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Global Social Medicine Network supports Social Medicine on Air podcast
Global Social Medicine Network is proud to support the Social Medicine on Air podcast platform, with the support of funding from the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London, for the publication of a series of podcasts on a range of topics related to Social Medicine. In the last year, this… Read more »
Social Medicine Essay Contest
The Global Social Medicine Network is delighted to announce an exciting opportunity to participate in an essay contest. We invite submissions of essays of no more than 2500 words on the topic of THE FUTURE OF SOCIAL MEDICINE The Steering Committee of the Global Social Medicine network will select 5 winners who will be awarded… Read more »
Academic Conference: The Future of Social Medicine
What is the future of social medicine? Michelle Pentecost was invited to give a keynote lecture for the event ‘The Novel Stakes of Social Medicine’ organised by Medical Anthropology Switzerland (MAS) at the University of Lausanne. By kicking off the discussion with the question: ‘what counts as “here”?’, Michelle Pentecost brings a focus to the… Read more »
Essay Collection in The Lancet
Revitalising Global Social Medicine What is global social medicine? This collection of essays, arising from collaborations between social medicine programmes and practitioners around the world, seeks to revitalise the field of social medicine as a way to affirm a health agenda that promotes human rights and social justice (Pentecost et al., 2021). Béhague and Ortega (2021) investigate… Read more »
Request for Proposals: Workplace Mental Health 2021
Workplace Mental Health 2021 Wellcome are looking to commission up to 20 research teams to review the evidence behind individual promising approaches for preventing or addressing mental health problems in the workplace, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income countries. Businesses all over the world are increasingly thinking about how they can… Read more »
Call for Participation: Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop
Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop Call for Participation 10 May 2021 The key aim of this online workshop is to build the writing and publishing capacity of early-career researchers based at institutions in Latin America who are working in the fields of social medicine / collective health and are interested in publishing in English-language… Read more »
Postponed: Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop Rio de Janeiro, 27 May 2020
Social Medicine Writing and Publishing Workshop Rio de Janeiro, 27 May 2020 Call for Participation Due to the covid-19 pandemic this event has been postponed The key aim of this interactive workshop is to build the writing and publishing capacity of early-career researchers based at institutions in Latin America who are working in the fields… Read more »
CFP: Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good
Radical Health: Doing Medicine, Health Care, and Anthropology of the Good Freie Universität Berlin, 2-4 October 2020 Full CFP: https://www.medicalanthropology.de/wp-content/uploads/1/2019/09/CFP_Radical-Health_Berlin-2020.pdf Please submit an abstract of max. 300 words describing your theoretical intervention, ethnographic research, or health initiative by 20 October 2019 to radicalhealth-berlin2020@mailbox.org. We encourage suggestions for individual scientific presentations, roundtables, film screenings, and other… Read more »
CFP: Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices
XIII International Workshop Science, Technology and Gender Health, public involvement, and gender: new voices, knowledges and practices Madrid, 21-23rd October 2019 The project Multiple voices, plural knowledges and biomedical technologies (MINECO: FFI2015-65947-C2 -1-P) invites contributions for the XIII International Workshop on Science, Technology and Gender to debate how public involvement (PPI) and gender are important to improve… Read more »
CFP: Health, healthcare and urban spaces: perspectives from the law and medical humanities
See attached a CFP for an event to be held at the Free State Centre for Human Rights in August 2019. CFP – Bloemfontein Law, Medicine, Humanities