Linnea Capps
Linnea Capps is Associate Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and: Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons (home dept.) Associate Director, Department of Medicine, Harlem Hospital Center, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Linnea Capps' principal work is in the Department of Medicine at Harlem Hospital where she is associate director of the Department and director of the residency program. She spends a part of each year working in a community health project in Mexico.[1]
Education
- MPH, Columbia University, 1985
- MD, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1977[2]
El Salvador
In 1985-87, Democratic Socialists of America member Linnea Capps, worked in a rural health project in El Salvador .[3]
Health care pamphlet
In 1990, Democratic Socialists of America produced a pamphlet "Health Care for People Not Profit, the Need for a National Health Care System". Quotes were included from Barbara Ehrenreich, Ron Dellums, Gerry Hudson, Linnea Capps MD (Chair of APHA Socialist Caucus and Ron Sable.[4]