Archive: Lakshmi Krishnan
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The Georgetown Voice Talks with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan about Racial Disparities in Healthcare and Science
On its coverage of “Such a Time As This”, the Racial Justice and the University Series, The Georgetown Voice presents the five events held during October 2020 that brought together faculty members working in related fields to explore dimensions of racial structures in the United States, as well as the connections of their research to global questions of racial justice.
Category: Media
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“A Tale of Two Pandemics: Historical Insights on Persistent Racial Disparities” Uses the Form of Comics Journalism to Highlight Research Co-Authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan
In a “A Tale of Two Pandemics: Historical Insights on Persistent Racial Disparities,” Josh Neufeld uses the form of comics journalism to highlight research co-authored by Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan.
Category: Media
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“Medical Humanities in a Pandemic: Essential and Critical”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Anna Reisman account for the invaluable insights that the humanities offer the biomedical sciences during the COVID-19 pandemic, as a means of examining themselves, their profession, and the broader social context.
Category: Scholarship
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“Such a Time As This”: Racial Justice and the University Series: Racial Justice, Science, and Health
This series of conversations explored how Georgetown faculty’s research advances racial justice. The sessions considered how racial justice produces certain responsibilities for researchers. They also examined how the pursuit of justice informs the impact of the speakers’ work. Beyond focusing on individual work, they also explored how the mission of Georgetown University informs and supports this work.
Category: Past events
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Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Featured in the Shakti: Powerful Feminine: A Navarātri 2020 Speaker Series
In October 2020, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan was featured in the Shakti: Powerful Feminine: A Navarātri 2020 Speaker Series. The event centered on impactful South Asian women coming from different realms but united by their energy and boldness. It was co-sponsored by Georgetown Hindu Student Association, Georgetown University’s Women’s Center, Georgetown University’s Dharmic Life, Yale University Chaplain’s Office, and Princeton University Hindu Life Program.
Category: Past events
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Making Communities: Public Science in the Time of COVID-19. A Conversation featuring Margaret Talbot (New Yorker) and Don Undeen (Georgetown’s Maker Hub)
What happens when supply line production of essential goods and equipment is disrupted? Can public science offer solutions? Citizen scientists and community labs are developing everything from affordable insulin to low-cost, open-source medical supplies. During the COVID-19 pandemic, maker communities such as Georgetown’s Maker Hub began producing personal protective equipment (PPE) for local healthcare facilities.
Category: Past events
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“Taking Pandemic Sequelae Seriously: From the Russian Influenza to COVID-19 Long-Haulers”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Mark Honigsbaum look back to the Russian influenza and the historical accounts of the sequelae to make sense of the experience of the COVID-19 long-haulers in the present.
Category: Scholarship
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“Why African Americans Were More Likely to Die During the 1918 Flu Pandemic”, Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan Explains in the History Channel
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan explains how African Americans lived during the 1918 influenza epidemic to the History Channel.
Category: Media
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“Historical Insights on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, and Racial Disparities: Illuminating a Path Forward”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan, Dr. S. Michelle Ogunwole and Dr. Lisa A. Cooper examine the racial health disparities in the historical arc of the 1918 influenza pandemic. This examination provides a understand critical structural inequities and health care gaps that have historically contributed to and continue to compound disparate health outcomes among communities of color.
Category: Scholarship
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The Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group Talked with Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan & Michelle Ogunwole about Racial Disparities, the 1918 Pandemic and COVID 19
On July 20, 2020, the Coronavirus Multispecies Reading Group invited Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Michelle Ogunwole to talk about racial disparities, the 1918 pandemic and COVID 19.
Category: Past events