Events
Upcoming Health Studies Events
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Registration is open for A&S NEXT. Health Studies professors Courtney Blondino and Margaret Tait will be coordinating a case study on Balancing the Business of Healthcare while Nigel James facilitates one on Tackling Youth Mental Health: Developing a Roadmap for Richmond. Join A&S faculty, students, and alumni at the Marriott Downtown Richmond January 31-Febuary 1, 2025. Please register in Handshake by December 19.
Past Health Studies Events
Fall Study Break '24
Faculty and students joined us for our Fall Study Break on Wednesday, December 11 from 1:00-3:00 in the Health Studies suite, G21 Richmond Hall. There were yummy treats, winter themed games, and relaxing coloring activities. Goodie bags were given to the first 20 students.
Revive!
Save a life with Naloxone training. Faculty, staff, and students attended REVIVE! training presented by Det. Angie Dubose, URPD, and Kelly Fugate, Prevention and Recovery Support Coordinator Well-Being Center. The department is hoping to offer this again in the spring. If interesested in more information, email Stephanie Fillman.
Health Studies Ice Cream Social
Health Studies Scavenger Hunt
Race, Capital, and the Financialization of Health Politics
Colleen Grogan and Guian McKee explained how the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government in U.S. health care. The U.S. government has always invested federal, state, and local dollars in public health protection and prevention. Despite this public funding, however, Americans typically believe the current system is predominantly comprised of private actors with little government interference. As both authors revealled, the U.S. has never had a system that resembles a competitive, free-market model. So, before sweeping reform can ever fix America’s broken health care system, we must have an honest discussion about the significant public investment buoying the private sector. This panel also focused on urban hospitals and academic medical centers. The country’s high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet this spending has constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. And the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed directly to racial health disparities.
Sponsored by the Department of Health Studies, The Department of Political Science, the Africana Studies Program, and the Business School.
Women's Health in 2023: Family Planning, Health Promotion, & Reproductive Health in the U.S.
This program on women’s health, led by Dr. Terri Page, DNP, of Virginia Women’s Center and Dr. Nicole Karjane, MD, in the department of obstetrics & gynecology at the VCU School of Medicine, provided UR students the chance to learn more about the role of nurse practitioners and OBGYNs in women’s health. The event also provided a forum for the discussion of women’s health and reproductive health rights and needs in the U.S. from both medical and public health perspectives.
Sponsored by the Department of Health Studies, Pre-Health Studies, the Gottwald Speaker Series, and WGSS.
Where We Live Matters: Equity, Health, and Housing
The Department of Health Studies welcomed Mariah Williams, M.U.R.P, a University of Richmond alum, to campus for her talk: 'Where We Live Matters: Equity, Health, and Housing.'
Sponsored by the Gottwald Speaker Series, Africana Studies program, and the Department of Health Studies.