Oberlander Publishes Article in NEJM: Can the Elections End the Health Reform Stalemate?
October 22, 2020
Can the Elections End the Health Reform Stalemate? https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2028380?query=TOC
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“Black Trans Lives Matter: Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” is now available on the Carolina Population Center
September 15, 2020
Tonia Poteat, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Medicine, talk on “Black Trans Lives Matter: Understanding and Addressing Embodied Inequalities” is now available on the Carolina Population Center YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th04QgkslhE
Oberlander Interviewed by BBC World Service on US Health Reform
September 11, 2020
Jonathan Oberlander, Professor and Chair of Social Medicine, and Professor of Health Policy & Management, was interviewed by the BBC program Witness History about the history of health care reform in the United States. Oberlander discussed the defeat of President Harry Truman’s national health insurance plan in the 1940s, the...
Raul Necochea, co-editor of new book, Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America
August 14, 2020
Buenos Aires psychoanalysts resisting imperialism. Brazilian parasitologists embracing communism as an antidote to rural misery. Nicaraguan revolutionaries welcoming Cuban health cooperation. Chilean public health reformers gauging domestic approaches against their Soviet and Western counterparts. As explored in Peripheral Nerve, these and accompanying accounts problematize existing understandings of how the Cold War...
With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? Terrence Holt on Common Distortions and False Equivalencies
August 4, 2020
Terrence Holt publishes in Literary Hub, With Pandemic Information Overload How Can We Tell What is Real? We know next to nothing. That’s how we feel. SARS-CoV-19, or “the novel coronavirus,” the pathogen responsible for this pandemic, is a strikingly unusual beast, capable of wreaking a bewildering variety of harms...
Jill Fisher interview on WUNC: Can Pharmaceutical Testing Ever Be Ethical Under Capitalism?
July 30, 2020
Can Pharmaceutical Testing Ever Be Ethical Under Capitalism? https://www.wunc.org/post/can-pharmaceutical-testing-ever-be-ethical-under-capitalism
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein interviewed by The Gazette
July 30, 2020
After Denver jail COVID-19 cases spiked, officials scrambled to lower publicly reported counts. https://gazette.com/government/after-denver-jail-covid-19-cases-spike-officials-scrambled-to-lower-publicly-reported-counts/article_ab9b6568-cd40-11ea-8a6a-eb82648e3970.html
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein interviewed by North Carolina Health News
July 30, 2020
ICE transfers — and NC jail partnerships — have continued amid the pandemic https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/07/24/six-nc-jails-entered-contracts-with-ice-amid-the-pandemic/
Perreira Publishes Article on Access to Abortion in American Journal of Public Health
June 17, 2020
Dr. Krista Perreira, Professor of Social Medicine, recently published an article in the American Journal of Public Health on perceived access to abortion among women in the United States. Perreira and her colleagues at the Urban Institute find that 27.6% of women aged 18-44 in U.S. households believed that access...
Lauren Brinkley-Rubinstein interviewed by STAT News ‘Obsessed with staying alive’: Inmates describe a prison’s piecemeal response to a fatal Covid-19 outbreak.
June 12, 2020
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/12/california-institution-for-men-covid19-outbreak/