Archive: Emily Mendenhall
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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 occurred in the COVID summer of 2020. State political failures, local negotiations among political and public health leaders, and community (dis)belief about the virus resulted in Okoboji being declared a hotspot just before the Independence Day weekend, when an influx of half a million people visit the town.
Category: Scholarship
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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 the future?”. These are some of the questions that Emily Mendenhall explores in her article “What Will We Tell Our Grandkids About The Last Two Years?”, published on Scary Mommy.
Category: Media
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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 country working on medical and humanitarian aid. She delves into the complexities through which love and liberation get revealed in the everyday work of local humanitarian laborers.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 relations within the community played out over the course of the pandemic. Many people were very cautious, while some people ignored public health recommendations for personal gain.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 terms.
Category: Media
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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”, presenting her work on the session centered on “Placing trauma in a social determinants of health framework”.
Category: Past events
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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, anthropology, and health systems. Bosire also provides insights into her work as an ethnographer of health policy and systems in Malawi and in her work with Health Systems Global.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 obstacles women face in the editorial world.
Category: Media
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“Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data”
Emily Mendenhall, Timothy Newfield and Alexander Tsai introduce an Special Issue of Social Science & Medicine, focused on Rethinking Syndemics through time, space, and method.
Category: Scholarship
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“Emily Mendenhall Unmasks COVID-19 Denialism in her Hometown”, the Walsh School of Foreign Service Presents Mendenhall’s New Book
The Walsh School of Foreign Service presents Emily Mendenhall’s upcoming book, “Unmasked: COVID, Community and the Case of Okoboji”. “Unmasked” unpacks the “everyday disagreements” about COVID-19 Mendenhall observed firsthand in her hometown during that first pandemic summer. The book is also an examination of the performance of politics as social and cultural practice.
Category: Media