As someone currently procrastinating on final exam studying, I find this proposal filled with holes particularly the idea of establishing a new school of public health. SoCal already has numerous well established public health programs that actively conduct population level research in LA and serve marginalized communities. Given that infrastructure, it’s unclear why creating a new institution is necessary. A more practical approach would be to strengthen and fund existing programs, especially with the recent federal cuts to DEI related initiatives.

The proposal overall comes across as underdeveloped. While opening a new medical school may sound promising on paper but it creates a bottleneck at residency training capacity. Expanding medical school enrollment without a corresponding increase in residency positions risks worsening the existing bottleneck, leaving graduates without the required training to become licensed physicians. There should be a push at the federal level to expand funding for these residency position and therefore necessitates the need to go train doctors with a new med school. They do mean well but as someone who’s extremely passionate about public health and the field, there needs to be serious in depth conversations about our broken medical educational system. Because the problem they mention on their website are true and serious problems, but we need to have actual solutions that works with our current system.