Health and Humanities Lab at UNC Chapel Hill

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Mili Dave on Dr. Damon Tweedy’s Grand Rounds

Dr. Damon Tweedy’s Grand Rounds: “Reflections on Race and Medicine in the Year of COVID-19 and National Protests” “#BlackLivesMatter.” It is Instagrammed and retweeted, inscribed onto signs and roared at protests rippling across the nation. It is echoed everywhere yet … Continued
Paid Intern Opportunities with Positive Social Impact

UNC’s Partnerships in Aging Program is looking for three interns to assist with affordable housing projects, senior center accreditation, and transportation for seniors for the 2020-21 academic year. Additionally, Pee Wee Homes, an affordable home builder in Chapel Hill, is … Continued
Submit to the Health Humanities Journal!

The Health Humanities Journal of UNC Chapel Hill is currently soliciting original work through September 15th, 2020. Submissions in the form of narrative, visual art, poetry, research, fiction, and more are all acceptable. Find more guidelines here! Please send submissions … Continued
CFP: Medical Heritage Library 2020 Conference

The Medical Heritage Library, Inc. is hosting an online conference to celebrate a decade of digitizing primary resources in the history of medicine on Friday November 13, 2020. The Medical Heritage Library is a digital curation collaborative among some of … Continued

Health Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Venue for Exploration

We are a group of researchers dedicated to linking the humanities and health sciences through student-centered research projects, innovative curricula, and public engagement. Our mission is to help prepare the next generation to think across disciplines, consult their values and passions, and tackle real-world problems to create meaningful social change.

Admissions for the English M.A. concentration in Literature, Medicine, and Culture are open every fall. In this interdisciplinary program, students can focus on Global Health; Medicine and the Arts; Constructions of Illness; Narrative Medicine; Race, Justice, and Health. Courses can be taken in departments across the university, including social medicine, occupational therapy, anthropology, and English.