Archive: Emily Mendenhall

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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

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“Rapid Range Shifts in African Anopheles Mosquitoes Over the Last Century”

The team of researchers that includes Emily Mendenhall and Timothy Newfield uses historical data to trace range shifts in Anopheles mosquitoes, which are the vector of malaria…

June 19, 2019

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“‘Wasting Away’: Diabetes, Food Insecurity, and Medical Insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia”

Emily Mendenhall and Lauren Carruth investigate rising concerns about diabetes among Somalis in eastern Ethiopia. They focus on communities where obesity is rare and people face…

March 20, 2019

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“The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change”

Emily Mendenhall and Merrill Singer respond to the work the The Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate.…

February 23, 2019

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“An Ethnopsychology of Idioms of Distress in Urban Kenya”

Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors propose a preliminary model of ethnopsychology which incorporates local and global idioms of distress used by urban Kenyans to express…

January 23, 2019