Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

This special issue of Health and Human Rights Journal, honoring the legacy of Paul Farmer, is co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. Co-editors include former BCSM VS Carlos Piñones-Rivera, BCSM grad student ...Read more about Global Voices for Global Justice: Expanding Right to Health Frameworks

The San Francisco Chronicle published an op-ed by Stacy Torres, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, about her...Read more about My Path to Academia Was a Hollywood Story, but It Shouldn't Take Miracles

Alein Haro-Ramos, graduate student affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is first author of a new article in AJPM Focus. In this article, the authors analyze how social disadvantage, but not self-reported racial discrimination, explained...Read more about Discrimination and Disadvantage in COVID-19 Vaccine Uptakes

Denise Herd, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate, is quoted in this SF Chronicle article discussing the increase in...Read more about Apathy and the Winter Surge of COVID

The PBS NewsHour featured the UC Berkeley Disability Lab, led by Karen Nakamura, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine. The lab examines how making tools, modifying existing ones, and reimagining environments in order to navigate spaces and use...Read more about The Everyday Innovation of People with Disabilities in Spaces and Products

Stacy Torres, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, published an op-ed on the UC academic workers' strike. Sharing her own financial...Read more about Support for UC Academic Workers

Khiara Bridges, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, wrote the foreword to Harvard Law Review's annual issue summing up the previous year's Supreme Court cases. Bridges highlights the...Read more about Khiara Bridges Reflects on the Supreme Court

Enveloped Lives: Caring and Relating in Lithuanian Health Care explores the complex doctor-patient interactions that revolve around the integral...Read more about New Book on Health Care, Money, and Relationships

Video now available of this session at the American Anthropological Association organized by BCSM Co-Chair Charles Briggs.Read more about Medical Anthropologists Remember Dr. Paul Farmer

Mahasin Mujahid, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is the ...Read more about Mahasin Mujahid: New Head of Division of Berkeley Epidemiology