Artist: Tarika-Art
Photo Credit: Jonathan Flores
Mission
A historic partnership between Georgetown and Howard, The Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice fosters learning, research, and public engagement at the intersection of humanities and healthcare in Washington, DC.
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Strategic Priorities
Organized around three pillars— research, education, and public engagement— the Center serves as a confederating space that allows practitioners, creatives, academics, and community members to act as a force multiplier for the medical humanities in DC.
Research
Demonstrate how the tools and methods of medical humanities can understand and offer broader / alternative perspectives upon targeted healthcare and health justice issues in Washington, DC.
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Photo Credit: Jonathan Flores
Education
Focus cross-institutional educational opportunities at the Center that amplify our unique institutional strengths.
Howard University
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Public Engagement
Broaden the reach of the medical humanities and establish the Center’s leadership role in the dynamic conversation between the humanities and medicine/healthcare.
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