Samuel Merritt University's Community Reads is a community-wide initiative, centered on shared reading of literature and a deep dialog related to critical issues in healthcare. Throughout the year, we engage in conversation as a community while reading and exploring issues related to the structural and social determinants of health in order to reduce health inequities.
The Cross Cultural Medicine Anthology is a junior capstone project, created by English teacher Jessica Forbes, where Public Health Academy students at Oakland High research and write a health narrative based on their own experiences and culture. The project includes analysis and discussion of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down, inquiry into students’ cultural and personal beliefs about specific health practices and ethnographic research. These essays are combined to create a powerful book capturing issues of health inequities, access, and culture in our local community.
Books will be available for purchase (no pre-reading required).
Tues, May 14, 2024, 12-1pm (zoom option 12:10-12:30pm)
Samuel Merritt University | Health Education Center
400 Hawthorne Ave, Bechtel Room (1st floor)
Oakland, CA 94609
