MedPage Today December 4, 2024
— This year’s campaign helped contribute to a 5-year total over $3 million
Healthcare workers have been taking part in — and posting about — a physician-founded social media competition to raise funds for food banks and other organizations under the name “Healthcare Workers vs Hunger,” or HCWvsHunger.
The competition was started in December 2020 by Angela Weyand, MD, a pediatric hematologist-oncologist at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, and Tatiana Prowell, MD, an associate professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center in Baltimore. This year’s iteration closed on Tuesday.
A website for Healthcare Workers vs Hunger explains that it is a friendly competition between healthcare workers and friends that was...