By Baylee Materia When Lorena Millo set foot on UNC’s campus as a first-generation English major, a career in the health professions was nothing more than a distant possibility. It was not until she found her way to UNC’s health … Read more

By Teja Siripurapu Professor Buchbinder’s January 20, 2022 Health Humanities Grand Rounds talk delved into the complex landscape of medically assisted dying. The basis for this talk was framed through the ethnographic research conducted for Dr. Buchbinder’s book Scripting Death: … Read more

Here at the HHIVE Lab, we recognize and emphasize the importance of a humanitarian approach to healthcare. Through every project we tackle, we seek to promote critical thinking skills, cultural humility, historical competence, and an overall interdisciplinary spirit. Though the … Read more

By Jacqueline Gu Anne Feng (’18) fondly remembers reading illness narratives as a student in LMC classes because they helped her realize the type of care she wants to provide as a physician. Anne, now a fourth-year medical student at … Read more

The National Humanities Center is hosting a virtual, interdisciplinary conference from April 11-14, 2022. “A Crisis of Caring: The Humanities and Our Health” will explore how humanistic approaches can help identify the symptoms and causes of our malaise while guiding … Read more

Americares, one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies, is looking for a paid summer undergraduate health communications intern to work on the CDC-funded Reinforcing COVID-19 Vaccine Confidence project. The health communications intern will contribute to … Read more

Looking for an exciting summer study-abroad course? Consider Visual Approaches to Global Health (AFST S350 / FILM S340 / HLTH S350), a Yale University Summer Session abroad in Johannesburg, South Africa. This course combines traditional epidemiological and public/global health study … Read more