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Evelynn M. Hammonds

2021 May 05

Medical Racism from 1619 to the Present: History Matters

4:00pm

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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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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.

Genetics and Genealogy Working Group

Co-Directors: Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelynn M. Hammonds

Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds convened the New Genetics and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Working Group for the first time in January 2006. In 2009, the group’s name was changed to the Genetics and Genealogy Working Group, to encompass more fully the broad reach of the group, composed of the nation’s top scientists, social scientists, and historians working in this field. The group’s chief aim is to advance research in genetics and genealogy and to use historical...

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