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Cultivating Community Health
Part 1
In this video, we explore the chronic disease epidemic and whether our healthcare system truly supports wellness. Together, we discuss the transformative power of community in driving a healing revolution through food justice, environmental justice, and health equity.
BP Living Day 2023 Rewind: A Seat at the Table with Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis
Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis is back! This time she'll be joined by Big Picture students as they speak on the state of health & wellness and the importance of understanding the relationship between the 6 healthy habits of lifestyle medicine.
Plantathon 2023:
The Art of Prevention
What do we do about persistent health disparities in our communities?Meet the powerful voice of Marsha-Gail Davis, MD, MPH, joining us from Georgia to share her medical and artistic perspectives on where to go next. Dr. Davis is a primary care internist and preventionist, triple-board certified in Internal Medicine, Preventative Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine
Health care, not sick care: Giving patients what they really want
Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis became a physician to promote health and to treat and prevent disease. Instead she found herself working in a healthcare system better suited to illness and symptom management.
But patients don’t want “sick care” any more than clinicians want to provide it. Systemic changes will take time but Dr. Davis shares ideas about impactful things we can do now, both as clinicians and individuals, to advance health equity.
Preventionist Healthcare and Environment Impact on Health
"Your individual choices are significantly influenced by your environment, both physical and social, because that's where culture comes into play. And we know how much marketing, you can actually sneak way more than I could on that." - Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis, MD
Marsha-Gail Davis, MD, on Mental Health, Depression & Plant-based Lifestyle
This episode is together with dr. Davis. Marsha-Gail Davis, MD, works with lifestyle changes & preventive medicine. Her specialties include Public Health & General Preventive Medicine, Internal Medicine. We will talk about health, plant-based food, mental health, depression. Preventive medicine is exactly what it sounds like — it aims to prevent sickness before it happens. Eating plant-based, whole foods flood your body with the nutrients you need into order to feel amazing. This lifestyle comes with long-term benefits like remediating and preventing a number of diseases.
Back to the Basics | Interview with Marsha-Gail Davis M.D.
Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis is a primary care internist and preventionist with expertise in lifestyle medicine who is committed to seeing her patients and community not only get well but stay well. She sees herself as a guide to help her patients to preserve their health over the course of their lives and avoid the unnecessary burden of preventable chronic diseases that cause significant suffering and early death, especially in communities of color where the negative impact of chronic disease is most profound.
A Seat at the Table series
A new year presents new opportunities for growth. To that end, Big Picture Learning (BPL) and HEAL (Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine) - an initiative of American College of Lifestyle Medicine - invite you to attend a critically important, three-part conversation on equity, education and the well-being of our future generations.
















