Recommended by: Imani Brooks Photo by Hal Ozart on Unsplash The Friendship Bench is a national and international mental health intervention that started in Zimbabwe. The community based intervention focuses on problem-solving therapy, where the patient identifies a problem, rather than a diagnosis, symptom or label.…
Recommended by Imani Brooks Interested in exploring some new health app technology? Need a new prescription? If you have an iPhone, a desktop or laptop and a credit card, you might be able to get a new eyeglass prescription right…
Recommended by Imani Brooks On Oprah Winfrey's SuperSoul Conversations podcast, she interviews Dr. Dean and Anne Ornish about their new book “Undo It!: How Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Reverse Most Chronic Diseases.” Click on the link to hear some of…
Do you love food and want to contribute to a great cause? Come to Eat to Beat, one of Emory’s best food truck festivals of the year! Hosted by Delta Phi Epsilon, at this event, you can not only eat…
Recommendations for health related events, activities, and resources "Boo", Made You Run Recommended by Adaora Ntukogu If you love Halloween and are looking for a unique twist to your Halloween festivities, the Atlanta Halloween Half Marathon and 5K is the…
By: Imani Brooks FX’s Pose is a new popular tv show about the underground ball scene in New York City during the late '80s and early ‘90s. While giving viewers a glimpse of the transgender social scene at the time,…
Photo by Jens Johnsson on Unsplash By: Adaora Ntukogu For our Health Beyond Blog series today, I want to encourage our readers to leave the blogs, movies, and even books behind and get some movement into your weekend! Below are some easy tips…
Recommendations for health related events, activities, and resources Breathe Recommended by Yeeun Lee Searching for a lighthearted movie to watch on a Friday night, I came across Breathe. What started off as a typical romantic movie quickly took an unexpected…
Recommendations for health related events, activities, and resources The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai Recommended by Dr. Jennifer Sarrett I've been reading The Great Believers, a wonderful novel that is set in both the early-mid 1980s and 2015. These storylines…
By: Amanda Freeman Throughout the semester, a course taught by Emory's Dr. Amanda Freemen (Center for the Study of Human Health) and Lisa Paulsen (Theater) titled "Storytelling for Scientists" has examined how storytelling techniques can be used to make presentation…