Farheen Qurashi

Dr. Qurashi is an acute care surgeon at Sinai Hospital of LifeBridge Health, practicing trauma and critical care surgery. She is a faculty member educating residents and medical students, a clinical champion for quality improvement, and a health care advocacy leader. She is interested in access to health care, violence reduction, and the social determinants of health. She believes in an evidence-based, public health focused approach that addresses socioeconomic risk factors and utilizes medical care to intervene on the root causes of violence. Through the Bloomberg Fellowship, in collaboration with LifeBridge Health’s Center for Hope, she will expand the evidence base on violence, implement healthcare-based strategies to prevent the cycle of violence, and use her voice as a physician to advocate for violence reduction strategies.

The Center for Hope at LifeBridge Health is a comprehensive violence intervention and prevention agency. It supports survivors of violence through a multidisciplinary approach addressing core issues such as emotional trauma, medical treatment, economic and food needs, health care resources, and more. The Center engages in violence prevention, education, and community support. Contained within Center for Hope is a nationally accredited child advocacy center, hospital-based violence response teams at Sinai Hospital and Grace Medical Center, two Safe Streets sites based on the Cure Violence model, Pathways to Advocacy Against Violence Everyday (PAAVE) which supports youth and families affected by violence and/or homicide, the DOVE Program (which focuses on intimate partner violence), and a developing Elder Justice response.