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<i>Hello Upstate NCOM students - Dr. Amy Caruso Brown wanted to share this opportunity with you; please see information below.</i></div>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: 12pt;">Potential opportunity for medical and public health students interested in advocacy. See below.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Amy E. Caruso Brown, MD, MSc, MSCS, HEC-C (she/her/hers)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Chair, Center for Bioethics and Humanities</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Medical Alumni Association Endowed Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities</span></p>
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the city of Syracuse and Upstate Medical University now stand.</i></span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>From: </b>Hope Ferdowsian <</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWA7c2fc7c9-cdd1-0abf-5b83-a72963898f2c" href="mailto:hrf@phoenixzonesinitiative.org">hrf@phoenixzonesinitiative.org</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">><br>
<b>Date: </b>Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 13:58<br>
<b>To: </b>Amy E. Caruso Brown <</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAdcf28290-347b-e3ec-7180-b22c51d439a9" href="mailto:BrownAmy@upstate.edu">BrownAmy@upstate.edu</a></u></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[EXTERNAL] New Institute Leadership Opportunity</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 1pt; color: white;">Dear Dr. Caruso Brown, I'm writing to share an upcoming opportunity that I thought you might be interested in sharing. The Institute for Universal
Rights, Health & Justice is pleased to announce that, from June 1st to July 10th of 2026,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Dear Dr. Caruso Brown,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">I'm writing to share an upcoming opportunity that I thought you might be interested in sharing.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">The
</span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: blue;"><u><a style="color: blue; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="OWAAutoLink" id="OWAef246ef5-488a-745b-841e-9e930488f7e2" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.phoenixzonesinitiative.org/institute-for-universal-rights-health-justice/__;!!GobTDDpD7A!IEjnzXbhuS3dVz_VElMi5ukTF1_pjOclEPE6QrgAM4fdf5Lat7DGjuYwsCRfHmoo2bjyGCdNv3_1R9Vayv9K-KeDhh8$">Institute
for Universal Rights, Health & Justice</a></u></span><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;"> is pleased to announce that, from June 1st to July 10th of 2026, we will host our inaugural Leadership Program. The virtual 6-week
program will explore how the moral and legal recognition of rights influences individual and public health outcomes in our more-than-human world, and how a consistent commitment to justice offers opportunities to address complex, interlinked challenges such
as violence and conflict, chronic and infectious disease risks, and environmental threats.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Because the program is targeted at graduate students, postgraduates, and early to mid-career professionals
(including MD/DO, DVM, JD, and PhD candidates or professionals), I thought you might know students or professionals who would benefit from participating in the program. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Would you mind sharing this email with your networks as well as any other scholars, advocates, and practitioners
who might be interested?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Please let me know if you have any questions, and thank you for your consideration.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; color: black;">Thank you,</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(68, 68, 68);">Hope Ferdowsian, MD, MPH, FACP, FACPM (she/her)</span></p>
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