Liza Buchbinder

Liza Buchbinder is a physician and anthropologist in the Center for Social Medicine and Humanities at the UCLA whose work focuses on human trafficking and health.

Medical personnel transport the first patient affected by COVID-19 to an ICU tent ( Emanuele Cremaschi/Stringer/Getty Images)

In a defunded health system, doctors and nurses suffer near-impossible conditions

Seth Holmes, Liza Buchbinder