The 2021 [Virtual] Health Humanities Consortium International Conference will explore the theme “Crisis and Community: The Role of Health Humanities,” March 25-27, 2021.

Registration is now open. [Click here to reach the registration page]

• Attendee fee: $150 (HHC Member discount code available from dtomazin@pennstatehealth.psu.edu)
• Attendee fee if credit is desired: $200
• Student fee: $25 (must send verification to ContinuingEd@pennstatehealth.psu.edu)

CONFERENCE AGENDA

MARCH 25, 2021

• 1 to 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Presentations
• 7 to 8:30 p.m. Featured Presentation

MARCH 26, 2021

• Noon to 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Presentations
• 5:30 to 7 p.m. Black Man in a White Coat (1.5 credit hours)
  Keynote Speaker Damon Tweedy, MDOBJECTIVES
  • Describe how medical education and the health care system have perpetuated health disparities.
  • Identify strategies to mitigate the harms of physician bias and patient mistrust on health outcomes.
  • Discuss the unique challenges and roles of Black physicians in the delivery of medical care.

MARCH 27, 2021

• 10 to 11:15 a.m. PANDEMIC Ostalgie: HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 – Lessons for Pandemic Preparedness from the Humanities (1.25 credit hours)
  Keynote Speaker Rosemary Jolly, PhDOBJECTIVES
  • Describe fifth-wave public health and how it challenges existing concepts of public health priorities.
  • Compare the in-depth history of the comparative emergence of HIV and COVID-19 pathogens as zoonoses, dependent on phylogenetic studies contextualized within conditions of emergence of human/non-human animal interfaces.
  • Discuss decolonization of a) medical history and b) global health interventions.
  • Explain the ethics of considering pandemic conditions in terms of structural violence: settler colonialism; race; global capitalism, including a consideration of the level of the individual patient.
• 11:15 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Presentations

MARCH 28, 2021

• 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Networking and Business Meetings