with Professor Keisha Ray "Experience as Health Data" What the Health Humanities Teach Us about Listening to Black Women

Co-sponsored  by the Gaines Center for the Humanities, the Behavioral Health Humanities Speaker Series welcomes Keisha Ray as the third speaker in the 2024-2025 series. Keisha's lecture, Experience as Health Data: What the Health Humanities Teaches us About Listening to Black Narratives will take place at 7:30pm on Monday November 18, via zoom. The health humanities, with its emphasis on the value of telling stories and listening to stories, provides a strong argument for including Black people’s experiences with seeking health care and with social institutions that influence their generally poorer health outcomes in our discourse on the status of Black people’s health. In this presentation , Professor Ray makes the argument that Black health and health equity research is obligated to include Black people’s narratives as a means of respecting our culture and presenting an accurate and complete picture of how anti-Black racism affects health equity for Black people.

Join us on zoom at this link: https://uky.zoom.us/j/86179443095    

Professor Keisha Ray, PhD is a tenured Associate Professor and holds the John P. McGovern, MD Professorship of Oslerian Medicine at the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at UT Health Houston, where she also serves as the Director of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Most of Dr. Ray’s work focuses on the effects of institutional racism on Black people's health, highlighting Black people's own stories, and the sociopolitical implications of biomedical enhancement.