International Health Humanities Network Membership

I am a Registered Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse. I reside in Enugu, Nigeria. 

Anna Ovaska (PhD, M. Soc. Sc.) is a postdoctoral researcher at Narrare: Centre for Interdisciplinary Narrative Studies at Tampere University and visiting researcher at University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research is situated in the intersections of narrative theory, feminist/queer theory, embodied cognitive science, and medical humanities. Her publications deal with the affective, embodied, and political dimensions of reading and narrative representations of pain, illness, and disability. Her monograph Shattering Minds: Experiences of Mental Distress in Modernist Finnish Literature (Finnish Literature Society 2023) explores the interaction between readers and the text in first-person narratives of mental illness. Anna has been a Fulbright fellow in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University and a visiting scholar at Literature and the Mind Program at University of California, Santa Barbara.

I'm writing a doctoral thesis on interaction in multicultural primary care consultations. The aim of the study is to provide more information on what kind of challenges diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds bring to the communicative doctor–patient relationship and how the participants manage them and contribute to creating a shared world. My principal method is conversation analysis. I work in the University of Turku, in Finland.

Retired consultant psychiatrist. Interests in psychosis; medical anthropology; science, technology, medicine and society; and narrative.

Pallavi holds the position of Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Chaudhary Ranbir Singh University, Jind, Haryana, India. She is also a dedicated research scholar in the Department of English & Foreign Languages at Chaudhary Devi Lal University, Sirsa, Haryana, India. Her research interests revolve around exploring medical narratives from the perspectives of doctors and patients. Specifically, she focuses on analyzing their memoirs as embodied texts, shedding light on the profound impact of illness on their identities within the context of evolving space and time constraints.

Medical Doctor (Federal University of Goiás), Master of Philosophy (Federal Univeristy of Goiás), Ophthalmologist (Brazilian Council of Ophthalmology), Doctor of Ophthalmology (Federal University of Minas Gerais), Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Ophthalmology (Harvard Medical School), Doctor of Bioethics (University of Brasilia). Professor of Bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Goiás, Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil.

Médico egresado de la Universidad de la Sabana, con especialización en Bioética de la Universidad El Bosque, Magister en fisiología de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Interés en neurobiología de la conducta, empatía y desarrollo moral. Utilizo la Medicina Narrativa en la formación de identidad de médicos en áreas como la fisiología, la historia y la antropología médica. 

Manon Parry is Professor of Medical History at the VU University, Amsterdam, and Senior Lecturer in American Studies and Public History at the University of Amsterdam.

Her interests include gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, museums and monuments, and digital public history. She has developed exhibitions on a wide range of topics, including global health and human rights, disability in the American Civil War, and medicinal and recreational drug use, with project budgets ranging from $14,500 to $3 million. Her traveling exhibitions have visited more than 300 venues across Argentina, Canada, Germany, Guam, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States, and several remain on tour through 2021.

She is co-editor, with Ellen S. More and Elizabeth Fee, of Women Physicians and the Culture of Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) , winner of the Archivists and Librarians in the Health Sciences Publication Award for Best Print Publication in 2012, and author of Broadcasting Birth Control: Mass Media and Family Planning (Rutgers University Press, 2013). She has served as a Managing Editor of the UK journal Museum & Society and was previously an International Consulting Editor for the US journal The Public Historian. See CV for further details.

Erin Partridge, PhD, ATR-BC is an artist and board certified, registered art therapist. Erin received a BFA, studying fine art, psychology and women’s studies in at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. She went onto obtain a MA in art therapy from New York University in 2008, and a PhD in art therapy from Notre Dame de Namur in 2016.

Erin’s teaching and lecturing experience includes teaching at NDNU in the art therapy department, guest lectures in art and counseling programs, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students, workshop facilitation at national and international conferences, and interviews with media about art therapy. Her clinical experience includes work in community, pediatric, forensic, and geriatric settings and she is published in the areas of art therapy, elder care, and technology. Her research interests incorporate the lived experience and focus on participatory, ethnographic, and art-based approaches. As Experiential Researcher-In-Residence with Elder Care Alliance, she is currently working on a study about social robots and older adults and investigating the use of art in workplace settings.  Her upcoming book, Art therapy with older adults: Connected and empowered comes out February 2019.

Elizabeth is currently a Graduate Student at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her major is Literature and Criticism with an academic research intrest in Health Humanitites. Elizabeth teaches Wrting and Literature at a local community college and has been employed in the medical field for more than twenty-five years, she is currently also pursuing a nursing degree. She believes that her academic research interest in Health Humanities will bridge her education between the study of Literature and Nursing.