Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine

2021 May 05

Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present: History Matters

4:00pm

Location: 

Virtual Event

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This program is presented as part of the presidential initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, a University-wide effort housed at Harvard Radcliffe Institute, in collaboration with the Project on Race & Gender in Science & Medicine at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.

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2020 Aug 20

Harvard University Black & Brown Community Connections 2020

(All day)

Location: 

Virtual Conference

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Welcome event for all incoming students, faculty, researchers, and staff of color. Designed to build networks and explore how to navigate Harvard and Boston as a person of color.

Each day will feature panels for students, researchers, staff or faculty. In addition there will be workshops on navigating Harvard, making connections, affinity spaces, and mental health resources.

  • Thursday, August 20 - Program runs from 12:00-4:00...
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Hammonds and Farmer

Harvard Magazine: 'A Pandemic Full of Heartbreaks'

May 15, 2020
During the past month and a half, as the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded in the United States and mounting data showed its disproportionate effect on African Americans and other minorities, Evelynn Hammonds, Rosenkrantz professor of the history of science and professor in African and African American studeis, has been holding weekly video-chat discussions on race and epidemics.
Boston Globe

Boston Globe: 'With coronavirus, racism is the underlying condition'

April 13, 2020
“Coronavirus has not created health disparities,” [David Williams] said Thursday during a conversation on “Epidemics and Health Disparities in African American Communities" at Harvard’s Hutchins Center. “What it has done is it highlighted these disparities.”