EXPLORING HUMANITY'S RESPONSES TO
INFECTIOUS, SOCIAL, & IMAGINED
HEALTH CRISES

"Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing else could."- Roy

IMAGINE OUR WORLD ANEW

Please help us reimagine our world. Join us for a rapid-response series of virtual town halls led by international thought leaders in dialogue with Medical Humanities faculty from the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences and dedicated to addressing the emergent role of the arts and humanities in the COVID-19 pandemic. Each speaker will  identify 3 ways humanity might remake the world for a better post-pandemic future.

"And in the midst of this terrible despair, [the pandemic] offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves."​- Roy

FRONT-LINE MEDICAL HUMANITIES

Our speakers comprise a broad range of leading visionaries from academia, the arts, clinical medicine, public policy, and Indigenous healing traditions, and all have unique expertise that is critical to understanding, not only the current global pandemic, but also the broader ways that the arts and humanities have been used, are being used, or can be used to frame interventions, solutions, or greater understanding of global health emergencies. 

"Nothing could be worse than a return to normality"- Roy

The Speakers

Frank Snowden,
​PhD  

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine, Yale University. Author of Epidemics and Society ​From the Black Death to the Present (2019)

Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Writer, Performer

Guggenheim Social Practice Fellow ​and Vice President and Artistic Director of Social Impact at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.  Bamuthi’s opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times
Chief Leonard Crow Dog, Sicangu Lakota Medicine Man and Activist.

​Co-Founder of the American Indian Movement. Co-Leader of Wounded Knee Occupation. Co-author of Crow Dog: Four Generations of Sioux Medicine Men. New York: HarperCollins (1995)
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Jasmine L. Blanks Jones, MPP

 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar, Dr. William Fontaine Fellow in Africana Studies, and a George and Alice S. Hill Fellow in education, University of Pennsylvania.  Found-er and Executive Director for B4 Youth Theatre, a Liberian NGO: Teaming with UNICEF in Liberia, artists from age 10 to 18 create plays that promoted good public health practices. 

David Muller,
​MD  

Dean for Medical Education and the Marietta and Charles C. Morchand Chair in Medical Education at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New  York City. ​Co-founder of The Arnhold Global Health Institute

Valencia Walker,
MD

Associate Chief Diversity and Health Equity Officer
Nationwide Children's Hospital;
Associate Division Chief for Health Equity and Inclusion
Department of Pediatrics l Division of Neonatology
The Ohio State University College of Medicine