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Victor A. Lopez-Carmen
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Healthcare Contributor, Forbes
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Biography
Victor A. Lopez-Carmen, MPH, is a Dakota and Yaqui writer, health advocate, and student at Harvard Medical School. He is a member of Boston’s COVID-19 Health Inequities Task Force, and Co-Chair of the UN Global Indigenous Youth Caucus. His commentary on minority health has been featured in the BBC, The Boston Globe, Teen Vogue, and the UN News Centre.
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By Victor A. Lopez-Carmen| Forbes Verified Annually on the third Friday of March, after years of grueling exams and countless hours of studying, medical students in their final year of medical school find out what U.S. physician-residency programs they matched with.
By Victor A. Lopez-Carmen| Forbes Verified Indigenous Nations have long understood the importance of nurturing a child's physical, mental, cultural and spiritual health from the very beginning of life. Take the powerful Dakota Nation, for example. Centuries before the founding of the United States, Dakota babies had access to these vital elements of well-being. Dakota babies were born to mothers who consumed food directly from the earth or through hunting animals.
By Victor A. Lopez-Carmen| Forbes Verified In the UFC octagon, Indigenous fighters like Alex Pereira, Payton Talbot, Max Holloway, Tai Tuivasa, Tyson Pedro and others are giving Indigenous youth around the world a reason to dream big and build healthier futures. Take Alex Pereira, a proud member of Brazil’s Pataxó Indigenous Nation who is a former UFC Middleweight champion and the current UFC Light Heavyweight champion.
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