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 … Read more
Please join the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on Wednesday, October 21, at 1:00 p.m. ET for the release of its new report Understanding the Well-Being of LGBTQI+ Populations. This report will review the available data and future research needs relevant to persons of diverse sexualities and genders, and persons with differences in … Read more
Join us during University Research Week as we honor Carmen Samuel-Hodge, RD, PhD, the inaugural winner of the Gillings Health Equity Faculty Research Award. This award recognizes faculty who demonstrate excellence in research that has made a substantial impact on improved equitable outcomes or sustained reduction in inequities in a pressing public health issue. This … Read more
HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS P R E S E N T E D B Y H H I V E & C A R O L I N A S E M I N A R S Drawing on 23 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 123 interviews, Dr. Tania Jenkins will explore social hierarchies of … Read more
A Workshop on the Intersection of Medical Advocacy and Medical Ethics Are there any professional ethical obligations for health care professionals to take responsibility for their colleagues' complicity, given the cultural and political differences that influence their work? What can and should health care professionals across the globe who are motivated to advocate on this … Read more
H E A L T H H UMA N I T I E S G R A N D R O U N D S Anne Lyerly, MD, MA The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a range of tensions at the interface of public policies and the private lives of individuals, including in the context 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 Registration link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1kMwiRCVRB-KOq58Hfs6PA 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 … Read more
Register here Lecture information: 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 bubonic plague that ravaged Europe among other parts of the world. In fact, while medieval doctors lacked modern medical technologies and knowledge of disease pathology, they … Read more
CFAR-Wide Webinar: Engaging transgender women in HIV cohorts in the US: LITE and LITE+ Time Dr. Andrea Wirtz from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Tonia Poteat, PhD, PA-C, MPH, CHER core faculty, will discuss engaging transgender women in HIV cohorts in the US: LITE and LITE+ Register here!
Vikram Patel is The Pershing Square Professor of Global Health and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the Harvard Medical School. He co-leads the GlobalMentalHealth@Harvard initiative. His work has focused on the burden of mental disorders, their association with social disadvantage, and the use of community resources for their prevention and treatment. He holds Honorary Professorships … Read more
