Integrating the Humanities into Health IRB and Grant Proposals- Workshop

Anita HardonAnita Hardon is Professor of Anthropology of Health and Social Care, Director of the research priority area Social Science and Global Health, and co-Director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Amsterdam. She sspecializes in multi-sited studies of global

health technologies, combining ethnography with methods from other disciplines, including 

epidemiology, and more recently digital hhumanities. Her studies have contributed to a biosocial framework for understanding how

the symbolic and social effects of drugs interact with their biomedical effects in everyday life, published in the The Social Lives of Medicines (2002). Her research in the eld of AIDS has generated new insights on how poverty and hunger hinders ahunger hinders access to life-saving AIDS

medicines, and how social forms travel with medical technologies to diverse settings, changing care arrangements in situ.

How might the humanities be better integrated into health research and grants? The NIH Cultural Framework for Health is one example of how the humanities can be leveraged for health research impact. But how can humanities ccontributions to proposed research be assessed in terms of research costs? What are the known pitfalls of highly interdisciplinary research teams, and can strategic pre-planning help to avoid them? Please join Anita Hardon in a workshop with Campus IRB and grant specialists, and health and humanities faculty.

Co-Sponsored by the Duke Global Health Institute

FridayOct. 219:30-11:15AM

127 BostockThe Edge

Workshop Room