The Politics of Health in the U.S. South – conference chair
Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN, United StatesSpeakers include: Melissa Harris-Perry (MSNBC Host and Wake Forest Professor) Jesmyn Ward...
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Teaching Social Justice and Health Equity in an Age of Polarization
The Bentley Reserve, Second Floor Lounge 400 Sansome Street Entrance, San Francisco, CA, United StatesProfessor 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.
$25
Gun Policy in Trump’s America
Institute for Public Knowledge 20 Cooper Square, 5th floor, New York, NY, United StatesThe Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU invites you to join us for a panel discussion with leading legislators, activists, journalists, and academics to debate gun policy and it’s everyday effects under the most overtly pro-gun administration in modern memory.
Free
“What Makes Black Girls, Blue?” Creating Mental Wellness Climates for Black Women and Girls – Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls
Rayburn House Office Building - room 2044 45 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC, United States“What Makes Black Girls, Blue?” Creating Mental Wellness Climates for Black Women...
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, and the Politics of American Firearms: Changing the Terms of the Debate
Toland Hall Auditorium 533 Parnassus Avenue, room 142, San Francisco, CA, United StatesFour assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the US: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that effective gun control laws will not prevent such incidents. Professor Metzl will discuss how these assumptions about gun violence are incorrectly linked to stereotypes of mental illness and race in the United States. These issues become obscured when mass shootings are framed as representative of all gun crime, and when “mentally ill” ceases to be a medical designation and becomes encoded as violent threat.
2017 Gun Violence Prevention Summit, hosted by Americans for Responsible Solutions and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Constitution Level 1000 H Street, NW, Washington, DC, United States
Art & The Politics of Health – TFAFORUM 2017
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.
Gun Violence Prevention: A Community Conversation
Light Hall - Vanderbilt University Medical Center 1301 Medical Center Dr, Nashville, TN, United StatesFirearms have become increasingly prevalent in daily life over the past decade, as states like Tennessee loosen regulations governing most aspects of gun sales, purchases, and public carry privileges. This expansion raises a number of questions that an expert panel of academics, politicians, and activists will address...
Mental Illness, Mass Shootings, & the Politics of American Firearms | UC Davis Behavioral Health Center of Excellence
UC Davis Health Education Building, Lecture Hall 1222 4610 X Street, Sacramento, CA, United StatesFour assumptions frequently arise in the aftermath of mass shootings in the United States: (1) that mental illness causes gun violence, (2) that psychiatric diagnosis can predict gun crime, (3) that shootings represent the deranged acts of mentally ill loners, and (4) that gun control “won’t prevent” such incidents. Professor Metzl will address how assumptions about gun violence incorrectly link to stereotypes of mental illness and race in the United States.
When the Shooter is White: Race, Mental Illness, and the Politics of American Firearms | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Levis Faculty Center, Room 300 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana, IL, United StatesIn this talk, Prof. Metzl addresses how the automatic assumption that white shooters are isolated, deranged individuals conveys the subtle message that whiteness in general, and white masculinity specifically, is not connected to any larger cultures, networks or ideologies that might foment violence.