Professor Emily Mendenhall Awarded Prestigious Fellowship for Long COVID Research
Professor Emily Mendenhall, a leading medical anthropologist at Georgetown University, has been awarded a prestigious fellowship recognizing her influential work at the intersection of health, culture, and society. Professor Mendenhall plans to focus her research on the long-term impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, with particular attention to persistent and previously unrecognized symptoms of the virus. Her work brings an anthropological lens to post-pandemic health, emphasizing how social context, inequality, and lived experience shape illness and recovery. The award underscores the importance of medical anthropology in addressing complex, ongoing public health challenges beyond the acute phase of disease.