International Health Humanities Network Membership

Born in Lisbon, 1985. Attended Universidade to Minho and got my BA in Portuguese and English Studies. 

PG Certificate from the University of Exeter in Applied Drama.

Currently PhD Candidate at the University of Nottingham. 

A PhD Scholar in English Literature, my area deals with health humanities. I've done my masters in English Literature and bachelors in arts from Uttarakhand, India. I am currently working as a chapter leader of Uttarakhand under a global organisation called Students for Health Humanities. 

Sara Read is a literary historian and senior lecturer at Loughborough University. She researches aspects of women's reproduction health in early modern England. Her first monograph was Menstruation and the Female Body in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2013). More recently, Sara has turned to fiction and published her first research-led novel, about a country midwife from 1665, as The Gossips' Choice (Wild Pressed Books, 2020) last year. A sequel is coming out next spring. 

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Sheri Reda is a writer, presenter, and performer with more than 30 years’ experience in education and publishing and nearly as many years in performance. Sheri holds Master's degrees in Modern Letters, Religions and the Arts, and Information Sciences, and is a certifed mediator and spiritual director. She is also a certified master life-cycle celebrant who brings storytelling and ritual to individually designed weddings, funerals, and other life passages. She In addition to working with education clients nationwide, Sheri offers workshops and seminars on narrative medicine and nonviolent communications and is a member of the Narrative Medicine Steering Committee at Advocate Healthcare in Park Ridge, Illinois. Sheri also serves on the board of the CG Jung Center, in Evanston, works at Wilmette Public Library, and tells stories as part of Chicago’s live-lit community. Her essays, poems, and stories are available through the Locofo Chaps imprint of Moria Press, Literate Ape online journal, and other publications in the United States and the UK. 

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David Reggio completed his AHRC funded PHD at Goldsmiths College in 2005, which focused on the evolution of psychiatric reasoning and institutions on the Continent. He has received  support from the Wellcome Trust Foundation for projects dealing with changes in health and psychiatric institutions as well as the ideas shaping contemporary practice. He has been a research fellow with the University of London, a visiting senior researcher to the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, and is currently a professor at the University of Western Santa Catarina, Brazil, where he oversees research and international bridge-building projects for the region and the State.

Reggio has worked and dialogued extensively with numerous historical personages in the field of human phenomenology, psychiatry and mental pathology including: Henri Maldiney (1912-), Jacques Schotte (1928-2007) and Jean Oury (1924-).

In addition to publishing numerous works on philosophy and the history of medicine and psychiatry, he is currently focusing on publishing a series of studies introducing reformist episodes of Brazilian health care, in the context of social movements and re-democratization.

Reggio has participated in numerous key events and social projects, including the Urban Heterogensis project in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Reggio is keen to promote creative collaborative ventures at the international level, between institutions, organizations and professionals, focusing on community strategies, the valorization of voices and narratives, as well as cultural processes in the context of health and society.

I am a researcher, currently working in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham, and interested in the various ways that technology can support effective self-expression and human interaction. I also spent a year training as a humanistic psychotherapist at the Sherwood Psychotherapy Training Insitute, and have sought to apply what I learnt in this period to my research work.

For my PhD, I studied the homes of individuals who had experienced a stroke, and considered how best to design appropriate rehabilitation technology in light of the disruptive effect of a stroke on the highly personal and meaningful nature of the home environment. This resulted in an evaluation of four technologies that were tailored to the needs of specific individuals and their environments. I also considered the question of how to systematice the process of design, to allow tailored technologies to be deployed on a broader scale. My PhD is available as a digital document here:

http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14153/

More recently, I've been working with Francesca Beard, a performance poet and workshop facilitator, to explore the use of commodity technologies such as mobile phones to support individuals in exploring and sharing their own experiences with others; this work culminated in StoryVerse, an experimental spoken word event hosted by the University of Nottingham, which used mobile phones as a mechanism to allow audience members to integrate their own experiences into a live performance.

I'm particularly interested in the use of technology to address common mental health problems, and have been working with Pete Bower and Sarah Knowles at the University of Manchester to study the real-world experience of engaging with large-scale deployments of computerised therapy services in the UK.

Dr. Johanna Rian directs the Mayo Clinic Dolores Jean Lavins Center for Humanities in Medicine in Rochester, MN, where she develops and implements programs in humanities and arts for patients, staff, students and visitors. She has published and presented on arts in health care with an emphasis on theatre and narrative medicine in medical education. She teaches courses for Mayo Medical School students, using theatre to improve skills in patient case presentations, and creative and reflective writing to improve patient/physician relationships and help ease medical school burnout. Johanna has worked extensively with Twin Cities arts non-profit organizations in strategic planning and development. She is a former board member with Minnesota Citizens for the Arts and Arts & Health Alliance. Johanna holds a doctorate in Theatre and Humanities from Stanford University, and joined the Mayo Clinic staff in 2008.

Am an health economist, worked in communicable diseases across africa and asia the last 20 years. authour of a novel on aid « onu soit qui mal y pense », and a play « transparence ». Interested to link gkobal health and humanities. Will moderate sessions in utrecht university around these topics later this year. Roberto garcia saez

I am a physician and professor of medical anthropology at the Faculty of Medicine of the National University of Tucuman - Argentina. Our main area of research is the doctor-patient relationship with special focus on the communication to be developed for medical students skills. We have Medical Humanities laboratory in which we develop workshops to train our students in communication skills. We also conducted research in this field.

We have great interest in narrative medicine as a way to develop empathy between our students and we believe the impact of the literature in this regard.

Helping those neurodiverse individuals find employment and/or meaningful engagement to enhance their lives.