Alumni Spotlight: Anne Feng, MS4 at Harvard Medical School
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
A Crisis of Caring: NHC Conference, April 11-14, 2022
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
Paid Undergraduate Internship at Americares
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
Study Abroad in Johannesburg, South Africa: Visual Approaches to Global Health
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
Jesse Bossingham on Kristina Gupta’s Grand Rounds
Dr. Kristina Gupta is an assistant professor in the department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Wake Forest University. She spoke at the UNC Health Humanities Grand Rounds (HHGR) in a talk entitled “Beyond ‘Medical Necessity’: Transition-Related Care Before … Read more
Deadline Extended: HHC Virtual 2022 Conference
The Health Humanities Consortium has extended the deadline to submit proposals for their 2022 virtual conference! 2022 Health Humanities Consortium Virtual Conference Spaces of/for Health Humanities March 25-27, 2022 CFP: Co-hosted by the Center for Health Humanities, Massachusetts College of … Read more
Jordynn Jack Featured in National Humanities Center Podcast
HHIVE Founding Director Jordynn Jack has been featured in the Discovery and Inspiration podcast series from the National Humanities Center. Her episode, “Training the Brain: Rhetoric, Neuropolicy, and Education,” explores how contemporary public rhetorical strategies have advanced the idea that we … Read more