{"id":3808,"date":"2026-02-23T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2026-02-23T11:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T16:28:29","slug":"alysse-wurcel-selected-as-health-equity-champion-honoree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/2026\/02\/23\/alysse-wurcel-selected-as-health-equity-champion-honoree\/","title":{"rendered":"Alysse Wurcel Selected as Health Equity Champion Honoree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gim\/files\/2026\/02\/alysse-wurcel-e1771863451883-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"357\" class=\" wp-image-3805 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/02\/alysse-wurcel-e1771863451883-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/files\/2026\/02\/alysse-wurcel-e1771863451883.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alysse Wurcel, an Associate Professor of Medicine and a clinician investigator in the Section of General Internal Medicine, has been selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsociety.org\/about-us\/inclusion-diversity-access--equity\/health-equity-champions\/\">Infectious Diseases Society of America as a Health Equity Champion Honoree<\/a>. Dr. Wurcel is a nationally recognized clinician investigator with over 20 years of expertise in infectious diseases and experience working with people with HIV, people who are incarcerated, and people who use drugs.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Wurcel\u2019s research portfolio is characterized by a commitment to health equity, development of systems-based strategies to improve healthcare, and engagement of a broad array of stakeholders. She is Multiple Principal Investigator on two National Institutes of Health R-level grants: a research project to improve equitable access to penicillin allergy de-labeling and an exploratory\/development grant to improve systems of infectious diseases care in Suffolk County jails. She has published over 115 peer-reviewed manuscripts advancing the science of health services research.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Dr. Wurcel&#8217;s health equity work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsociety.org\/about-us\/inclusion-diversity-access--equity\/health-equity-champions\/alysse-wurcel-md-ms-fidsa\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alysse Wurcel, an Associate Professor of Medicine and a clinician investigator in the Section of General Internal Medicine, has been selected by the Infectious Diseases Society of America as a Health Equity Champion Honoree. Dr. Wurcel is a nationally recognized clinician investigator with over 20 years of expertise in infectious diseases and experience working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23454,"featured_media":3805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1321],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}