Berkeley Center for Social Medicine

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The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine critically engages the intersection of social systems, social difference, health and health care in the United States and across the globe. 

Founded in 2013, the Center links to the discipline of social medicine internationally by bringing together Bay Area scholars from the social and historical sciences who are working on questions related to medicine, the health sciences, public health, global health, the social structuring of suffering, violence and the body.  

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

Study on Sea Level Rise and Toxics

January 28, 2026

Rachel Morello, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, is co-author of a new article in Nature that is an environmental justice examination of how projected 2050 and 2100...Read more about Study on Sea Level Rise and Toxics

Recent faculty book: Advancing Peace

January 21, 2026

Jason Corburn, a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, co-authored Advancing Peace, a new book discussing the end of gun violence in America's Black and Brown...Read more about Recent faculty book: Advancing Peace

The complicated role of media in motherhood

December 11, 2025

Hannah Zeavin, a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, explores how 20th-century ideals of motherhood and new media technologies became deeply intertwined, shaping and surveilling American family life....Read more about The complicated role of media in motherhood

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