Perspectives on Health Equity Seminar Series

The CGHE Perspectives on Health Equity seminar series is an interdisciplinary forum for socially engaged research on health and medicine. The seminar series will bring together NYU Shanghai faculty and graduate students, as well as colleagues from other institutions, serving as a forum for intellectual exchange and for community building.  We welcome presentations that investigate the social contexts of health and healing from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Speakers can present original research, receive feedback on ongoing projects, organize panel discussions, or propose other formats for the seminar.

The seminar series is intended to support both our community and our own research, and we welcome presentations on topics that you are now thinking and writing about. These informal seminars are opportunities to learn about each other's research, to receive feedback on current projects, and to spark productive conversations.

If you are interested in giving a talk or inviting a speaker, please contact Amir Hampel at amir.hampel@nyu.edu

Session Information

Nov 18, 2022 session: "Entertaining interventions – The use of entertainment games as mental health interventions" with Prof. Thomas J. Nyman, New York University Shanghai

Oct 19, 2023 session: "Becoming of Cancer: Biomedical Legibility and the Invisibility of Alternative Therapies in Urban Tanzania" with Prof. Yunus Rafiq, New York University Shanghai

Oct 26, 2023 session: "Mindfulness-based intervention strategies to reduce stigma and promote health: What we learned from research with marginalized communities in the U.S." with Prof. Shufang Sun, Brown University School of Public Health

Nov 9, 2023 session: "'Watering-Down' Strict HIV Testing Quotas on Chinese Men Who Have Sex with Men Community-Based Organizations" with Dr. Andrew Wortham, New York University Shanghai

Nov 28, 2023 session: "Social Determinants of Migrants and Refugee Mental Health" with Prof. Wen Chen, Sun Yat-sen University

Dec 8, 2023 session: "Policies addressing unsafe opioid prescribing in the United States" with Prof. Yuhua Bao, Weill Cornell Medicine 

Please refer to the specific link for information on each talk and to RSVP.

In-person and via Zoom
Perspectives on Health Equity Seminar Series