00:00When I came into medical school, I was in the first cohort of black students, and I think that in itself is one of the first problems that we need to fix to get to that, building that culture of health.
00:10Less than 6% of all physicians in the United States are black.
00:13When you think about what that means, it means that in our own communities, we aren't getting health literacy information from people that look like us, from the people around us.
00:22It means that food deserts exist, and we don't know how to get out of it.
00:26And what I think is really necessary is to get more information out there so that people are better able to take health into their own hands in the black community.
00:36So for me, that's been one of my biggest things that I'm really trying to push forward, increasing diversity by being representation that's out there.
00:42I feel like you can't be what you can't see.
00:44If you don't see someone who looks like you, that's a doctor, that's a physician, that's in any healthcare space, you're not going to be able to feel like you're able to get there as well.
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