MHHA is a network of practitioners, researchers and artists across Africa interested in health-related issues.
Our aim is to provide a space for people to develop work in this area, to showcase their projects and to provide information on related initiatives on the continent and beyond.
We are pleased to announce that next summer, 3-5 July, we will be hosting a transdisciplinary conference on sexual reproduction and health rights (SRHR) at the University of Amsterdam, through the anthropology department. We welcome traditional paper and panel proposals as well as workshops or experimental formats.
The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia seeks to recruit an outstanding faculty member as part of a University-wide Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative to recruit up to 23 Black scholars over the next four years. We invite applications from qualified candidates for a full-time, tenure-track appointment...
Working with people to reduce health risks from toxic exposure An interdisciplinary team of researchers from four South African universities are looking for a highly skilled postdoctoral candidate to join our research project titled “Health impacts on children living near an accidental release of pesticides near Durban, South Africa”. This...
The symposium is an extension of the ideas put forward through the edited collection of works presented in the book Bodies of Knowledge: Childhoods in Health and Affliction (2021) by Efua Prah and Susan Levine. The symposium aims to continue the discussion about young people, adolescents, and childhoods across varied...
Join us for the concluding event of Season Three of Conversations about Arts, Humanities and Health with: Dr Chisomo Kalinga (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Carla Tsampiras (University of Cape Town) on Thursday 16 June at 4:00pm - 5:00pm BST (online)
Led by Angela Woods (Director) and Ben Alderson-Day (Co-director), the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) will tackle intellectual and practical barriers – of diversity, connection, risk, evidence and scale – faced in medical humanities research.
Led by Angela Woods (Director) and Ben Alderson-Day (Co-director), the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) will tackle intellectual and practical barriers – of diversity, connection, risk, evidence and scale – faced in medical humanities research. This is the largest grant made by Wellcome for humanities research and recognises...
A weekly seminar hosted by the University of Johannesburg's Departments of Sociology, Anthropology and Development Studies.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
The Call for Papers for Critical: NNMHR Congress 2023 has now gone live.
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