Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins

Congratulations to Sofia Grant, PhD student in History of Medicine, for receiving a 2026 Michael E. DeBakey fellowship from the National Library of Medicine! Sofia will be conducting research for her project “Diagnosing Uncertainty: Non-Specificity, Uncertain Knowledge, and the Management of Autoimmune Diseases Between the Laboratory and the Clinic” as part of her dissertation research on twentieth-century American biomedicine. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/get-involved/debakey-fellowship.html

The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins is excited to be hosting the 18th annual JAS-Med 2026 conference on 9/25-9/26! Founded with the mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for graduate research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and student-organized.

For more information, check out our website: https://jashistofmed.wordpress.com/

A hearty congratulations to Carter Barnett for winning the 2026 Shyrock Medal from the American Association for the History of Medicine for his essay entitled "Constructing the Mission Hospital of Late Ottoman Gaza"!

Join our wonderful Curator of Rare Books Michael Seminara for a virtual Q&A about the Jacobs Room & Collection this Friday, April 24th. For more details and to register, visit https://events.jhu.edu/form/hah-26-hbjc-v

RSVP now for the 2026 Aliapoulios Lecture in Hellenic Medicine featuring Dr. Jennifer Stager presenting "How to Mend a Body in Ancient Greece" on Thursday, April 2nd. https://hopkinshistoryofmedicine.org/2026-aliapoulios-lecture-featuring-dr-jennifer-stager/

Join our wonderful Curator of Rare Books Michael Seminara for a virtual Q&A about the Jacobs Room & Collection on Friday, April 24th. For more details and to register, visit https://events.jhu.edu/form/hah-26-hbjc-v

Congrats to Alumnus Alex Parry and former postdocs Christy Slobogin and Iro Filippaki on publishing their research agenda on injury studies open-access with the Journal of Medical Humanities! The piece came out of the Rethinking Injuries conference held in Baltimore in March 2024 and is part of their continuing work with the Injury Studies Network. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10912-026-10009-6

TOMORROW: Have questions about the Online Program in the History of Medicine MA or Post-Baccalaureate Certificate applications due 12/15? Join us for a virtual open house on 12/9 at 2pm EST for a chance to ask the program director!

Online Program Virtual Open House – Department of the History of Medicine Would you like to know more information about the Johns Hopkins Online Program in the History of Medicine where you can take courses, apply for the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, or apply for the MA in the History of Medicine?