Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

A new article in the Journal of Medical Humanities co-authored by Jennifer James, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affliliate, highlights the ...Read more about Black Bioethics in the Age of Black Lives Matter

Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless named Jeffrey Schonberg, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affliate, as a G.G. Greenhouse Community Hero....Read more about Jeffrey Schonberg Recognized for Advocacy

This Op-Ed in the San Francisco Chronicle, co-authored by Carlos Martinez, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine,...Read more about No, Deporting Undocumented Immigrants won’t Solve the Fentanyl Crisis

Charles Briggs, Berkeley Center for Social Medicine Co-Chair, was elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Briggs, a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, holds the Alan Dundes...Read more about Charles Briggs Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Rachel Morello-Frosch, faculty affiliate of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and Osagie Obasogie have a new article in the New England Journal of Medicine diving into the climate gap. While climate change poses a threat to all planetary life, the authors...Read more about Racial Health Inequities and Climate Change

"Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics," a talk by Jennifer James, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and UCSF Bioethicsis now available for...Read more about "Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics" Video Available

A report co-authored by three Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty members, Amani Allen, Rachel Morello-Frosch, and Mahasin S. Mujahid, is profiled in this Berkeley Public Health story, "...Read more about Intergenerational Effects of Redlining on Maternal Health

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