Berkeley Center for Social Medicine News

ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine co-chair Seth Holmes is lead author on this essay in the British Medical Journal. Through the lens of the current COVID-19 crisis, the authors explain the...Read more about Iatrogenesis and Harm in Covid-19

Eugene Richardson, a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, has a new book. ...Read more about Epidemic Illusions by Eugene Richardson

Coco Auerswald, a faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is quoted in this new article in The Oaklandside detailing...Read more about COVID-19 Leaves Unhoused Oaklanders with Fewer Winter Refuges

In a new Public Health Post article, ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine affiliates Seth Holmes and Miriam Magaña Lopez explore the...Read more about COVID-19 and ICE Raids

Vincanne Adams, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, and co-author Alex Nading describe the many ways in which medical...Read more about Medical Anthropology in the Time of COVID‐19

Two of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliates, Rachel Morello-Frosch and Mahasin Mujahid, are among the co-authors of this new study marking the continuous harmful...Read more about Redlining's Harmful Effects on Babies Three Generations Later

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UC San Francisco, published a new study about the benefits of group medical visits among clinicians and...Read more about Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing

The Berkeley Center for Social Medicine mourns the loss of Sam Dubal, MD, PhD, a medical anthropologist and an affiliate of BCSM for many years, first as a student, when he was a co-founder of the group that became the ...Read more about Honoring the Life of Sam Dubal

ISSI's Berkeley Center of Social Medicine faculty affiliate Kelly Knight is a co-author of "Beyond a Moment - Reckoning with Our History and Embracing Antiracism in Medicine,"...Read more about Antiracism in Medicine

In a new article published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine faculty affiliate Mahasin Mujahid highlights the...Read more about Structural Racism and Maternal Morbidity