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 insights into potential solutions.
Categories: Media, Past events
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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 Chicago.
Category: Scholarship
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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 the Caribbean.
Category: Scholarship
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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 product of society, of both global and local factors.
Category: Media
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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 place.
Category: Scholarship
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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 and several neglected tropical diseases.
Category: Scholarship
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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 chronic food insecurity, forced displacement, recurrent humanitarian crises, and lack of access to medical care.
Category: Scholarship
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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 Change.
Category: Scholarship
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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 suffering, pain, or illness.
Category: Scholarship