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

Charles Briggs Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

May 9, 2023

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

Racial Health Inequities and Climate Change

April 27, 2023

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" Video Available

April 27, 2023

"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

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