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EP #358 - 10.14.2021 - Medical Scarcity and COVID-19

EP #358 - 10.14.2021 - Medical Scarcity and COVID-19

FromCOVIDCalls


EP #358 - 10.14.2021 - Medical Scarcity and COVID-19

FromCOVIDCalls

ratings:
Length:
72 minutes
Released:
Oct 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Dr.  George Aumoithe  is an Assistant Professor of Global Health. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2018 and completed postdoctoral training in legal history at Princeton University in 2020. Dr. Aumoithe's research  focuses on the effect of anti-inflationary economic policy and colorblind legal ideology on public hospitals. His research interests engage problems in political economy, social welfare policy, public health, curative medicine, and epidemic preparedness. In 2019, Dr. Aumoithe  organized a national conference called   Law, Difference, and Healthcare: Making Sense of Structural Racism in Medico-Legal History . He directs the inaugural Global Health and Health Inequality Mapping Lab in Africana Studies.  Dr. Aumoithe is currently completing a book manuscript tentatively titled  Medical Scarcity: The Political Economy of Healthcare Rights in America. "Dismantling the Safety Net Hospital: The Construction of 'Underutilization' and Scarce Public Healthcare" has been accepted for publication and is forthcoming at the Journal of Urban History.
Released:
Oct 15, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

A daily discussion of the COVID-19 pandemic with a diverse collection of disaster experts - hosted by Dr. Scott Gabriel Knowles, a historian of disasters at KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.