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Bullitt History of Medicine Club: “AIDS and the Americans with Disabilities Act at Quarter Century”

Travis Alexander, Mellon Graduate Fellow, Department of English and Comparative Literature, UNC-Chapel HillThis talk will discuss the political motivations behind the Americans with Disabilities Act's inclusion of HIV/AIDS under the banner of "disability." Travis Alexander is a Mellon Graduate Fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill. His research focuses on critical race studies, queer theory, and psychoanalysis. His … Read more

6th Annual UNC Health & Human Rights Lecture

ARE HUMAN RIGHTS RELEVANT TO ADVANCING GLOBAL HEALTH ANYMORE?Alicia Ely Yamin, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center Adjunct Lecturer on Law and Global Health, Harvard University Panelist, UN Secretary General’s Independent Accountability Panel for the SDGs (EWEC) Global Fellow, Centre on Law and Social Transformation (Norway)

Dismantling Racism in Health Research. Historical Perspectives & Strategies for Today

The Dismantling Racism in Medicine Coalition, a group of students in the health sciences and the medical school, is putting on an interdisciplinary discussion on identifying and adopting anti-racist practices in health research.Panel Guests: Giselle Corbie-Smith, MD, MsC Center for Health Equity Research, Geni Eng, DrPH, MPH Department of Health Behavior, Raul Necochea, PhD Departments … Read more

The 2017 Merrimon Lecture: “Pathways to Trust: Genomics, Precision Medicine, and Health Disparities”.

Wylie Burke, MD, PhD is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington, Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics). Her work focuses on the ethical and policy implications of genetic information in research and health care. She co-directs the Northwest-Alaska Pharmacogenomics Research Network, a research partnership involving … Read more

2017-2018 Health Workforce Research and Policy Seminar Series: How the Sausage Gets Made: Influencing Policy at the North Carolina Legislature”

What goes into the development of a bill at the legislature? When are data influential and when are they not? Experts Gerry Cohen and Alex Miller will answer questions about how state policy is made and how your research can influence it. • Gerry Cohen, JD, MA, has been deemed both the 'encyclopedia to the … Read more

Trent History of Medicine Lecture: Race, Medicine, Authorship and the ‘Discovery’ of Sickle Cell Disease in 1910-1911

We are very pleased to have Todd Savitt, Ph.D., present Race, Medicine, Authorship and the ‘Discovery’ of Sickle Cell Disease in 1910-1911. The first two case histories of sickle cell disease (SCD) appeared in the medical literature within three months of each other in 1910 and 1911. The very divergent stories of the first two … Read more

The Department of Health Behavior is excited to be hosting a talk by HIV/AIDS researcher and HB alumnus Derrick Matthews, PhD

Derrick D. Matthews, PhD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health. His research focuses on the disproportionate burden the HIV epidemic has on Black gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (MSM) in the US. His … Read more

Documentary: “Clinica de Migrantes”

Free screening! All are welcome!Synopsis: (from Third Party Films productions) “Clinica de Migrantes is a medical drama about a year in the life of Puentes, one of the only health clinics in the US involved in the politically controversial practice of providing health care to undocumented migrants. By law, illegal immigrants cannot obtain health insurance, … Read more

Health Humanities Grand Rounds with Dr. Dorita S. Berger “Music and Brain Plasticity: A Look at Music Therapy”

Dorita S. Berger, PhD, MT-BC, LCAT is a sensorimotor music therapist and autism specialist as well as a Research Affiliate and Supervisor for various music-based investigations in Dr. Flavio Frohlich’s Neuroscience Lab. She is the 2017 recipient of an American Music Therapy Association Award of Merit for her contributions to the field of Music-Based Treatment. … Read more