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May 2016
‘Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Approach to Stigma and Inequality’ at Boosting Statewide Momentum to Achieve System Goals
This workshop will detail an important and increasingly influential new framework for…
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What Is a Month of Life Worth?: Assessing the Impact of ACA Rejection on White Men in Tennessee – Johns Hopkins Program in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology Colloquium
What Is a Month of Life Worth?: Assessing the Impact of ACA…
Find out more »History of Medicine and Health Activism panel – New York Academy of Medicine
14th ANNUAL JOINT ATLANTIC SEMINAR FOR THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE “Organizing Medicine”…
Find out more »October 2016
Racism and Health in the US South – Colloquium at Georgia Tech
On Wednesday, October 5th, 3:00pm – 5:00pm Dr. Camara Jones and I will be in dialogue about the impact of racism on health in the US South. This facilitated conversation is open to the public and will take place at Georgia Tech University.
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Keynote at Black Psychiatrists of America 37th Transcultural Psychiatry Conference – Nassau, Bahamas
Keynote at Black Psychiatrists of America 37th Transcultural Psychiatry Conference - Nassau,…
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Risk Taking, Freedom, Safety, and Well-Being: Dimensions of an Engaged Campus Culture, San Francisco
These dimensions of an engaged campus are fraught with the challenges of…
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The global psyche: experiments in ethics, politics, and technoscience
Dr. Jonathan Metzl is conference co-organizer
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Alt-White Supremacy as Public Health Emergency – DAHSM Culpeper Seminar Series
Of late, we’ve heard much about the rise of “alt-white supremacy” in the United States—with the assumption that supremacy is a system that places white people atop persons of color, immigrants, and other marginalized groups. The core ideology of supremacy, and the politics and policies that support it, depends on a hierarchy that seemingly privileges and benefits white people at the expense of everyone else. (See, e.g., walls, bans, and other structures and policies.)
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September 2017
Keynote at Humanities Futures Capstone Conference, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
The capstone conference, titled Health Humanities & Social Justice: Breath, Body, Voice, will focus on the health humanities. We define health on a continuum from the health sciences to states of health, and focus on social justice to bridge the lived experiences of health and wellness in both our academic and non-academic communities. Furthermore, in 2017, we ask: how are the humanities transforming health, and how is health transforming the humanities? And what do these mutual influences suggest concerning the health of the humanities?
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