Jackie Leung discusses “The Cost of Being Homeless: Your Life”
Jackie Leung discusses the importance of community health workers in public health.
Tell me your story: the practice of medicine in narrative terms, by Sofia Weiss Goitiandia
In this blog post, Sofia Weiss Goitiandia writes about the centrality of narratives and storytelling in medicine. Long story short: in healthcare, the words we use matter.
Sofia Weiss Goitiandia makes “The Case for Interdisciplinarity”
The most personal blog post yet, as Sofia Weiss Goitiandia reflects on her own experiences to propose interdisciplinarity as a means of finding purpose and meaning in medicine.
Joanna Burke-Bajaj on moving from health-related deservingness to rights-based approaches to health
Health with Humanity By Joanna Burke-Bajaj Moving from Health-Related Deservingness to Rights-Based Approaches to Health The concept of deservingness is a social idea related to the moral judgements and biased assumptions that we make about whether or not, or to what degree, others are deserving of what they receive. In a sense, the idea of […]
Breaking the ice: A glance at therapeutic hypothermia
Zaitoon By Dr. Butool Hisam Breaking the Ice: A Glance at Therapeutic Hypothermia Dr. Anne Bagenholm rescue: Image copied from CNN Article. https://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/12/cheating.death.bagenholm/ 20 May 1999 was the chosen date for a number of people and fate itself. For Dr. Anne Bagenholm, a surgical assistant at the Narvik Hospital, Norway, it was the day she […]
Jackie Leung discusses “Community Health Workers in Public Health”
Jackie Leung discusses the importance of community health workers in public health.
Black Lives Matter – Part 2: Health inequities between black men and women
Studies have shown that even though the Tuskegee study took place decades ago—the mistrust primarily among black men has become a barrier to accessing health services.
Javaid Iqbal discusses the role of machine learning in healthcare
The i-value By Javaid Iqbal Role of Machine Learning in Healthcare Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning have emerged as one of the most important technologies of Industrial Revolution 4.0. The use of AI and ML will transform and disrupt healthcare as large quantities of data will be transformed into insights for improving the diagnosis of […]
The Value of Volunteers: How Volunteering Improves Health Outcomes
Elizana-Marie Joseph discusses how volunteering positively impacts individual and community health outcomes.
Dr. Heather Tillewein discusses body modification and gender violence
This blog will focus on the realities of how traditional/cultural body modification reinforces gender violence due to cultural norms.
