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Dr. Graham is a leading expert on the social determinants of health. He has spoken about the health disparities that cause African Americans to suffer higher rates of dangerous health conditions such as heart disease, stroke and diabetes. As a practicing cardiologist and professor of medicine…He oversees community health initiatives for the Aetna Foundation - bringing experience as the former deputy assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama and Bush administrations where he also ran the Office of Minority Health.
The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin this January, and we’re bringing you some of the stories that were recorded there. Jeremy Bolf came to the StoryCorps mobile booth to learn more about his family’s matriarch, affectionately known as Granny Bolf. Jeremy was too young to know his grandmother well before her passing in 1975, so he asked his father Stanley, who was her youngest son, and his aunt Donna, who married into the family in 1958, to share some memories.