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2015 Southwest Latino HIV/Hepatitis C Conference Join us for the 2015 Southwest...
During the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, scientists, clinicians, policy-makers and patients have...
What are the key health issues facing men today? Why do men...
Jonathan Metzl from Vanderbilt University will be giving a roundtable conversation entitled...
American Anthropological Association 2015 Annual Meeting Session: CONSIDERING ANTHROPOLOGY’S ROLE IN MEDICAL HUMANITIES...
Speakers include: Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC Host and Wake Forest Professor) Jesmyn Ward...
This workshop will detail an important and increasingly influential new framework for...
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.
Professor Metzl will explore a new educational paradigm called Structural Competency that aims to teach healthcare leaders of tomorrow ways to identify, study and intervene in these inequities. He will detail ways the "structural competency" model offers a new approach to healthcare. Structural competency is a term and concept coined by Dr. Metzl that has now become a major movement in health education.
A panel of artists, intellectuals, and culture experts discuss the many ways that artists, their friends, and loved ones negotiate the complexities of health and illness through artistic expression. We will uncover the multiple layers through which bodies and societies experience health, illness, transcendence, and being.