Upcoming Events



New Book Lecture Series-Fall 2022
Our Fall 2022 New Book Lecture Series, titled “Writing Health through Black Feminist Theory” featured Natali Valdez’s “Weighing the Future:Race, Science, and Pregnancy Trials in the Postgenomic Era”, in conversation with Victoria Massie as Discussant and Adeola Oni-Orisan as Moderator.

New Book Lecture Series-Spring 2022
Our Spring 2022 New Book Lecture Series, titled “Writing Health through Black Feminist Theory” featured forthcoming book “Unseen Flesh: Black Lesbian Worth Making and Gynecological Trauma in Bahia” by Nessette Falu & new book “Sweetness in the Blood: Race, Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes” by James Doucet-Battle.

2021 BFHSS Collaboratory
This 3-day interdisciplinary collective laboratory (collaboratory) brought together scholars, creatives, organizers, and activists working to highlight the importance of the incorporation of social justice into the medical sciences. This first BFHSS Collaboratory centered on the theme of Racial Geographies of Health and Wellness.