About New York Doctors

New York Doctors (NYDocs) coalition organizes health workers and groups supporting community-led efforts to address root causes of health for a just and livable society.

Mission

The New York Doctors coalition is a collection of groups and individual health workers, trainees, and activists. We are committed to recognizing past harms and advancing policies and practices that undo systems of oppression and promote health justice. We pursue this mission primarily by supporting and amplifying the work led by those most impacted by health inequity. We mobilize health workers into activism, advocacy, and electoral work in solidarity with intersecting movements for health equity and social justice. The coalition has grown over time from its physician roots to the broader health worker community.

Vision

The best possible health for every New Yorker. This includes:

• Universal, unsegregated, and equitable access to healthy, safe, and affordable housing, jobs, school, food, transit, child and elder care, and healthcare regardless of who we are or where we live

• A diverse, inclusive, and representative workforce at all levels that acknowledges the past, acts with cultural humility, and works to promote belonging and justice, sharing power and undoing systems of oppression, including racism, nativism, sexism, classism, and ableism

• Robust and equitable investment in communities to redress root causes of health inequity

• Abolition of oppressive carceral systems and cultures, including immigration enforcement

• Full participation in a healthy democracy

Values

• Working with intersectional movements for social justice, including but not limited to racial justice, disability justice, economic justice, immigration justice, sexual orientation and gender justice, reproductive justice, environmental justice, and transformative justice through abolition

• Sharing power, undoing systems of oppression, including anti-racist practice and learning, and addressing root causes or social drivers

• Supporting organizing and amplification of health workers and trainees, particularly through inclusion of those who have been historically marginalized, in solidarity with others

• Holding accountable and mobilizing health workers and trainees around our privilege and the complicity of our professions, businesses, schools, and employers in health inequities

• Building community as an antidote to authoritarian strategies that erode democracy, undermine education, data, science, and the media, scapegoat the most marginalized, and create scarcity through stolen wealth and squandered natural resources