International Health Humanities Network Membership

My name is Amanda Mummert, and I am a PhD Candidate in the Anthropology program at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to my role as a student in the Anthropology department, I am in the Predictive Health and Society research pathway as part of the Molecules to Mankind (M2M) doctoral program sponsored by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and will receive a Graduate Certificate in Translational Research from the Laney Graduate School and the Atlanta Clinical & Translational Science Institute. I am also active in promoting undergraduate learning and research opportunities through my affiliation with the Center for the Study of Human Health, and am currently the Graduate Student Ambassador for the Program for Scholarly Integrity.

I'm a psychologist interesterd in wellness and psychotherapy.

Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu EdD is consulting professor in the Stanford University School of Medicine and affiliated faculty in the Program in Arts, Humanities, and Medicine. He teaches an undergraduate course: Culture, Narrative and Medicine that examines health humanities and social sciences from a multicultural perspective. His writing appears in various journals, blogs and books, including Multicultural Encounters (2002), When Half is Whole (2012), and Synergy, Healing and Empowerment (2012). He received a doctorate in Counseling and Consulting Psychology from Harvard University and was professor of education at the University of Tokyo.

Digital Health researcher

Dr Aru Narayanasamy is Associate Professor of Nurse Education (Diversity teaching and learning). He holds the prestigious National Teaching Fellowship awarded by the UK Higher Education Academic for his outstanding work on spirituality and cultural diversity. Presently he is carrying out nurse education research in teaching and learning, and spiritual and cultural care teaching at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham. He acts as Health Advisor/Consultant to various agencies. He is co-editor for the Open Nursing Journal. Aru has written widely in the area of spiritual and cultural dimensions of health care and nurse education. His pioneering work culminated in teaching innovations such as the ASSET (Actioning Spirituality and Spiritual Care Education and Training) and ACCESS (Transcultural) models. These models have been adopted in the UK, Europe, USA, Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India and Turkey. He is supervising post-graduate research in the area of spirituality, ethnic diversity and health and nurse education. He has developed extensive Elearning resources on diversity learning and teaching, and recently he has developed an educational game on spiritual journey for students. Aru is committee member of the steering group for European Network for Spirituality Research.

I am a medical student attending the Unviersity of Illinois at Chicago who is interested in medical history and narrative medicine--particularly how to communicate with and educate patients. I'm part of a group attempting to create a medical humanities education track and include more of the humanities in our curriculum.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Medical Humanities and Health Studies Program at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI).

My specialty is history of medicine and mental health care, and my research examines the history of patient-staff relationships in mental institutions, in both France and the U.S. I explore the limitations and failures of past mental health reforms, as well as scientific innovation, creative expression, and community-building inside psychiatric facilities.

Currently, I am working on two book projects. The first is a study of how deinstitutionalization affected patients with intellectual disabilities at Indiana’s Central State Hospital in the 1990s (with Emily Beckman and Modupe Labode). This project was inspired by the patient-produced newsletter, The DDU Review. The second is based on my doctoral dissertation (IU Bloomington, 2015). This project examines the roles played by art and science in the reform of French psychiatry at the turn of the twentieth century, focusing on the work of Doctors Auguste Marie, Edouard Toulouse, and Paul Serieux at the Villejuif Asylum near Paris.

I am Professor of Science, Language, and Society at the Institute for Science and Society (School of Sociology and Social Policy). I studied French and philosophy in Germany and gained a DrPhil in French linguistics. After a postdoc in general linguistic at Oxford I moved to Nottingham. My current research, mainly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust focuses on the cultural and political contexts in which metaphors and other framing devices are used in the public, policy and scientific debates about emerging technologies, emerging diseases, as well as climate change. I have written books and articles on the history of linguistics, semantic change, metaphor, metonymy, polysemy and, more recently, the sociology of health and illness and the social study of science and technology. In 2011 the University of Nottingham awarded me a DLitt for my research and publications relating to the social study of metaphor. I am a Member of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Blog: http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingsciencepublic/

Academia.edu webpage: http://nottingham.academia.edu/BrigitteNerlich

Google scholar profile: http://tinyurl.com/ku8kl8p

Twitter: @BNerlich

Current research projects:

Climate change as a complex social issue, funded by the ESR/ORA fund, 2011-2014 (PI)

Making Science Public, funded by a Leverhulme Trust programme grant, 2012-2017 (Director)

Kei Nilsson holds a Bachelor’s degree in Medicine – general practitioner – from ATMA JAYA: Indonesian Catholic University and a Master’s degree in Applied Cultural Analysis with a specialisation in Medical Anthropology from Lund University, Sweden. She also took an art degree in South Korea, with a major in Dance Choreography and a minor in Computer Music Composition. Furthermore, she is a TEFL-certified teacher (Teaching English as a Foreign Language), and she has a certification in Creative Arts Therapy with a specialisation in Dance/Movement Therapy and Music Therapy. She has worked closely with governmental and non-governmental facilities, such as local orphanages, national hospitals, national research centres, and international rehabilitation institution. Her research interests are in human health and disease, healthcare systems, biocultural adaptation, as well as the study of art in different cultural contexts.

Visit her researcher identifier here to see her list of publications.

I am a lecturer in the department of theatre and film studies at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, specializing in the use of theatre and film for development, especially in health and advocacy matters. I am a scriptwriter, director, and theatre/film researcher with several partnership credits with local and international government and non governmental organisations.