Advancing Digital Health Humanities Institute

FAIN: HT-293880-23

University of California, San Francisco (San Francisco, CA 94143-2203)
Kathryn E. Stine (Project Director: February 2023 to October 2023)
Polina E. Ilieva (Project Director: October 2023 to present)
Polina E. Ilieva (Co Project Director: August 2023 to October 2023)

An institute exploring various computational methods for ethically working with large-scale collections of digitized and born-digital archival health science materials records for humanistic scholarship. 

Digital health humanities (DHH) leverages digital methods to critically analyze archival health sciences materials for humanistic research. The Advancing DHH Institute, hosted by UCSF, investigates how and where cross-disciplinary expertise and data analysis methods can advance understanding of the effects of illness and disease on patients, health professionals, and the social worlds in which they live and work. Through workshops and seminars working with “archives as data” materials, researchers develop familiarity with critical DHH methods and issues. The institute nurtures research on the human experience of health and illness and develops insights into how social, cultural, historical, and other factors impact individual and public health. Programming brings together researchers across domains, from data science to humanistic social science, and history of medicine, to identify common strengths and potential translations from distinctive methods as applied to humanistic research.