Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV

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Emily Mendenhall, a medical anthropologist and an associate professor of global health in the Science, Technology, and International Affairs Program at Georgetown University, will give a talk entitled "Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV" for the Social & Behavioral Interventions Program at the School of Public Health.

Emily Mendenhall is the author of Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements of Trauma, Poverty, and HIV (2019, Cornell University Press) and Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (2012, Routledge). She has written extensively at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health and led a series of articles on syndemics in The Lancet. In 2017, Mendenhall was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology. From 2011-2012, she was a Fogarty Scholar at the Public Health Foundation of India.