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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....
Professor Gilbert Gonzales awarded the 2023 Chancellor’s Cup
Mar. 28, 2024—Medicine, Health, and Society professor Gilber Gonzales was awarded the 2023 Chancellor’s Cup for his contribution to undergraduate relationships between students and faculty outside of the classroom. Gonzales’s research considers the ways public policy impacts members of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as examining the impacts of health care reforms on vulnerable populations. Professor Gonzales...
Lucie Kalousová joins the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology
Mar. 22, 2024—Professor Kalousová has recently joined the editorial board of the British Journal of Sociology – a leading international sociological journal published on behalf of the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She will contribute to the leadership of the journal with her expertise in health disparities.
Tara McKay publishes article on the impact of Covid on African countries
Mar. 20, 2024—Assistant Professor Dr. Tara McKay of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society published “The Missing Millions: Uncovering the Burden of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths in the African Region” this week in Population and Development Review. McKay and her colleagues at Vanderbilt and American University evaluated current data and research in order to gain a...
Julie Ward publishes analysis of police shootings in the United States
Mar. 14, 2024—Assistant Professor Julie Ward’s, RN, PhD, MN, study on fatal and non-fatal police shootings in the United States from 2015-2020 was published in the April edition of the American Journal of Public Health. This multiyear study was a joint effort with the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions and sought to compare fatal and nonfatal shootings by...
Vandy In Health: A roundtable with MHS Alumni on Navigating Careers in Health
Mar. 1, 2024—Vandy In Health: A Roundtable with MHS Alumni on Navigating Careers in Health Thursday, March 21st Buttrick 344 12:15-1:15
Dominique P. Béhague Examines the Role of Mental Health Care in Social Justice
Feb. 28, 2024—A new study led by Dominique P. Béhague of Vanderbilt University and Kings College London, along with her Brazilian colleagues, delves into the role of socially sensitive therapy in addressing mental health concerns. Read full article HERE. Mad In America article HERE.
Spring 2024 Advising Pizza Party
Jan. 29, 2024—Spring 2024 Advising Pizza Party When: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 Where: Sarratt Promenade Time: 12:00 – 2:00pm
Laura Stark discusses history’s lessons for AI regulation in ‘New England Journal of Medicine’
Dec. 14, 2023—The future for AI regulation is currently being charted in the United States and will have significant effects on the health sciences, writes Vanderbilt researcher Laura Stark in a new article published in The New England Journal of Medicine. See the full article HERE
The Protest Psychosis & the Future of Equity & Diversity Efforts in American Psychiatry by Author Jonathan M. Metzl
Nov. 30, 2023—Author Information Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms (forthcoming 2024), Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland (2019), The Protest Psychosis:...