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Ahmed Ragab joining faculty of History of Medicine
April 19, 2021

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ahmed Ragab has accepted our offer to join the faculty at Johns Hopkins as…

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New Faculty Search in History of Medicine
October 7, 2020

The Department of the History of Medicine of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine invites applications for tenure-track faculty at…

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Ayah Nuriddin, Sasha White, and Graham Mooney publish article in the Lancet.
October 3, 2020

Ayah Nuriddin, Sasha White, and Graham Mooney examine the entangled histories of racism, violence, medicine, and public health, in “Reckoning with…

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Jeremy Greene co-authors article in Isis
September 20, 2020

Jeremy Greene co-authors “Innovation on the Reservation: Information Technology and Health Systems Research among the Papago Tribe of Arizona, 1965–1980” with…

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Elizabeth O’Brien receives the 2020 Forum for History of Human Science Dissertation Prize
September 3, 2020

Congratulations to Professor Elizabeth O’Brien, recipient of the 2020 Forum for History of Human Science Dissertation Prize! Dr. O’Brien received the…

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Graham Mooney publishes article in the New England Journal of Medicine
September 2, 2020

Our own Graham Mooney publishes, ‘“A Menace to the Public Health” — Contact Tracing and the Limits of Persuasion‘ in the…

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Marta Hanson publishes article in Current History
August 20, 2020

Marta Hanson examines the discourses of weakness in “From Sick Man of Asia to Sick Uncle Sam,” published in the latest…

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Jeremy Greene co-authors article in JAMA
August 5, 2020

Dr. Jeremy Greene co-authors “Attacks on Public Health Officials During COVID-19” with Michelle Mello and Joshua Scharfstein in the Journal of…

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Elizabeth O’Brien awarded NEH grant
July 29, 2020

Delighted to announce that Elizabeth O’Brien was awarded a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Scholarly Editions and…

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Ayah Nuriddin interviewed in the Washington Post
July 21, 2020

Our own Ayah Nuriddin provides historical insights to the entanglements of race, eugenics, and reproduction, faced by Planned Parenthood. Read the…

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