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To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention

MacNider Hall -- Room 18 333 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, University of North Carolina Hospitals To Feed or Not to Feed: Medical Reversal in Food Allergy Prevention MacNider Hall, Room 18. Lecture information: This lecture will review the recent history of food allergy prevention. This will include reviewing the epidemiology of food … Read more

Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Raul Necochea, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America REGISTER for this event. Lecture information: This lecture focuses on the case of Peru to explain the emergence and decline of the earliest Latin American … Read more

Off the Shelf: Author Talk with Dan Royles

Dan Royles discusses his book, “To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS” “To Make the Wounded Whole” offers the first history of African American AIDS activism in all of its depth and breadth. Dan Royles introduces a diverse constellation of activists, including medical professionals, Black gay intellectuals, church pastors, Nation of … Read more

The History of Anti-Vaccination

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Elizabeth Salisbury MS2, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine The History of Anti-Vaccination REGISTER for this event. Lecture information: This talk investigates the origins of the anti-vaccination movement, tracing its roots back to the smallpox vaccine. The anti-vaccination movement will be explored through three lenses: mandatory vaccinations and government control, safety and … Read more

The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Dr. Brett Whalen Associate Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill  The Doctors and the Black Death: Reconsidering Expertise in an Age of Pandemic  REGISTER for this event. Lecture: In the popular imagination, backwards and ignorant “medieval people” possessed no means of understanding or trying to combat the Black Death, the fourteenth-century outbreak of … Read more

NEW DATE, April 13th: Student Lightning Talks

NEW DATE: April 13, 12 p.m. (Event was originally scheduled for March 30) Sample the work of current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in a lightning talk. Each presentation will be about 5 minutes, challenging participants to distill their work down to its essence. The talks will be followed by … Read more

Student Lightning Talks

This event was originally scheduled for March 30 Sample the work of current UNC School of Medicine students as they present their research in a lightning talk. Each presentation will be about 5 minutes, challenging participants to distill their work down to its essence. The talks will be followed by a Q&A at the end. … Read more

Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women’s Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Carrie Streeter Ph.D. Candidate, U.S. History, University of California San Diego Mind-Body Medicine and Black Women's Clubs in the Era of Jim Crow REGISTER for this event. Lecture: When asked why Black women formed politically minded clubs during an era of rising racial segregation and oppressive violence, one leader aptly described such … Read more

History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Simone Kropf Professor of History of Sciences and Health, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil REGISTER for this event. Lecture: This lecture will explore the history of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis), discovered by the physician Carlos Chagas in 1909 in a poor, rural area of Brazil.   The talk will focus on studies … Read more

Diabetes and the American Century

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents Rick Mizelle Associate Professor of History, University of Houston. History of Chagas Disease: Science and Health in Brazil REGISTER for this event. Lecture Diabetes has played a key role in multiple twentieth century movements. This talk focuses on the Civil Rights and Post-Civil Rights era to rethink the importance of chronic disease and social … Read more