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Members In The News

The WAFP wants to acknowledge and honor the accomplishments of its members. That’s why we’re asking members to submit newsworthy articles regarding you, your practice and your commitment to the community. 

The WAFP would like to honor:

Sarah Brown MD, MPH

Mobile Medicine Doc Brings Clinic to Patients

As the daughter of a nurse and a member of a large extended family, it might have been expected that Sarah Brown, M.D., M.P.H., would choose a career focused on helping others. The unexpected part of Brown’s story is the great lengths to which she has been willing to go to do it.

“In college, I thought I was going to become a teacher or a social worker because of my family background,” said Brown, who has two biological siblings and 23 more through foster care, kinship care and adoption. “After college, I wanted to be more intellectually challenged, and I saw that doctors have a unique role to advocate for and help the people around them.”

A friend in need came to live with Brown’s family while she was in elementary school. From that simple beginning, her parents developed a passion for “helping kids navigate traumas and keeping biological sibling groups together.”

The experience shaped Brown’s worldview, and she spent three years in human services after graduating from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Still, Brown yearned to learn and do more, and she returned to school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, earning both her medical degree and a master’s in public health. Her master’s work focused on community-based health programming and research, which influenced her perspective on the efficacy of grassroots public health.

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