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Professor Quigley Writes about Muslim Healthcare in Foreign Policy
07/02/2019
Professor Fran Quigley, '87, has written an article highlighting how religious communities in the U.S. are providing free healthcare, and wearing down anti-immigrant sentiment at the same time. The piece was published in Foreign Policy.
Professor Quigley's story tells how the Hoosier Crescent Foundation started an east side Indianapolis free medical clinic in the basement of a community college. The man who helped start the clinic heard about a Muslim-led free clinic in Florida, and reached out to the clinic and some physician friends to get the operation off the ground. There are about 70 Muslim-led free clinics in the U.S. The goal of the work, Professor Quigley writes, is to respond to the enormous healthcare need, and to respond to the majority U.S. population's persistent misunderstanding of Islam.
Professor Quigley teaches in the Health and Human Rights Clinic at IU McKinney. He is the author of Prescription for the People: An Activist's Guide to Making Medicine Affordable for All, published by Cornell University Press in 2017, and is the founder of Faith in Healthcare.
