Announcing the Launch of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine

Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the upcoming launch of the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine. The center opens Oct 27, during its inaugural event, Media Medica: Medicine & the Challenge of New Media, a conference spanning the Homewood, East Baltimore and Bayview campuses of Johns Hopkins University.

The Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine is an intercampus, interdisciplinary initiative at The Johns Hopkins University to produce new teaching, scholarship and outreach work that brings insights from the medical humanities and social sciences into undergraduate, graduate and medical education as well as local, regional and national policy arenas.

The center will partner with academic departments and organizations across multiple campuses, such as the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; the medicine, science and humanities major; the Urban Health Institute; the Center for Innovative Medicine's Medicine for the Greater Good initiative; the Institute of the History of Medicine; the Berman Institute of Bioethics; the Center for Public Health and Human Rights; the Alliance for a Healthier World; and the Urban Health Residency Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine will also act as a home for the interdisciplinary training of doctoral students, residents and fellows across multiple schools at Johns Hopkins. Through the Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the center will host a cohort of doctoral fellows each year and support their research and professional development. While in residence, doctoral fellows will contribute to the life of the center, and develop an enriched perspective on their own research and greater ability to find traction between their social science or humanistic research and the realities of clinical medicine and health policy. For more information about the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, contact Administrative Program Coordinator Marian Robbins (myrobbins@jhmi.edu) or stop by the Media Medica event.

Sincerely,

Jeremy Greene, M.A., M.D., Ph.D.
Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine
Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine

Roy C. Ziegelstein, M.D., M.A.C.P.
Sarah Miller Coulson and Frank L. Coulson, Jr., Professor of Medicine
Mary Wallace Stanton Professor of Education
Vice Dean for Education, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine