In Philadelphia, the fight for quality healthcare is more than just doctor visits it’s a fight for survival. Jasmine Evans, Philly native, activist, and PhD student, leads that fight with her initiative “We Got Us”, a health pop-up series bringing essential screenings directly into Black and Brown communities.
Jasmine’s journey is personal. After spending years on dialysis, she discovered that a racially biased medical algorithm stole four years from her kidney transplant journey. That experience lit a fire in her, pushing her to research the systemic racism hiding in our healthcare system and do something about it.
Through We Got Us, Jasmine brings mobile health screenings, mammograms, HPV tests, and prostate checks into neighborhoods like North and West Philly. But it’s deeper than that. It’s about making healthcare feel like it’s for us, with yoga sessions, affirmation spaces, and panels with doctors who look like us and talk like us.
At the same time, she’s calling out institutions like Fox Chase at Temple Hospital for failing to show up for the communities they claim to serve. “We need these institutions to stop talking equity and actually be about equity,” Jasmine said.
The intersection between healthcare, poverty, and environmental racism is real in Philly. It’s not just about doctor visits, it’s about clean air, quality food, and hospitals that don’t close overnight because of corporate greed.
Jasmine’s message is that healthcare should be a right, not a privilege, and if we want better, we must fight louder together. Philly deserves more than urgent care Band-Aids we deserve real, holistic healthcare.
Stay connected with We Got Us on Instagram @jmedia.llc or visit jasmineevans.com. The next pop-up is June 28 at One Art Community Center, West Philly. Pull up and protect your health.
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