Watch MHHJ's Co-Directors, Dr. Dana Williams and Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan , as they engage in a powerful conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone...

Watch our October Speaker Series event---Grown Women Talking: Lessons on Women's Health Through Community in partnership with the MLK...

During the Diane Rehm Book Club 's September selection "James" by Percival Everett, MHHJ Co-Executive Director Dana A. Williams and...

Our Community Fellow, Geneva Greene, organized a community building event to promote mental and physical well-being. Summer Set was held...

Stories about birth are as old as humanity itself. They are universal, crossing every culture as they mark the breathtaking beginnings of...

Our co-executive director, Lakshmi Krishnan, attended Rice University’s Medical Humanities Research Institute summit at the Rice Global...

Abstract Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a nonprofit that funds humanities initiatives, awarded Georgetown University and Howard University a $3...

The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5-year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between Howard and Georgetown universities to...

WASHINGTON (January 19, 2023) — The Mellon Foundation has awarded a 3.5 year, $3 million grant to support a collaboration between...

WASHINGTON – Howard University is announcing the return of the highly anticipated 2024 Interprofessional Education Workshop, or IPE Day,...

Howard University solidifies its position as a top-tier U.S. research institution.

Purchase Play "Vivian Bearing is a professor of English literature known for her intense knowledge of metaphysical poetry, especially the...

Purchase Play Book Description "In 1926, radium was a miracle cure, Madame Curie an international celebrity, and luminous watches the...

Purchase Book Book Description "In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies...

Purchase Book Book Description "Jaffna, 1981. Sixteen-year-old Sashi wants to become a doctor. But over the next decade, a vicious civil...

Purchase Book Book Description "Here are some of Tolstoy's extraordinary short stories, from "The Death of Ivan Ilyich." in a masterly...

Purchase Book Book Description "Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume. In 1978, Sontag wrote...

Purchase Book Book Description "Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is...

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Purchase Book Book Description "An incisive, groundbreaking book that examines how a biological concept of race is a myth that promotes...

Purchase Book Book Description "In the course of the 20th century, cancer went from being perceived as a white woman's nemesis to a...

Howard and Georgetown Universities Create the Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice Historically Black Howard University and...

Partnership expands medical humanities and health justice work Karen Teber Date Published: June 20, 2023 The Georgetown-Howard Center for...