Events

Langford Auditorium 7:00 pm Author and television host, Melissa Harris-Perry, will lecture on issues of race, health, and justice.

Sarratt 189 Professors Derek Griffith, Jonathan Metzl, David Rubin, Stanley Thangaraj, and Gillman Whiting discuss the politics of men’s health. Reception to follow. Open to all.

300CC Calhoun Wine and cheese in our new space. Open to all.

Meharry Medical College Learning Resources Center (LRC) 2020 Meharry Blvd. Special Health Policy Lecture, Jonathan Metzl, Director, MHS

Dorothy E. Roberts -  recently named Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania will present “Fatal Invention: The New Biopolitics of Race” based on her latest book Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the … Read more →

STRUCTURAL COMPETENCY: New Medicine for the Institutional Inequalities that Make Us Sick Jonathan Metzl and Helena Hansen, Organizers Friday, March 23, 2012.  10:30am-5pm. NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, 20 Cooper Square, NY, NY, 10012. Event is free and … Read more →

February 15, 4:10 pm – 5:30 pm Reception follows Buttrick Hall 101, Vanderbilt University A Child Surrounds This Brain: The Future of neurological difference according to Scientists, Parents, and Diagnosed Young Adults Rayna Rapp, Professor of Anthropology, New York University … Read more →

These three noted experts on health care and distinguished authors will discuss how access to quality health care—or in far too many cases, any health care at all—often falls along racial lines and is an issue that activists, beginning with … Read more →

Free and open to the public Location: 208 Light Hall Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 3:00 p.m. Reception following in the North Lobby “Ethically Impossible” Sexually Transmitted Disease Research in Guatemala from 1946 to 1953 Valerie H. Bonham, J.D., Executive Director … Read more →

MHS Majors: It’s almost time to register for classes for Spring 2012! This year, MHS will be hosting three advising pizza parties to help our majors in their academic planning. Please plan to stop by for a free lunch during … Read more →