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

Redlining's Harmful Effects on Babies Three Generations Later

November 19, 2020

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

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

Institute for the Study of Societal Issues