Media & Publications
Below are a list of media/press, selected speaking engagements, and scholarly publications.
Featured Media
CCT Partner Perspectives: Dr. Bernie Lim | Freedom Community Clinic
Whole Person Healing: A Conversation with Dr. Bernie Lim
The Healing Portal Episode #1: Intersections of Healing & Organizing with Marakee, Bernie, & Sabrina
Healing with Justice: The Intersection of Radical Politics and Medicine
Freedom Community Clinic offers whole person healing in Oakland - ABC 7
Oakland Clinic Brings Holistic Health Care to BIPOC Communities - San Francisco Chronicle
Selected Speaking Engagements
2023-2024
Plenary Speaker, Sojourners' Magazine, Pathways to Wholeness: A Health & Spirituality Symposium, "Californians Building Healthy Communities Panel". Los Angeles, CA.
Speaker, Social Mission Alliance, Healing Justice Fellowship Seminar Session: Creating Political Will: Political Campaigns, Coalition Building, and Applying Pressure, Virtual.
Speaker, Stanford University "Institutions and Inequities" Seminar, Stanford, CA.
Panelist Speaker, Common Sense Summit "Community Healing Strategies for Youth Mental Health: Insights from the California Endowment". San Francisco, CA.
Spotlighted Speaker, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University Netter Health Equity Series, "Addressing healing, justice and community in medicine", Virtual.
Keynote Speaker, American Public Health Association National Public Health Week, Virtual.
Spotlighted Speaker, AAPI Women LEAD Conference, Oakland, CA.
2021-2022
Spotlighted Speaker, “Freedom Community Clinic: Whole-Person Healing for the People”, Harvard Club of San Francisco. San Francisco, CA.
Spotlighted Speaker, The Council of Young Filipino American Physicians Conference, Virtual.
Spotlighted Speaker, UC Davis Center for Health Equity National Conference, Virtual.
Featured Panelist, “Beyond the Quadruple Aim: Provider/Student Wellness”. Beyond Flexner National Conference, Virtual.
2020
Keynote Speaker, Sacred Activism: Healing and Transformative Justice, Oakland, CA.
Keynote Speaker and Facilitator, Toward the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice, Oakland, CA.
Spotlighted Speaker, The Council of Young Filipino American Physicians Conference, Virtual.
Spotlight Speaker, On the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine, HTLTH 2020. Virtual.
2015-2019
Speaker, UCSF PRIME Workshop: “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for: a medical student self-love story in progress”, San Francisco, CA.
Keynote Speaker, Woke WOC Docs Live Podcast Recording and Event: Healing Justice By and
For Womxn of Color, Oakland, CA.
Keynote Speaker, Harvard Financial Aid Award Dinner, San Francisco, CA.
Invited Speaker, U.S. Embassy Mumbai, India.
Invited Speaker, U.S. Embassy Delhi, India.
Student Speaker, Clinton Global Initiative Conference
Keynote Speaker, Fidelity Investments National Young Women’s Summit, Boston, MA
Keynote Speaker, Boston Women’s Commission at the Boston Mayor’s Office
Scholarly Publications
2020
Lim B, Chadha N, Kane M, Rowland B. “Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education, Research, and Practice.” Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine, UC Berkeley Othering and Belonging Institute, UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender.
Selected Scholarly Presentations
2021-2023
“Freedom Community Clinic: Whole-Person Healing for the People” UCSF Family and Community Medicine Residency Elective. Oakland, CA
“Freedom Community Clinic: Whole-Person Healing for the People” UCSF PRIME-US. Oakland, CA
“Freedom Community Clinic: Whole-Person Healing for the People” UCSF Cancer Center Grand Rounds. San Francisco, CA.
2019-2020
“Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education Research and Practice.” UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland. Oakland, CA.
“Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education Research and Practice.” UC San Diego Medical Anthropology Department. San Diego, CA.
“Towards the Abolition of Biological Race in Medicine: Transforming Clinical Education Research and Practice.” UCSF Family Medicine Grand Rounds. San Francisco, CA.
“On Community Health Activism as a Minority Medical Student”. Stanford Asian Pacific Island American Medical Student Association. Oral. Stanford, CA.
2017-2018
“Freedom Community Clinic: On Healing By and For People of Color”. UCSF Elective on
Caring for the Underserved. Oral. San Francisco, CA.
“Woke WOC Docs: A Podcast About the Lives of Womxn of Color in Medicine and Health
Justice.” UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Symposium. Oral. Berkeley, CA.
"Bayani Kabataan (Youth Heroes): A Photovoice Project of Filipino Youth Health." Society of Adolescent Health and Medicine Annual Conference. Poster. Washington D.C.
"Bayani Kabataan (Youth Heroes): A Photovoice Project of Filipino Youth Health." UCSF Summer Explore Fellowship Symposium. Oral and Poster. San Francisco, CA.
"Beyond the Maternal-Infant Bond: Exploring Partner Perspectives of Breastfeeding and Infant
Sleep Practices in Resource-Limited Settings." American Public Health Association National Conference. Oral. San Diego, CA.
"Women SPEAK: Engaging Young Women as Creators and Visionaries of Change" American Public Health Association National Conference. Roundtable. San Diego, CA.
"Filipino Youth Perspectives on Community Health Needs: A Photovoice Project." American Public Health Association National Conference. Oral. San Diego, CA.
"Bridging Theory and Community: Lessons Learned from the Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice." American Public Health Association National Conference. Poster. San Diego, CA.
"Addressing harassment and exploitation of young women of color in Oakland". Berkeley Human Rights Center Fellowship Conference. Oral. Berkeley, CA.
"Re-imagining a more inclusive medical education: Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine
and Health Justice." UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine Rodnick Colloqium, Oral. San Francisco, CA.
"Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice". UC Berkeley School of Public
Health, Oral. UC Berkeley School of Public Health Leaders-in-Action Symposium.
"Beyond the Maternal-Infant Bond: Exploring Racial Inequities in Breastfeeding and Co-sleeping", Poster. PRIME Medical California Statewide Conference.
Selected Op-Eds & Commentaries
2016-2020
“Doctors can’t treat COVID-19 effectively without recognizing the social justice aspects of health.” The Conversation.
"Why are there so few women of color doctors?” The Tempest.
"Re-imagining a more inclusive and intersectional medicine: Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice." UC Berkeley Center for Race and Gender Studies.
"UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program shows support of DACA with photo campaign." UC Berkeley School of Public Health.
"Three Ways We All Benefit From More Gender-Inclusive Conferences." LinkedIn Pulse.
"Support Minority Students: Diversify Counseling and Mental Health Services." The Harvard Crimson.
"(Her)Story: A Revolution." Huffington Post.
"Supporting Affirmative Action as Asian Americans." The Harvard Crimson.
"'Model Minority' Seems Like a Compliment, but It Does Great Harm." The New York Times.
"Being Asian-American in the Affirmative Action Debate." Huffington Post.
"Supporting Affirmative Action as Asian Americans." The Asia Times.
"$1,000 Pills and the Future of Global Medicine." The Harvard Crimson.
"The Naked Truth: Black Lives Matter." The Harvard Crimson.
"The Politics of Medical Philanthropy." The Harvard Crimson.