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

Group Medical Visits and Clinician Wellbeing

November 18, 2020

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

Honoring the Life of Sam Dubal

November 1, 2020

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

Antiracism in Medicine

October 8, 2020

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

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues