Eduardo Riberio, Medical Interpreter, Language Access, Johns Hopkins Bayview, provides a cultural and historical overview of Latin America, focusing on populations with a significant presence among Baltimore's Spanish-speaking communities. Often overlooked under the label "Hispanic," such communities include members of several indigenous groups from Mexico, Central America, and Ecuador – groups with unique historical, cultural and linguistic characteristics that need to be taken into account in order to achieve culturally sensitive, inclusive and equitable health care outcomes. Riberio was born and raised in Brazil and originally came to the US as a linguistics graduate student at the University of Chicago, obtaining a PhD based on extensive field research with indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon. #HealthcareDiversity #JohnsHopkins
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