Archive: Emily Mendenhall

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 27: “Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions”, Scientific American Looks at Emily Mendenhall’s Research About Attitudes Toward Masks

In this episode of the "COVID, Quickly", Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman look at Emily Mendenhall's research on people's attitudes…

April 1, 2022

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Launch of Emily Mendenhall’s New Book Unmasked

On March 19, 2022, Emily Mendenhall and Rebecca Katz met at the Politics and Prose independent bookstore to discuss her recently launched book,.…

March 19, 2022

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Unmasked

In this book, Emily Mendenhall writes about what happened in her hometown, Okoboji, a small Iowan tourist town, when a collective turn from the coronavirus to the economy…

March 16, 2022

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“What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, Emily Mendenhall’s Reflections on Scary Mommy

"What stories will we tell our grandchildren? How will the pandemic look to us in 10, 20, 30 years, or more? How will the pandemic period affect how we relate to each other in…

March 8, 2022

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NutrireCoLab Episode 6: Emily Mendenhall Interviews Lauren Carruth about her New Book Love and Liberation

Emily Mendenhall interviews medical anthropologist Lauren Carruth about her decades of work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Carruth describes how she traveled around the…

March 2, 2022

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NutrireCoLab Episode 7: Interview with Professor Emily Mendenhall about her New Book Unmasked

Lauren Carruth interviews Emily Mendenhall about how people in her hometown in northwest Iowa responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. She describes why people unmasked and how social…

March 1, 2022

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“Words about Mental Health Need to Align with People’s Understanding of Well Being”, Piece Co-Authored by Emily Mendenhall in The Conversation

The authors explain how patient perceptions of health may not always align with medical.…

February 21, 2022

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Emily Mendenhall Talked at the Public Health Conversation on Mental Health and Trauma: Context and Consequences, at the Boston University School of Public Health

Emily Mendenhall was a speaker at the Boston University School of Public Health's public health conversation on “Mental Health and Trauma: Context and Consequences”,…

February 14, 2022

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NutrireCoLab Episode 5: Edna Bosire in Conversation with Emily Mendenhall on her Work at the Intersection of Health, Nutrition, Anthropology, and Health Systems

Emily Mendenhall interviews her longtime colleague Edna Bosire about her personal journey in the field of anthropology, and her work at the intersection of health, nutrition,…

February 14, 2022

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Women in Research: Christopher Tancock Interviews Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall talks with Christopher Tancock about her work as co-Editor-in-Chief of the Social Science and Medicine-Mental Health journal, and the biggest challenges and…

February 14, 2022