Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

The first two articles in a year-long series in The Lancet are now published. The series, Cases in Global Social Medicine, is led and sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine (BCSM). The introduction to the series, "...Read more about Global Social Medicine: A Case Study Approach

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, recently co-authored an article in the Journal of Primary Care & Community Health. The...Read more about Group-Based Integrative Pain Management

Elena Conis, a faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, explains how attitudes and federal policy about vaccines have evolved in the U.S. in this...Read more about The history of vaccine hesitancy, from smallpox to COVID-19

Emily Ozer, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, is co-leading a collaboration between UC Berkeley researchers and San Francisco students to investigate the causes of chronic absenteeism. In this youth-led research model, students are involved in all stages,...Read more about Partnering with SF Students to Study Chronic Absenteeism

Coco Auerswald, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, has dedicated her life to working with unhoused young people as...Read more about To understand youth experiencing homelessness, this UC Berkeley professor hires them

Jodi Halpern, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is co-author of an essay in Health Affairs discussing the 10 rules put...Read more about Improving The US Health Care System: The Case For Practical Wisdom

Carlos Martinez, faculty affiliate of the Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is co-editor of a new book, All This Safety Is Killing...Read more about All This Safety Is Killing Us: Health Justice Beyond Prisons, Police, and Borders

A podcast is now available of a Berkeley Center for Social Medicine event featuring Luke Messac. Messac discusses how the nation’s medical...Read more about Berkeley Talks: The transformation of US medical debt collection

Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, Hannah Zeavin, has a new book available. This work is an essential history for understanding how we mother now, and...Read more about “Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the Twentieth Century”