What Public Health Experts Mean When We Say It’s Okay to Protest

A message from the president of Morehouse School of Medicine

Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG
Elemental
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3 min readJun 17, 2020

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“I can’t breathe…”

Three simple words shattered the hearts of millions and opened the sore wounds of millions of others. For many Americans, watching George Floyd take his last breath while in the custody of police officers was…

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Valerie Montgomery Rice, MD, FACOG
Elemental

A renowned infertility specialist & researcher, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice is 6th President of Atlanta’s Morehouse School of Medicine & the 1st woman leader.