Health

06

May

Autoethnography and COVID-19: A Journal of Autoethnography Forum

Because COVID is ubiquitous, it is exhausting. However, we also knew we needed to do something. This forum is our compromise.

04

May

Q&A with Mara Buchbinder, author of Scripting Death

Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted …

22

Apr

Advances in Global Health now open for submissions

“We join the many organizations worldwide that have made commitments to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals and advancement of human health, and expect that the journal will serve as a valuable outlet for scholarship from researchers worldwide, and in particular those from low- to middle-income countries”

12

Apr

Breaking the Cycle of Health Crises

By Martin Halliwell, author of American Health Crisis: One Hundred Years of Panic, Planning, and Politics This guest post is part of our #OAH2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more and …

07

Apr

World Health Day: One Year of COVID-19, What Have We Learned?

This World Health Day, The World Health Organization is calling for action to eliminate health inequities, as part of a year-long global campaign to build a fairer, healthier world. COVID-19 has brought …

08

Mar

The “Inner Revolution” Happening in China Today

By Li Zhang, author of Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy This guest post is part of our #AAS2021 conference series. Visit our virtual exhibit to learn more. The breathless pace of …

25

Jan

What does teen pregnancy prevention have to do with the COVID-19 pandemic?

By Chris Barcelos, author of Distributing Condoms and Hope: The Racialized Politics of Youth Sexual Health The COVID-19 crisis has brought the language and practices of public health into our lives like …

08

Dec

Ambulance Crews on the Front Lines of Urban Suffering

This blog post originally appeared on the USC Equity Research Institute blog, and it is reproduced here with permission. By Josh Seim, author of Bandage, Sort, and Hustle: Ambulance Crews on the Front …

13

Nov

Struggling to “Have a Life” – How Adolescents Navigate Psychiatric Care

This post is part of our #RaisingOurVoices2020 blog series. Learn more at our American Anthropological Association virtual exhibit. By Janis H. Jenkins and Thomas J. Csordas, co-authors of Troubled in the Land of …

10

Nov

Advances in Global Health: A Q&A with Editor-in-Chief Craig Cohen

Advances in Global Health embraces the call for decolonizing and democratizing global health.