Artist: Tarika-Art
Photo Credit: Jonathan Flores
Mission
A historic partnership between Georgetown and Howard, The Center for Medical Humanities and Health Justice fosters learning, research, and public engagement at the intersection of humanities and healthcare in Washington, DC.
Meet MHHJ's
2024-2025 LORE Fellowship Cohort
Strategic Priorities
Organized around three pillars— research, education, and public engagement— the Center serves as a confederating space that allows practitioners, creatives, academics, and community members to act as a force multiplier for the medical humanities in DC.
Research
Demonstrate how the tools and methods of medical humanities can understand and offer broader / alternative perspectives upon targeted healthcare and health justice issues in Washington, DC.
Artist: Cory B
Photo Credit: Jonathan Flores
Education
Focus cross-institutional educational opportunities at the Center that amplify our unique institutional strengths.
Howard University
Hospital
Public Engagement
Broaden the reach of the medical humanities and establish the Center’s leadership role in the dynamic conversation between the humanities and medicine/healthcare.
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