Health Humanities: Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare

FAIN: EH-293738-23

Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD 21218-2608)
Kamna Balhara (Project Director: February 2023 to present)
Alexandre White (Co Project Director: February 2023 to present)

A virtual institute for 25 medical and nursing faculty to study the health humanities.

National health professions organizations have advocated for integrating the humanities in health professions education. Concurrently, healthcare credentialing bodies have highlighted the need to identify educational frameworks to understand injustice in health. At the confluence of these essential areas for growth in health professions education, the Health Humanities hold significant promise in helping health professions educators address health equity. However, few opportunities exist for health professions faculty to understand how to apply the Health Humanities in their educational or scholarly praxis towards facilitating critical reflexivity on structural racism and generating awareness of social and historical contexts of health inequities. We propose a virtual institute for 25 higher education faculty (physician/nursing faculty engaged in educating health professions learners) to explore the role of Health Humanities in dismantling structural injustice in healthcare.