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

Rachel Morello-Frosch Joins the National Academy of Medicine

November 18, 2022

Rachel Morello-Frosch, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, is one of 100 newly elected...Read more about Rachel Morello-Frosch Joins the National Academy of Medicine

The Promise of Personalized Medicine vs. Reality in Breast Cancer Screening Trial

October 12, 2022

In this article in New Genetics and Society by Jen James and Galen Joseph, faculty affiliates of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, the authors look at a ...Read more about The Promise of Personalized Medicine vs. Reality in Breast Cancer Screening Trial

NIH Grant for Ariana Thompson-Lastad

August 12, 2022

Ariana Thompson-Lastad, faculty affiliate of ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, received a Career Development Award (K01) from the National Institute for Minority Health & Health Disparities (part of NIH). It will support her work with ...Read more about NIH Grant for Ariana Thompson-Lastad

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