April 19, 2022. Co-PIs Sari Altschuler and Christopher M. Parsons have been awarded an NEH Humanities Connections Implementation Grant to build curriculum and events around humanities interventions into the future of healthcare. The grant project “Humanities and the Digital Future of Health and Healthcare” proposes the development of a half major in health humanities for undergraduates. Read the announcement here.
From the grant:
“Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a group of physicians declared, ‘Whether or not healthcare enterprises are ready, the new reality is that virtual care has arrived.’ COVID-19 has made healthcare more data-driven and digital–and revealed how data-driven and digital it already was. We propose to implement a curriculum at Northeastern University that prepares students both to address the social and cultural aspects of this digital revolution and to be alert to the significant ethical issues it raises. Our digital health humanities curriculum will train students for the work of the future by giving them humanistic, health, and computer sciences skills. Collaborating with faculty across these disciplines as well as local partners, we will design four new courses to grow our Health Humanities minor into a half major, which will paired with Health Science and Public Health to form two new combined majors. The courses will also serve three minors, preparing diverse sets of students with interdisciplinary skills for tomorrow’s jobs, and the grant will support experiential learning opportunities such as work placements and student research in and beyond the university.”
This grant builds on the $35,000 NEH Humanities Connections Planning Grant the two faculty members won in 2020. Read more about the 2020 grant.
