Linda Sharp, MD

Linda Sharp, MD, is an internist at Martin Luther King, Jr Community Hospital in South Los Angeles, where she currently chairs the hospital bioethics committee.  At work she tries to provide good quality care and works to build organizational policies and practices that promote health equity and human rights. She has been with Doctors for Global Health for many years, supporting community health work in Mexico, El Salvador and Uganda.  Doctors for Global Health tries to practice “liberation medicine”, the conscious, conscientious use of health to promote social justice and human dignity.  As U.S. based health activists, they work with People’s Health Movement, the Social Medicine Consortium, and the global Campaign Against Racism. She has been a part of the HEAL global health fellowship for several years, and has been an advisor within the Nepal/Nyaya Health/Possible pod.