The Health Humanities Consortium promotes health humanities scholarship, education, and practices that focus on intersections among the humanities, arts and social sciences and health, illness, and healthcare.
HHC 2024 Award Winners
The Health Humanities Consortium is honored to announce the winners of the 2024 awards.
Lifetime Leadership & Service Award – Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D.
Visionary Award – Kirsten Ostherr, Ph.D.
Congratulations!!!
Announcing Equity Membership Pricing
Accessibility, including financial accessibility, is a central value for the Health Humanities Consortium (HHC). In the interest of making HHC membership more affordable for those employed part-time or contingently, and those from lower and middle income countries, we have decided to move to a graduated membership fee structure based on self-reported income tiers. The following new membership prices will take effect beginning November 1, 2023.
| Category/Annual Income (in USD) | Membership Pricing |
| Student/Trainee | $25 |
| Annual income up to $25,000 USD | $25 |
| $25,000-$49,000 USD | $50 |
| $75,000-$99,9999 USD | $75 |
| $100,000-$149,999 USD | $125 |
| $150,000 USD and above | $150 |
For members from outside the U.S., please estimate your income in USD (find a currency calculator at https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/currency-exchange-rates-converter/).
Institutional membership costs will remain the same ($1000 for up to 10 individual memberships, plus two conference registrations annually).
HHC Membership runs one year from the date of purchase. These prices will go into effect whenever you next renew your membership after November 1, 2023. You may check the status of your membership at our membership site.
Health Humanities Syllabus Repository
The Health Humanities Consortium, in collaboration with the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University, is pleased to introduce the Health Humanities Syllabus Repository, a new curricular resource for medical/health humanities educators working in academic, professional, and public settings.
The repository is intended to:
- Enable educators to share specific ideas and models for course topics, readings, assignments, teaching methods, student and professional development learning outcomes, and public engagement.
- Assist scholars in generating new curricular innovations and enable field-wide conversations about student, professional, and public learning outcomes, coursework foci, assessment approaches, and best practices that are common across diverse health humanities programs.
- Provide a resource for developing common core areas and competencies in health humanities programs and the broader field.
The syllabi on the website are fully searchable. To guide the user, they are also searchable by course topics (ecology, social justice, etc.), disciplines (Disability Studies, History, etc.), level of education (undergraduate, graduate, etc.), or modality (online, face-to-face, etc.). The advanced search function allows users to combine multiple search terms. We invite you to explore the current resources available, and to contribute you own educational materials in order to broaden the scope of this transdisciplinary, crowdsourced resource. Instructions for uploading materials are available on the repository site, and we invite submission of syllabi and unique assignments.
We also welcome members of the medical/health humanities scholarly community to broadcast this resource by posting a link to the Health Humanities Syllabus Repository on your personal, departmental/program, or institutional sites, or sharing via social media, as you see fit. When posting, we simply ask that you acknowledge the Health Humanities Consortium and the Medical Futures Lab at Rice University. (You may wish to copy/paste the first paragraph of this announcement, for example, and tag @MedFutures on Twitter.)
HHC Job Board
Whether you are searching for a new faculty member to join your institution or you are a job seeker looking for a Health/Medical Humanities position, #HHCJobs allows you to post and search job openings for free.
