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Check out Stephen Cherry's new book: Importing Care, Faithful Service: Filipino and Indian American Nurses at a Veterans Hospital rutgersuniversitypress.org/importing-care… It shows how Catholicism shapes professional & community lives of immigrant Filipino & Indian nurses ASA Medical Sociology University of Houston-Clear Lake

The last 2 years have highlighted the importance of our social networks in our health and behavior. Check out the dev of social network analysis and health in the JHSB: doi.org/10.1177/002214…. @AlexChapmanSOC, Ashton M. Verdery, James Moody, Duke University, Penn State, ASA Medical Sociology


The BU team and I are eager to receive your manuscript, and to engage you as peer reviewers -- an essential role in shaping the field of med soc! JHSB ASA Medical Sociology BU Center for Innovation in Social Science PAA @ia4phs asanet.org/asa-news-summe…

Important announcement! The deadline for this has been pushed back to Sept. 30. ASA Medical Sociology Eastern Soc. Society Sociology of Health Professions Education ASA SKAT Section ASA Sociology

It’s finally announced! Super thrilled I’ve been awarded the Roberta G. Simmons Outstanding Dissertation Award. I study elements of health that have been historically sidelined, so for my work to be recognized like this by ASA Sociology means a lot to me.


Congratulations to IU Sociology Ph.D. candidate Emily Ekl (Emily Ekl) for receiving the Louise Johnson Scholar Award from ASA Medical Sociology! Read more about her research below!


A new paper from our Housing and Diabetes project is out in JAMA Network Open. We find that project-based housing may improve diabetes outcomes. Congrats to Yale Housing & Health Equity Lab @whitneydenary Danya Keene Kasia Lipska jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…


Only 8 days to the Online Sociological Research Jamboree! We have 5 fantastic research sessions including a presentation from @_AlexBrewer_ who recently received an honorable mention for the ASA Medical Sociology dissertation award. Congrats, we're looking forward to your presentation!



It's my great honor to be part of deb umberson's Reeder Award paper, with @HyungminCha. Using @Add_Health and Health and Retirement Study, we identified distinctive gendered patterns of social isolation across the life course from adolescence to late adulthood ASA Medical Sociology UT PRC The Center for Aging and Population Sciences

Congratulations to @TaniaMJenkins, author of DOCTORS' ORDERS, for receiving an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Practice of Medical Sociology from ASA Medical Sociology #ASA2022 buff.ly/3vdt5xe #AwardWinner #Science #Medicine


Most recently, Adverse Events by Jill Fisher won the 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, given by ASA Medical Sociology. This is the SECOND ASA award for this incisive book, which won the 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by ASA SKAT Section. nyupress.org/9781479862160/…
