Fall 2021 Calendar
- Aug. 12, 2021, Prof. Tara McKay will present “Struggles for Inclusion: Incorporating Same-Sex Practising Men into National HIV Prevention and Surveillance in African Countries, 2000–2020” in a Book Launch Webinar, Springer Books
- Aug. 19, 2021, 12:00pm, via Zoom, Prof. Tara McKay and Prof. Gilbert Gonzales will present their “LGBTQ Health and COVID-19 in the US South” research at the 2021 Southern LGBTQ Heath Symposium, hosted by the Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Aug. 24, 2021, 9:00-11:00am, Master’s Orientation
- Sep. 21, 2021, 1:10-2:00pm, Register for the Zoom link, “People, contexts and systems: Intersections that matter for health equity” MHS e-Colloquium with Dr. Sirry Alang, Associate Professor of Sociology and Health, Medicine and Society, and Chair of Health Justice Collaborative, Lehigh University
- Sep. 21, 2021, 4:30-5:00pm, Register for the September Zoom Session, MHS 4+1 Information Session
- Sep. 22, 2021, 4:00pm, Register for the Zoom Session, Vanderbilt MHS MA Program Information Session (for external applicants)
- Sep. 30, 2021, 12:30-12:20pm CST, MHS/GHSM Virtual Coffee Hour Series for Students presents “Nutrition and Food Security” with Saul Morris, PhD, Epidemiologist and Director of Programme Services, Gain Health
- Sep. 30, 2021, Prof. Tara McKay will present “Advancing Social Justice for LGBTQ Populations in the Global South through HIV Research and Policy” at Grand Rounds, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies, Columbia University
- Oct. 12, 2021, 1:10-2:00pm, Register for the Zoom link, Matthew Facciani, postdoctoral researcher in MHS and the LGBT Policy Lab, presents “The Intersection of Identities and Networks on Political Polarization and Misinformation”, part of the MHS e-Colloquium series
- Oct. 19, 2021, 12:00-2:00pm, Calhoun Portico, MHS Spring 2022 Registration Advising Event
- Oct. 20, 2021, 4:30-5:00pm, Register for the October Zoom Session, MHS 4+1 Information Session
- Oct. 26, 2021, 1:10-2:00pm, Register for the Zoom link, “Indigenous Biomarkers, Bioethics, and Biobanks” MHS e-Colloquium with Dr. Krystal Tsosie, incoming Assistant Professor of School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, and Co-founder of Native BioData Consortium
- Oct. 28, 2021, 12:30-12:20pm CST, MHS/GHSM Virtual Coffee Hour Series for Students presents “Politics of vaccine equity in Covid-19” with Katerini Storeng, PhD, Anthropologist, University of Oslo
- Nov. 2, 2021, 2:30-3:30pm CST, Register for Zoom link, “Pandemic America: Where the &$@! Are We Heading?” webinar symposium with featured speakers Hon. Stacey Newman (The Future of Women’s Reproductive Rights), Sam Quinones (The Future of Addiction), Melissa Harris-Perry (The Future of Social Justice Movements), Caroline Randall Williams (The Future of Narrative), moderated by Jonathan Metzl and Celina Callahan-Kapoor, co-sponsored by the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center
- Nov. 11, 2021, 12:30-12:20pm CST, MHS/GHSM Virtual Coffee Hour Series for Students presents “Healthcare as self-organized direct action: How to understand the relationship between recent protests and health?” with Cristian Montenegro, PhD, University of Exeter and Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
- Nov. 15, 2021, Prof. Tara McKay will present “Building Coalitions with Policy Makers and Practitioners” at the Queer Populations, Perspectives, and Policies Conference sponsored by the Social Policy Association, the University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Nov. 16, 2021, 1:10-2:00pm, Register for the Zoom link, Prof. Dominique Béhague and co-authors (Brazil) present an article manuscript workshop, “The Politicizing Clinic”, part of the MHS e-Colloquium series
- Dec. 2, 2021, 12:30-12:20pm CST, MHS/GHSM Virtual Coffee Hour Series for Students presents “Are we really interested in decolonizing Global Health?” with Laura Mkumba, MSc, Clinical Research Coordinator, Duke University
Upcoming spring 2022 events:
- January (TBD), 12:30-12:20pm CST, MHS/GHSM Virtual Coffee Hour Series for Students presents “Creating community with the Social Medicine On Air Podcast” with the team running the Social Medicine On Air podcast
- Mar. 1, 2022, 1:10-2:00pm, via Zoom, MHS e-Colloquium w/ Dr. James Doucet-Battle, Assistant Professor of the Department of Sociology, Science and Justice Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz