Latest Immigrant Story Piece: From Zim Kid to COVID-19 Advisor
In my latest piece for The Immigrant Story, I profile a young man from Zimbabwe who came to the US with a dream of going to college and making a difference in others’ lives. Now he’s realizing his dream as a physician in Portland and a COVID-19 Advisor for the Oregon Health Authority.
When Bukhosi Dube recently took a big pay cut to work as a physician at the Multnomah County Health Department, his goal was to ultimately find work in public health.
“There’s always this notion of how can I help society, how can I be useful to my fellow beings,” he told the Immigrant Story in February.
In April, Dube was named Senior Health Advisor to the Oregon Health Authority, (OHA), where he’s working with a team that provides guidance to physicians and medical institutions on how to address the COVID-19 crisis.
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