Health, Humanities, & Society Minor at UWO

Opinion | Nurses, Chaplains and Teachers Should Not Be Replaced With Technology (Gift Article) We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.

Sociologist breaking down the danger for public health of RJK, Jr.'s potential role in the new administration.

Opinion | How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Destroy One of Civilization’s Best Achievements (Gift Article) Let’s not make child mortality great again.

We're happy to report that Hmong Studies 230 - Memory & Trauma will be offered again this fall. This fascinating course is an elective in our Health, Humanities, & Society Minor.

‘Disruptive,’ or Depressed? Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color In Atlanta, a team of Black mental health experts is bringing care to adolescents whose needs often go unaddressed and misunderstood.

After a year of being bullied, her son wanted to be white. Why depression and anxiety loom larger for children of color. Wisconsin's children are experiencing a higher rate of anxiety and depression than the national average, and it's worse for kids of color.

HHS minors alert! This great class is being offered in the fall and it will count for the HHS minor!!

Interesting article that we discussed at our HHS steering committee this week, and which helps explain what our program is all about.

The Almost Right Word: The Move From Medical to Health... : Academic Medicine es recent theoretical and pedagogical developments in higher education such as the shift from rigid disciplinary boundaries to multi- and interdisciplinary inquiry, which has transformed humanities curricula in health professions. Calling the area of study health humanities also underscores the cruc...

Some of the comments to this post (part of a national campaign) help explain how much we need to grow this minor here, so we can help equip students to deal with this sort of ignorance, arguing against the idea that racism is real by doubling down on blatant racism (in this case by a person who *correction* ran for a seat on our county's board of supervisors, but ended up being edged out by a write-in candidate), etc.

Today is the start of National Public Health Week! Each day this week we are focusing on a particular public health topic.

Today's topic is racism, a public health crisis. Long-standing inequities in health care, income, housing, education and many other factors that influence health and well-being have widened during the COVID-19 pandemic. These inequities are largely driven by racism and biases embedded in our systems, institutions, policies and practices. This structural racism results in a lack of access and opportunity. Racism shapes where and how people live and what resources and opportunities they have.

Everyone can do their part to help. We have to address racism and work together to change our systems and advance racial equity.

Learn more at https://nphw.org/Themes-and-Facts/2022-Racism.

Journeys: He’s Black. He’s a nurse. And he understands his assignment. Muhammad Mahdi is not what most people see when they picture a nurse. Male and Black. The majority of nurses are women and white.

UWO Sociology was so excited to get a "return of vacant position" in our department (created after our wonderful colleague, Orlee Hauser, and her family took on a new adventure in New York City 2.5 years ago) this year, meaning we could search for a new, tenure-track faculty member.

We received about 130 applications and had a lot of wonderful candidates, with all kinds of great qualities, which made it an intense, but very fun process. It has culminated today with word that we have an officially-accepted job offer from our top candidate, Orlaith Heymann. Her name is of Irish origin and is pronounced, "Orla." The fact that "Orla" Heymann is filling the position previously held by Orlee Hauser is but one of several indications that the stars aligned for us to hire this person to start next fall.

Orlaith is finishing up her PhD in sociology at the University of Cincinnati and has specializations in the areas of sociology of health, gender, sexuality, education, and work. Here's what she had to say about accepting this job with us:

"I am thrilled to be joining the UWO Sociology Department! I have family who used to live in Oshkosh, and I was raised nearby in Minnesota, so in many ways Oshkosh feels like home. I am especially excited about contributing to the Health, Humanities, and Society minor with some new courses in the future, and continuing my research on reproductive health, education, sexuality, and work. I am also really looking forward to meeting and working with UWO students - come say hello to me next fall!"

We're thrilled, too!

The HHS perspective puts things like "drugstore deserts" (probably more accurately, "pharmacy apartheid" or "pharmacy redlining") squarely in one's sights.

Deep Roots Help This Chicago Pharmacist Avoid Creating Another Drugstore Desert Predominantly Black and Hispanic urban areas are more likely than white neighborhoods to see local pharmacies close and are more likely to be pharmacy deserts. In Chicago, one pharmacist is bucking…