Archive: Emily Mendenhall
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“The COVID-19 Syndemic Is Not Global: Context Matters”
In this publication, Emily Mendenhall argues that, before defining a disease like COVID-19 as a syndemic, we need to look at the context.…
October 22, 2020
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“Evaluating the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Childhood Trauma Predict Adult Depressive Symptoms in Urban South Africa”
Emily Mendenhall, Andrew Wooyoung Kim and Tawanda Nyengerai evaluate the mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Soweto, a major township in South Africa, a society…
September 8, 2020
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“Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Line between Trauma and Diabetes”
Emily Mendenhall argues for clinical studies of diabetes to recognize the impacts of chronic stress and trauma on metabolism. In her anthropological research, she has identified…
August 24, 2020
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“How an Iowa Summer Resort Region Became a COVID-19 Hot Spot”, Emily Mendenhall Writes about her Research in Vox
Drawing on her research about the COVID-19 response in the Iowa Great Lakes region, Emily Mendenhall writes about the high number of cases and people's reluctance to wear masks,…
August 8, 2020
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“America Should Prepare for a Double Pandemic”, The Atlantic Explores Emily Mendenhall’s Research
On its coverage of America's need to prepare for new disease outbreaks, The Atlantic highlights Emily Mendenhall's research about syndemics and the influence that every aspect of…
July 15, 2020
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The Health Disparities Podcast: Both Pandemic and Syndemic – How Clusters of Preexisting Comorbid Conditions Have Driven Up Fatalities, featuring Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like
Emily Mendenhall and Robert Like discuss the syndemic concept with host Mary O’Connor, to explain why certain populations are disproportionately impacted by COVID-19, and offer…
May 22, 2020
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“Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and Emotion among Mexican Immigrant Women”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate traumatic experience in life history narratives of low-income Mexican immigrant women in.…
February 11, 2020
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“Preparing for Emerging Infections Means Expecting New Syndemics”
Emily Mendenhall and Colin J. Carlson explain the importance of syndemic thinking in complicating our understanding of epidemics like the Zika virus outbreak in Latin America and…
July 27, 2019
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Emily Mendenhall on Why We Need to Rethink Diabetes
Emily Mendenhall challenges the idea that diabetes is a “lifestyle disease”, which views individuals as solely responsible for diabetes. Mendenhall argues that diabetes is a…
July 18, 2019
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Rethinking Diabetes
In Rethinking Diabetes, Emily Mendenhall investigates how global and local factors transform how diabetes is perceived, experienced, and embodied from place to.…
July 15, 2019