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This working group explores the application of medical history in clinical medicine, health education, medical science, health policy, and global/public health. It aims to create a transdisciplinary conversation that focuses on active engagement. By bringing together scholars, learners, archivists, healthcare professionals, and activists, the working group strengthens existing connections and creates networks committed to translating insights from the history of medicine and health into tangible interventions addressing pressing medical and societal challenges. Recent historical events have provided a new urgency to not only expose historically entrenched structures of health-related disparities, discrimination, and systemic harm, but to work actively towards their dismantling. Building on a long history of engaged scholarship in the history of medicine, the group provides a space for new ways of thinking about medical history as an applied discipline.
Consortium Respectful Behavior Policy
Participants at Consortium activities will treat each other with respect and consideration to create a collegial, inclusive, and professional environment that is free from any form of discrimination, harassment, or retaliation.
Participants will avoid any inappropriate actions or statements based on individual characteristics such as age, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, nationality, political affiliation, ability status, educational background, or any other characteristic protected by law. Disruptive or harassing behavior of any kind will not be tolerated. Harassment includes but is not limited to inappropriate or intimidating behavior and language, unwelcome jokes or comments, unwanted touching or attention, offensive images, photography without permission, and stalking.
Participants may send reports or concerns about violations of this policy to conduct@chstm.org.
Upcoming Meetings
Friday, April 18, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
Friday, May 16, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
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Friday, June 20, 2025, 12:00 - 1:30 pm EDT
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Group Conveners
Lisa Haushofer
Lisa Haushofer, MD PhD, is a medical doctor and a historian of food, science, and medicine. She is currently Senior Research Associate at the Chair for the History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities at the University of Zurich. She holds an MD from Witten-Herdecke University, an MA from University College London, and a PhD from Harvard University. Her first book, Wonder Foods: The Science and Commerce of Nutrition was published with California University Press in December 2022.
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley
Kirsten Moore-Sheeley, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She received her PhD in the History of Medicine in 2018 from Johns Hopkins University along with a Certificate in Global Health from the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has published her first book, Nothing But Nets: A Biography of Global Health Science and Its Objects, with JHU Press in 2023 and is now working on a new project related to the hsitory of vaccine research.
Marco Ramos
Marco Ramos, MD PhD, is a Psychiatry Resident and Lecturer in the History of Medicine at Yale University. His historical research focuses on mental health, activism, and revolutionary politics in Latin America. His writing has appeared in clinical, academic, and popular journals, including The American Historical Review, Bulletin of the History of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, and Boston Review. He is currently working on turning his dissertation into a book, tentatively titled Specters of Justice: Mental Health and Terror in Cold War Argentina. He will start as Assistant Professor in the Program for the History of Science and Medicine at Yale University in July 2022.
Carolyn Roberts
Carolyn Roberts, PhD, is a historian of medicine and science at Yale University. She holds a joint appointment in the departments of History/History of Science and Medicine, and African American Studies. Dr. Roberts also holds a secondary appointment at Yale School of Medicine in the Program in the History of Medicine. Her research interests concern the history of race, science, and medicine in the context of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade. Dr. Roberts is currently working on a book manuscript, To Heal and To Harm: Medicine, Healthcare, and Slave Trading in the British Atlantic World, which is under contract with Harvard University Press. She is also a popular workshop leader and speaker who brings critical historical perspectives to anti-racism interventions in science, medicine, and public health. Dr. Roberts has contributed to institutional efforts to diversify STEM, including anti-racist pedagogy and curricula with a variety of corporations, non-profit organizations, and institutions.
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