at Albany Medical College and a faculty member for the Samueli Foundation and FMEC Integrative Health Learning Collaborative, an initiative geared toward implementing Integrative Health using the HOPE toolkit. Through the years, Elena has collaborated with several community organizations and was a founding board member of Soul Fire Farm, an Afro-Indigenous-centered community farm committed to uprooting racism.

Whole Person Health: A Path to Health Equity (Part 2)

By | April 14, 2022
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In our first blog post of this series, we discussed how the current medical approach misses so much of what influences health, and how it perpetuates health inequities in our society. In this post, we go in-depth on the elements of Whole Person Health (WPH) that are necessary components of a just and equitable approach… Read More »

Whole Person Health: A Path to Health Equity (Part 1)

By | April 11, 2022
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Our current U.S. medical system doesn’t work. It is not able to adequately care for the sickest, most vulnerable, and least resourced people. It often excludes those seen as “other” in our society. To become a just system, we need a new focus on Whole Person Health (WPH). Very briefly, WPH cares for the whole person and… Read More »