Meet the Harvard medical student fighting for Indigenous health access, representation

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There are only 3,400 Native American physicians nationwide, according to the American Medical Association.

August 09, 2022, 6:45 PMCourtesy Victor Lopez-Carmen

Lopez-Carmen can trace his exposure to activism back to his early childhood on the Pascua Yaqui reservation, attending its Boys and Girls Club while his mother worked for the tribe's Yoemem Tekia Foundation. Victor Lopez-Carmen at his kindergarten graduation , Victor Lopez Carmen speaks at the Harvard Medical School White Coat Ceremony.Now, Lopez-Carmen is leading his own protests and movements, becoming a spokesperson for his generation as a recent co-chair of the United Nations Indigenous Youth Caucus.

Lopez-Carmen ultimately had to travel back across the border to receive the care he needed, ending up at a burn center in Phoenix. He was incapacitated in a hospital bed for over a month while he recovered.

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