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Since its founding in 1975, Morehouse School of Medicine has been leading the creation

and advancement of health equity to achieve health justice. We exist to promote health equity in 40% 88% of MD students
every facet of our society by: matriculating in 2022-23
came from medically
• Addressing critical healthcare shortages by placing primary care clinicians in the underserved underserved communities
urban and rural areas that need us most GROWTH in Georgia.

• Increasing the diversity of the health professional and scientific workforce to improve health outcomes in student body size
• Improving health and wellbeing of individuals and communities through programs in education, over the past six years.
research, and service for all.

Capital gifts will
CAMPAIGN PILLARS: EDUCATION | INNOVATION | CAPITAL | ENDOWMENT
provide the necessary
campus expansions
to allow MSM to double
student enrollment
Morehouse School of Medicine
50 here, you are investing in more The case 80% 10.7% increase in enrollment 72%
across all programs
is the solution. When you invest
primary care physicians and
more clinicians serving
between the 2021-22 and
is clear.
2022-23 Academic Years.
underserved communities.
An investment
of our MD
You are increasing the number
to care for
School of
assistants, researchers, and
underserved
Medicine’s
public health professionals.
For almost 50 years, our mission has not wavered, of physicians, physician in Morehouse of our student body students plan
but our work has never been more important You are building the groundwork $500 million comes from populations populations and
than it is right now. Clinical shortages are for a new nursing program. IMPACT underrepresented in 67% choose
pervasive. Disparate health care is the norm for You are supporting cutting Campaign medicine and biomedical primary care
too many people. According to the Georgia edge medical discoveries and ensures a sciences. and core specialty
Public Policy Foundation: research that is resulting in healthier and residencies vs.
• nine counties have no doctors of any specialty improved outcomes for all more equitable the 35% national
• 18 counties have no family medicine physician people — in Georgia, across average.
• 65 counties have no pediatrician the US, and around the world. future for all. Four MSM Physician Assistant Studies students
participated in the first year of an initiative that offers
• 82 counties, there are no OB/GYN specialists training in rural health care through Northern Light
Health, a healthcare system in Maine.

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