International Health Humanities Network Membership

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.

Rose Richards has an MA in English Literature and her PhD (Psychology) is on narrative and identity in organ failure and transplantation. After a considerable period of ill health, she underwent a kidney transplant in 1991 and these experiences form the basis of her doctoral work. Other research includes illness narratives, identity studies and teaching writing. She has published academic work and short stories. Some of her writing has appeared in Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing, New Contrast, Qualitative Health Research, The South African Journal of Higher Education and Modjaji Press’s The Bed Book of Short Stories (2010). She works with university students to help them develop academic writing skills.

As a Professor in Nurse Education and Clinical Learning I am passionate about education and learning for nurses and health care professionals. I am particualrly interested in undertaking interprofessional research that helps health professionals to better understand the people they work with and the work that they do; I beleive that nursing has much to learn from the arts. In previous work I have explored how nursing might look to performing arts in matters of assesment, and  the use of painting to promote deeper thinking and reflection amongst student nurses.

Principally a scholar in Classics and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, I teach Ancient Medicine and Ancient Science for a major in Medical Humanities (B.S.) at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia (PA, USA). My research focuses on the consolatory tradition and the use of literary technique in philosophical literature, but I have secondary interests in ancient music, ancient medicine, tragedy, and critical theory (especially psychoanalytic theory, Italian theory, and ordinary language philosophy).  

Cristina holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2018) and she is currently working on her second Ph.D. in French/Francophone Studies. Her dissertation explores the pain narratives in Quebec literature and cinema. Her research interests are medical humanities, Quebec studies, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and French modern and contemporary literature and cinema. She is also interested in the doppelgänger, fantastic literature, immigration studies, and literatures of the francophone worlds. Her cat wrote most of this biography.

Cristina holds a Ph.D. in Literary Theory (Academy of Sciences of Moldova, 2018) and she is currently working on her second Ph.D. in French/Francophone Studies. Her dissertation is tentatively titled Maladie et Récit : La Mise en récit du corps malade dans la fiction Québécoise contemporaine (Sickness and Story: The narrativization of the sick body in contemporary Québécois fiction) and it explores the pain narratives in Quebec literature and cinema. Her research interests are Medical Humanities, Quebec studies, literary and critical theory, cultural studies, and French modern and contemporary literature and cinema. She is also interested in the doppelgänger, fantastic literature, immigration studies, and literatures of the francophone worlds.

I've worked for 10+ years as a freelance art critic, art curator and facilitator and trainer in art education and participation. I'm an active member of the European New Patrons network and founding member of Matchbox, both organisations fostering collaboration between the arts and other domains in society, a.o. health. I'm currently preparing my Ph.D. at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels), focusing on socially engaged arts practice within an end-of life context.