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(DE)CONSTRUCTING D I F F E R E N C E : M E D I C A L I Z I N G B L A C K N E S S a n d t h e M A K I N G o f R A C E

Pleasants Family Assembly Room, Wilson Special Collections Library

University Libraries will host this talk by Rana A. Hogarth, assistant professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk will celebrate the opening of the exhibition “Race Deconstructed Science and the Making of Difference.” Hogarth is the author of “Medicating Blackness Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840” (University of … Read more

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Jonathan Oberlander

School of Dentistry, Brauer Hall, Room 464

Cardiovascular Grand Rounds presented by Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, Professor and Chair, Department of Social Medicine Dr. Oberlander is also a Professor in the Department of Health Policy & Management at UNC. He is the editor of Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. The topic will be "The Affordable Care Act at 10: Lessons, Legacies … Read more

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

MacNider Hall, Room 18

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents: Speaker: Edward Iglesia, MD, MPH, Clinical Fellow in Allergy/Immunology, University of North Carolina Hospitals Lecture information: This lecture will review the recent history of food allergy prevention. This will include reviewing the epidemiology of food allergy, the clinical science data supporting infant allergenic food, and controversies regarding population-based recommendations for food … Read more

Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium

Inaugural Paul A. Godley Health Equity Symposium

This symposium will bring together faculty, staff, students, and the community to highlight and encourage health equity research, promote collaboration and networking, and encourage strategic planning and partnerships at the UNC School of Medicine. We invite research abstract submissions from UNC faculty, staff, and students advancing health equity in our NC communities. If accepted, you … Read more

Hermeneutics of Nature: Natural Theology and Early American Birth Medicine

ON LINE Meeting

Bullitt Club Lecture Series Presents-ONLINE MEETING Jennifer Edwell, PhD Candidate, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel Hill, and 2019 McLendon-Thomas Award Winner Hermeneutics of Nature: Natural Theology and Early American Birth Medicine About the Bullitt History of Medicine Club Formed in 1953, the Bullitt History of Medicine Club is a student organization within the … Read more

Reflections on Race & Medicine in the Year of COVID-19 & Nationwide Protests

ON LINE Meeting

HEALTH HUMANITIES GRAND ROUNDS: Reflections on Race & Medicine in the Year of COVID-19 & Nationwide Protests. Damon Tweedy, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry Duke University The COVID-19 pandemic has shined an ugly light on the longstanding racial and ethnic health disparities that persist in our country. Coupled with the televised murder of George Floyd, … Read more

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

Online

Bullitt History of Medicine Club lecture: Not Born Yesterday: Anti-Cancer Activism in Early 20th Century Latin America Lecture information: This lecture focuses on the case of Peru to explain the emergence and decline of the earliest Latin American coalitions of state health agencies, physicians, and lay people to broadcast the early signs of cancer. It … Read more

How Pandemics Show Us Who We Are: Race and Risk in the United States UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture with Mary T. Bassett

UNC Health and Human Rights Lecture on Oct 7, which the Center for Bioethics is once again co-sponsoring with the Department of Public Policy and the Gillings School. Dr. Mary Bassett will address how the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected Black Americans and other communities of color, as well as poor people of all backgrounds, … Read more