People Over Profit:

United States

Dr. Ana Malinow spent decades working as a pediatrician with immigrant, refugee and underserved children in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and California. She is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, and lead organizer for the National Single Payer. She has authored opinion pieces on how national single payer will improve patient care and bring us closer to social justice. She has been a speaker on healthcare reform and featured on national and international television and radio. She recently retired as Professor of Pediatrics from the University of California in San Francisco.

United States

Dr. Bita Amani is a social epidemiologist focusing on the relationships between health and politics. She investigates how state-sanctioned disinvestment and violence perpetuate racial inequity through public health crisis and how public health can maintain a system of white supremacy. She prioritizes health promoting solutions, such as the Cuban Health Model, and supports partnerships with grassroots organizations like Stop LAPD Spying Coalition and Youth Justice Coalition. She is an Associate Professor at Charles R. Drew University, leads the UCLA/CDU COVID-19 Racism and Equity Task Force, and co-Directs CDU’s Black Maternal Health Center of Excellence.

United States

Tynetta Hill-Muhammad (they/she) is the Chicago Chapter Organizer for BYP100 and Organizer for Scholars for Social Justice. Her work is rooted in Black, Queer, Feminist and abolitionist organizing, transformative health education initiatives and transnational movement spaces. She truly believes in the power of people's narratives in creating an organizing vision for the future. They teach Stop The Bleed and Street Medic Trainings and work on multiple campaigns across the city. Inspired by collective power and popular education practices, they constantly strive to be accountable to themselves and their community.

United States

Carlos Marroquin is an activist and community leader in Los Angeles. He is the National Director of Food for Health Programs, a Board Member of Urban Partners Los Angeles, and a member of Healthcare for All LA. Marroquin works to strengthen poor and working class communities by expanding food and education programs. He founded Occupy Fights Foreclosures and he was the Lead Organizer of the Bernie Sanders Brigade.

United States

Bill McKibben is an American environmentalist, author, and educator who has written extensively on the impact of global warming. His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change. He has opposed big oil pipeline projects like Keystone XL and supported the fossil fuel divestment campaign. He founded Third Act -a 60 and over organization for action on climate justice- and is a co-founder of the climate campaign group 350.org. Currently he is a Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College.

Cuba

Dr. Tania Crombet Ramos is a medical doctor specializing in immunology. She graduated from the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana (1993) and since 2004, she is Clinical Research Director of the Center of Molecular Immunology of Havana, Cuba, and senior faculty of the Superior Institute of Medical Sciences of Havana. Crombet's main area of expertise consists of cancer immunotherapy (active and passive) and her work has contributed to the registration in Cuba and abroad of a cancer vaccine and a monoclonal antibody for several epithelial tumors. Tania Crombet Ramos is a member of the IAP COVID-19 Expert group.

Moderator

Sameena Rahman is an organizer with the ANSWER Coalition based in Los Angeles, California. As a Muslim growing up in Saudi Arabia, she was first disillusioned by the system in the aftermath of the Iraq war. Through higher education, Rahman learned about issues surrounding immigration, healthcare and much more and was inspired to join the fight against capitalism three years ago. Since then, she has continued her education in biomedical sciences and public health that highlighted the urgency for fighting for health over profit and for the need for a socialist system.