Embedding Humanities in Interprofessional Healthcare Education

FAIN: AA-295791-24

D'Youville University (Buffalo, NY 14201-1032)
Gina Camodeca (Project Director: May 2023 to November 2024)
Joshua Gooch (Project Director: November 2024 to present)
Renee Cadzow (Co Project Director: June 2023 to September 2024)

The three-year development of a health humanities interprofessional education program at the graduate level.

With support from the NEH for a Humanities Initiative, D'Youville University (DYU) will develop Humanities Interprofessional Education (HIPE) (pronounced hype) curricula/co-curricula for graduate health professions programs. The US healthcare system, by design, perpetuates social, cultural, economic, and racial inequality in that the receipt of health insurance and healthcare is tied to income and job status as well as class and race. Additionally, healthcare providers can consciously and unconsciously perpetuate injustices in their unequal and often biased delivery of care. HIPE intends to redress these problems.