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Now Hiring: Full-Time Senior Lecturer
Oct. 21, 2025—Senior Lecturer: The Department of Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) at Vanderbilt University invites applications for the position of Senior Lecturer to develop and teach critical undergraduate and graduate courses focused on Health and Social Media, Healthism, and/or the effects of Health Influencers. This is a full-time position, not on the tenure track, for a...
Now Hiring: Part-Time Lecturer
Oct. 21, 2025—Lecturer: The Department of Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) at Vanderbilt University seeks a part-time instructor to teach an undergraduate course offered twice annually on the social dimensions of health and nutrition. This course will introduce the fundamentals of nutrition while critically examining the broader contexts that shape what and how we eat, including food politics, social...
Now Hiring
Oct. 16, 2025—Lecturer: The Department of Medicine, Health, and Society (MHS) at Vanderbilt University seeks a part-time instructor to teach an undergraduate course offered twice annually on the social dimensions of health and nutrition. This course will introduce the fundamentals of nutrition while critically examining the broader contexts that shape what and how we eat, including food politics, social...
MHS Honors Student Charu Balamurugan selected as a recipient of the 2025 Access for Students to Clinical Research Training Scholarship
Mar. 20, 2025—MHS senior, Charu Balamurugan, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 Access for Students to Clinical Research Training (ASCRT) Scholarship by the Association of Clinical Research Professionals, in part due to the work she did with Dr. Kirsty Clark on her honors thesis within the department. “The ASCRT scholarship program is a significant...
Students in “American Medicine & the World” with Professor Laura Stark air a podcast episode on the New Books Network
Dec. 6, 2024—Students in “American Medicine & the World” with Professor Laura Stark air a podcast episode on the New Books Network – an interview with an author of the award-winning book, Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America. https://newbooksnetwork.com/helena-hansen-et-al-whiteout-how-racial-capitalism-changed-the-color-of-opioids-in-america-u-california-press-2023
Tara McKay won a National Institutes of Health Sexual and Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award
Nov. 18, 2024—Associate Professor Tara McKay of Medicine Health and Society Dr. Tara McKay was awarded a Gender Minority Mid-Career Investigator Award by the National Institutes of Health. To learn more about this award, please visit: NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Investigator Awards Program | DPCPSI
Tara McKay honored at the Fall Faculty Assembly with the Chancellors Award
Aug. 27, 2024—Associate Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society Tara McKay was selected as a recipient of the Chancellors Award for Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the 2024 Fall Faculty Assembly. McKay was honored for her work on an article published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine titled “Association of Affirming Care with Chronic Disease...
Alum Finn Shelp-Peck publishes paper written while in the M.A. program
Jun. 20, 2024—Finn Shelp-Peck (M.A. ’23) published “The necessity of including gender-affirming care in student health insurance plans” this week in The Journal of American College Health. Shelp-Peck wrote the paper while in the MHS M.A. in the Social Foundations of Health program. You can read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1080/07448481.2024.2362330
Kirsty Clark selected as 2024 Advocate of the Year from the Office of LGBTQI Life
May. 1, 2024—Assistant Professor of Medicine, Health, and Society Kirsty Clark has been selected as Advocate of the Year for 2024 from the Office of LGBTQI Life. “The Advocate of the Year Award is given to someone who lives their commitment to justice and is a posture for service. This person centers intentionality, uses their position in...
Julie Ward and team awarded funding to support ERPO research
Apr. 24, 2024—MHS professor Dr. Julie Ward and her team at the Center for Gun Violence Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have been awarded funding from the National Collaboration on Gun Violence Research to support their study on the local variation in extreme risk protection order (ERPOs) implementation across 67 Florida counties....