BENDING
THE ARC.
About ME
Inam Sakinah is a second-year MD student at Harvard Medical School.
Committed to confronting the structural determinants of health inequity, Inam’s work lies at the nexus of medicine, politics, and policy. Inam completed a Master of Public Health at Emory University as a Woodruff Scholar where her research focused on access to health care. Inam previously worked at the CDC on workforce equity strategy and at the FDA on drug safety policy. Inam was also selected by the Florida Executive Office of the Governor as their youngest Gubernatorial Fellow. In that role, she partnered with the Florida Department of Health to pioneer health equity trainings for the agency.
During her undergraduate years, she founded Power of WE, a university-wide initiative that is now a nationally recognized model for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion on college campuses.
Inam graduated summa cum laude with a BSc. in Interdisciplinary Social Science from Florida State University in 2018.
TEDx TAlk
Growing up at the intersection of what she calls "imagined dichotomies," Inam Sakinah uses powerful anecdotes to illustrate how rising Islamophobia is another manifestation of the human fear of difference - the same fear that has sown seeds of bigotry in the past.
She searches for a way to defy this history and shares that to write a new story,
a shared story we must start by recognizing that different does not mean other.
BUILDING A MOVEMENT
Introducing Future Doctors in Politics: a national movement working to empower future doctors to drive patient-centric political and structural change.
Learn more about our mission to make America’s politics and policies work for patients and communities. Click here.