Denying To the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us (Oxford University Press) was published in 2016, but has deep relevance to our world today. Authors Jack and Sara Gorman, a father-daughter team, look at why people…
For Dr. Jennifer Sarrett's Health and Human Rights course, students got in groups of 3-4 and chose an issues important to health and human rights and developed a social media campaign to bring awareness of this issue. Destination HealthEU is…
Recommended by Dr. Jennifer Sarrett As we are all hunkered down in our homes, we are watching more tv. As you are looking for something to watch, we'd like to recommend the mini-series, Babies, on Netflix. The six episode series…
Recommended by Dr. Jennifer Sarrett The Center for the Study of Human Health and Arts at Emory bring you two exciting events with Dr. Garfield Kwan, the founder of Squidtoons Comics which translates research into comics for the public. The…
Recommended by Jennifer Sarrett Today, we'd like to recommend the Foodie Pharmacology podcast by Human Health professor, Dr. Cassandra Quave. On it, Dr. Quave explores the relationship between food and medicine. It's a great listen for anyone interested in science,…
Recommended by Jennifer C. Sarrett This Spring, the Center for the Study of Human Health and Arts at Emory are teaming up to bring the community a series of events titled "Embodied". Events throughout the semester will explore the role…
Recommended by: Dr. Jennifer C Sarrett Monday, February 3rd at 4:30 Dr. Dana-Ain Davis will be at Spelman College to discuss her book, Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth. Dr. Davis is a professor of Anthropology at CUNY who…
Recommended by: Jennifer C. Sarrett Sawbones is a humorous medical history podcast featuring the McElroy's. Sydney McElroy is a physician who researches the podcast's topics while her husband, Justin McElroy, provides funny commentary. They have covered a wide range of…
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: Deanna Altomara This past semester, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study health in three different countries: Vietnam, South Africa, and Argentina. While I was stunned by many things I learned, I was particularly struck by the history of…