Archive: Media and Scholarship
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in the The Library of Congress Magazine’s “Stories From A Pandemic”
The September-October 2021 issue of The Library of Congress Magazine presents “Stories From A Pandemic”, a first-of-its-kind collection of audio diaries newly acquired by the Library that reveals how the pandemic also transformed the way health-care workers view their mission as healers. Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan recounts how she had to change the way she treated patients while fearing for her own life, and cautions, “if we don’t take heed, we could be in this situation again sooner rather than later.”
Category: Media
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: “Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden’s New Plan”, Scientific American Tackled Emily Mendenhall’s Research
In this episode of Scientific American’s podcast series “COVID, Quickly”, senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman explore Emily Mendenhall’s research on mask rejection in Okoboji, Iowa.
Categories: Media, Past events
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ASHA Voices Podcast: Confronting Health Care Disparities, featuring Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King, and Dr. Deliya Wesley
In the ASHA Voices podcast, Georgetown Dr. Davetrina Seles Gadson, Dr. Christopher King and Dr. Deliya Wesley explain how the COVID-19 pandemic has been drawing public attention to disparities in care that have always existed, and they shared how clinicians can confront these inequities.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“Assessing Health and Human Services Needs to Support an Integrated Health in All Policies Plan for Prince George’s County, Maryland”
This report, co-written by Dr. Christopher King for the RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, describes both the health needs and drivers of health of the Prince George’s County’s residents.
Category: Scholarship
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“How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic”, Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee in Scientific American
Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee analyze the conditions that made COVID a syndemic in the US.
Category: Media
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Always Take Notes Podcast, Episode 115: Aminatta Forna
Aminatta Forna speaks with the Always Take Notes hosts, Simon Akam and Rachel Lloyd, about her early work at the BBC, the similarities between creative non-fiction and fiction and her decision to take up a post at Georgetown University.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Third Culture Africans Podcast: Aminatta Forna, Changing the Narrative on Identity, Grief, and Appropriation
Aminatta Forna talks with Zeze Oriaikhi-Sao about about the impact words can have on people, why she thinks appropriation can cause great damage to the literary and arts world, and why the elevation of victimhood does nothing for actual progress.
Categories: Media, Past events
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“The Anthropology of Health Systems: A History and Review”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors conceptualize the anthropology of health systems as a field; review the history of this body of knowledge; and outline emergent literatures on policymaking, HIV, hospitals, Community Health Workers, health markets, pharmaceuticals, and metrics. They describe high-quality ethnographic work as an excellent way to understand the complex systems that shape health outcomes, which provides a critical vantage point for thinking about global health policy and systems.
Category: Scholarship
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COVIDCalls Podcast, Episode #320: Medical Humanities, Literature, COVID-19 w/Guest Host Jacob-Steere Williams featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje
A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic featuring Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Lorenzo Servitje – hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
Categories: Media, Past events
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Infectious Historians Podcast, Episode #72: Climate Change and the Globalization of Disease in the Early Middle Ages with Tim Newfield
Timothy Newfield talks to Merle Eisenberg and Lee Mordechai about the connected histories of climate change and diseases that become pandemics, focusing on the early medieval and late antique periods.
Categories: Media, Past events