This series connects current-day events and issues in medicine and public health with their longer histories. The series is organized in collaboration with the Education and Outreach Committee of the American Association for the History of Medicine.
Federal Regulations: Progressive Era and Beyond
Federal regulations are typically borne out of crisis. This conversation will examine how policy is set, starting in the Progressive Era and moving into the present day.
Recorded on October 7, 2025.
Closed captioning available on YouTube.
Featuring
Arthur Daemmrich, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, Arizona State University
Gwen Kay, State University of New York at Oswego
Todd Olszewski, Providence College
Lauren Thompson, Kennesaw State University
Medicine Crossing Borders: Immigration and Health
"Medicine Crossing Borders" explores how issues of immigration, medicine, and health have intersected in the past and present. The panelists will discuss policy, public opinion, and medical practices that have shaped immigrant experiences as both patients and as practitioners. They will discuss race, citizenship, and access to care across time and place, and think through how these histories can help us understand the crises of immigration and health today.
Recorded on October 9, 2025.
Closed captioning available on YouTube.
Featuring
Eram Alam, Associate Professor, History of Science, Harvard University
William Lopez, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Health Behavior and Health Equity, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Rachel Louise Moran, Professor, Texas A&M
Joel Daniel Olea-Calixto, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Andre Rosario, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Nursing, Rutgers University
Trans and Intersex Health from Past to Future
"Trans and Intersex Health from Past to Future" will bring together academics and activists to explore the history of trans and intersex people’s experiences of health and medicine in a global perspective. The discussion will examine histories of clinical practices, state policy, individual identity, and community making in the United States, and beyond. The panelists will reflect on how these histories can help us think about the present, and future, of trans and intersex health.
Recorded on October 9, 2025
Closed captioning available on YouTube.
Featuring
Howard Chiang, Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dallas Denny, Activist and co-editor of “A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States”
Xavier Nunn, Northwestern University
Moderator
Carlo Sariego, PhD Candidate in Sociology & Gender Studies, Yale University
Rovel Sequeira, Assistant Professor of Women's and Gender Studies and English, University of Michigan