The Arnold P. Gold Foundation infuses the human connection into healthcare. We engage schools, health systems, companies, and individual clinicians in the joy and meaning of humanistic healthcare, so that they have the strength and knowledge to ensure patients and families are partners in collaborative, compassionate, and scientifically excellent care.
Save the date: May 6-8 for GHHS Conference
We’re excited to announce the 2021 GHHS Virtual Conference, which draws upon the National Initiative of Humanism and Healing: Structural Racism and its Impact on Medicine. Prerecorded sessions, videos, & extras will be available April 26-May 10. Live sessions will be held May 6-8. The gathering is open to the entire Gold community. Please mark your calendar!
Registration opens in early March.
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2021 Hope Babette Tang Essay Contest opens
Medical and nursing students are invited to enter our annual Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest. The prompt this year is a quote from a poem by Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman.
Deadline: March 15
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Three titans of humanism to be awarded Gold medals
The National Humanism in Medicine Medal will be awarded at the 2021 Gala to:
- Dr. Anthony Fauci, Iconic Leader in U.S. Healthcare, Global Pioneer in Infectious Disease Research, and Compassionate Advocate of the American People during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Dr. Wayne J. Riley, Celebrated 17th President of SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Luminary of Medical Education Educator, and Transformative Leader for Health Equity and Humanism in Healthcare
- Dr. Eric Topol, Renowned Molecular Cardiologist and Geneticist, World Leader in Medical Research, Humanist Practitioner, and Bestselling Author on the Future of Medicine
Dr. Marie-Ève Goyer selected as the 2021 AFMC-Gold Humanism Award recipient

Tweet collection from Solidarity Week 2021
The Gold Corporate Council aspires to help shift healthcare to be inclusive, equitable and just

Jeffrey Silver Humanism in Healthcare Research Roundup – December 2020-January 2021

Apply now for 2021 Gold Student Summer Fellowships

What She Carried

Q&A with professors of Humanism in Health & Healthcare course live cohort
