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Karola V. Kreitmair, PhD, has received the Marie S. Curie COFUND FRIAS Fellowship for 2022-23. The Marie S. Curie FCFP addresses excellent researchers from all discipline, including the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, medicine, and engineering. Under the Marie S. Currie FCFP, incoming fellows are placed within the strongest and most competitive research areas of …
Nicole C. Nelson, Associate Professor, Department of Medical History and Bioethics has received a 2022-23 Vilas Associates Competition award. The competition recognizes “new and ongoing research of the highest quality and significance”. Nicole’s funded project will study the role of conservative-leaning organizations in advocating for open science policy. Her team will examine debates around the …
Empire of Rubber: Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia, Gregg Mitman. (The New Press, 2021). The Gray Zones of Medicine: Healers and History in Latin America, Edited by Diego Armus and Pablo Gómez. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). Cannabis: Global Histories, Edited by Lucas Richert and James H. Mills. (Cambridge: The MIT …
Pablo F. Gómez, MD, PhD, associate professor of medical history and bioethics and associate professor of history in the College of Letters and Science, is a 2021-22 recipient of the H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship. The Romnes Fellowship recognizes and supports tenured faculty and their research. More information about H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowships can be found …
The 2021 SMPH Bioethics Symposium will be held virtually—as a podcast! For the last month, UW Medical History & Bioethics faculty members have been conducting interviews with bioethics experts, public health professionals, and community health leaders to uncover and interrogate essential and sometimes uncomfortable lessons learned from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The podcast guests will …