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Medicine
Sowa Rigpa: The Science of Healing as Local Practice, National Heritage, and Global Brand
Rubenstein Library, Room 249 411 Chapel Dr, Durham, NC, United StatesA lecture by Sienna Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Dartmouth College. Sienna Craig is a professor of cultural anthropology at Dartmouth College, invested in understanding the multiple ways that so-called 'traditional' medical systems interact with biomedicine: from patient-healer relationships … Read more
Pay-It-Forward Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Testing for Gay Men in China
FedEx Global Education Center, Room 1009 301 Pittsboro St., Chapel Hill, NC, United StatesOur final China Speaker Series will feature Joseph Tucker, Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UNC Chapel Hill and director of UNC Project-China. Is kindness contagious among gay men in China? We designed a quasi-experimental study to … Read more
International Symposium on South Asian Complementary Medical Systems and the COVID-19 Response.
Five prominent Indian practitioners from the disciplines of Ayurvedic, Unani, and Homeopathic medicine will share insights from their respective fields about the pandemic and the global efforts to combat it. The experts include government officials, academics, and business leaders. … Read more
Mental Health: The Hidden Epidemic
This webinar series is part of the Modern Indian Studies Initiative at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. As a leading public university and home to the largest Asia Studies Center in the southeastern U.S., Carolina is uniquely … Read more
Global Health Visiting Scholars Symposium
FedEx Global Education Center Room 1009 NC, United StatesSpeakers participating in the China Visiting Scholars Program and the Vietnam Implementation Science Advancement Program (VISA) will present their work-in-progress during their time at UNC Chapel Hill. UNC faculty members Mike Cohen, Irving Hoffman, Joe Tucker, Vivian Go, and Weiming … Read more
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