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Professor Aimi Hamraie and collaborator Kelsie Acton published an account of their Remote Access Archive project on the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech platform
Jun. 29, 2022—Professor Aimi Hamraie and collaborator Kelsie Acton published an account of their Remote Access Archive project on the Social Science Research Council’s Just Tech platform. The project documents ways that disabled people have used remote participation technologies, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further research is funded by the National Science Foundation for the 2022-2023...
Vanderbilt LGBTQ+ Policy Lab founders conduct first research on health effects of legal same-sex marriage
Jun. 22, 2022—Christopher Carpenter, LGBTQ+ Policy Lab Director, E. Bronson Ingram Chair, and professor of economics, and Gilbert Gonzales, lab associate director and assistant professor of medicine, health, and society.Read more here.
In Science magazine, Prof Laura Stark publishes review of Puglionesi’s In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession & Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner)
May. 31, 2022—In Science magazine, Prof Laura Stark publishes review of Puglionesi’s In Whose Ruins: Power, Possession & Landscapes of American Empire (Scribner). Read it here.
Professor Aimi Hamraie was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project Disability Culture and Technology.
May. 3, 2022—Professor Aimi Hamraie was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for their project Disability Culture and Technology. The grant will support the creation of a public archive documenting the ways that disabled people have used technology for remote participation, both before and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Read more here.
Prof Laura Stark lectures on the legacies of medicine, anthropology & the ethics of history at the American Association for the History of Medicine, April 22, 2022.
Apr. 29, 2022—Prof Laura Stark lectures on the legacies of medicine, anthropology & the ethics of history at the American Association for the History of Medicine, April 22, 2022.
Professor Martha Jones gave a presentation to the Tennessee Department of Health, Occupational Health Advisory Committee Meeting for the Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program
Feb. 8, 2022—On January 27, 2022, Professor Martha Jones gave a presentation to the Tennessee Department of Health, Occupational Health Advisory Committee Meeting for the Occupational Health and Safety Surveillance Program. Her presentation was on injury and illness incidence rates using workers’ compensation data, with a focus on the full-time-equivalent employee denominator calculation.
Professor Behague presents her work as part of the “Biosocial Birth Cohort Research Network” funded by the Wellcome Trust and coordinated by Professor Sahra Gibbon (UCL).
Jan. 31, 2022—Professor Behague presents her work as part of the “Biosocial Birth Cohort Research Network” funded by the Wellcome Trust and coordinated by Professor Sahra Gibbon (UCL). To see the talk – “Biosocial theory and the politics of developmental disruption: Reflections on interdisciplinary practice in the 1982 Pelotas birth cohort study” — click here.
Behague gives talk on COVID-19 and solidarity in Brazil
Jan. 31, 2022—Behague gives talk on COVID-19 and solidarity in Brazil at the Conference: “Recovery, reconfiguration, and repair: Mobilising the social sciences and humanities for a post-pandemic world” (Deakin University, Victoria, Australia, 11-12 November 2021) Online. Read more here.
Professor Behague publishes new article with colleague Francisco Ortega in the journal “Global Public Health”
Jan. 26, 2022—Professor Behague publishes new article with colleague Francisco Ortega in the journal “Global Public Health” entitled “Contested leadership and the governance of COVID-19 in Brazil: The role of local government and community activism” Read it here.
A study co-led by Professor Dominique Béhague found that Brazilian citizens without traditional public health expertise have stepped up and worked together in poor neighborhoods known as favelas to make significant strides in their community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oct. 27, 2021— A study co-led by Vanderbilt University’s Dominique Béhague found that Brazilian citizens without traditional public health expertise have stepped up and worked together in poor neighborhoods known as favelas to make significant strides in their community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. See details of the study here Read the study here Dominique Béhague...