Department of Humanities

Penn State College of Medicine

Feb. 19, 2025 Grand Rounds

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Graphic Public Health:
A Tool for Health Communication,
Education, and Advocacy

What is Graphic Public Health? Taylor will discuss the relationship between Graphic Public Health and Graphic Medicine as well as its application in public health communication, education, and advocacy. Taylor will provide some insights into this growing medium, sharing her own journey as a cartoonist and editor, as well as comics from various creators.

February 19, 2025
12 noon–1:00 pm
Room: C2860

This event will be held in person and via Zoom:
https://psu.zoom.us/j/98341071236? Password: 594370
More information please email Lori Ricard

color photograph of Whit TaylorPresented by: Whit Taylor, MPH

Ignatz-Award winning cartoonist, editor, and public health educator Whit Taylor is an Ignatz-Award winning cartoonist, editor, and public health educator from New Jersey. She holds a BA in cultural anthropology from Brown University and an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health. In recent years, she has worked as a freelancer and contributing editor for The Nib. Her public health history book with artist Joyce Rice, The Greater Good, will be published by First Second in 2026.

Color illustration of a woman of clor walking through a baby's bedroom with a thought bubble rising from her head. In the bubble are the words, the doctors, scared, 35 years old, died of complications from, she is survived by, things went wrong, why?

CE’s are available for Penn State Health and College of Medicine employees.
Eeds sign in Methods: Text Code to 828-295-1144 • Visit eeds.com | eeds iPhone/Android App. The Activity Sign-In Code is: 74inby and expires Feb. 20 @ 12:00 p.m. AIN#: 0996
Credit Designation: Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Grand Rounds

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January 24, 2025

Promoting Justice:
Challenges in Reaching the Good Place

January 24th, 2025 • 12 noon-1:00 pm
Room: C2860

Also via Zoom: psu.zoom.us/j/96394163792?
Password: 608534

This presentation will discuss how issues of justice arise in the course of providing medical care. It will include a general discussion of what justice involves, opportunities for promoting justice, and challenges that arise when we try to do so. Included as an example is the allocation of scarce critical resources during the height of the Covid pandemic.

Color photograph of Benjamin Levi, MD, PhDPresented by:
Benjamin H. Levi, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics and Humanities

CE’s are available for Penn State Health and College of Medicine employees.

Eeds sign in Methods: Text Code to 828-295-1144 • Visit eeds.com | eeds iPhone/Android App.
The Activity Sign-In Code is: 03gunk and expires Jan. 25 @ 12:00 p.m. • AIN#: 0995

Credit Designation: Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
• Describe what “justice” means
• Explain how ‘scarce critical resources’ during the Covid pandemic raised issues of justice
• Describe challenges that hinder efforts to promote justice

For more information email lricard@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Feb. 19, 2025

Graphic Public Health:
A Tool for Health Communication,
Education, and Advocacy

What is Graphic Public Health? Taylor will discuss the relationship between Graphic Public Health and Graphic Medicine as well as its application in public health communication, education, and advocacy. Taylor will provide some insights into this growing medium, sharing her own journey as a cartoonist and editor, as well as comics from various creators.

February 19, 2025
12 noon–1:00 pm
Room: C2860

This event will be held in person and via Zoom:
https://psu.zoom.us/j/98341071236? Password: 594370
More information please email Lori Ricard

color photograph of Whit TaylorPresented by: Whit Taylor, MPH

Ignatz-Award winning cartoonist, editor, and public health educator Whit Taylor is an Ignatz-Award winning cartoonist, editor, and public health educator from New Jersey. She holds a BA in cultural anthropology from Brown University and an MPH from the Boston University School of Public Health. In recent years, she has worked as a freelancer and contributing editor for The Nib. Her public health history book with artist Joyce Rice, The Greater Good, will be published by First Second in 2026.

Color illustration of a woman of clor walking through a baby's bedroom with a thought bubble rising from her head. In the bubble are the words, the doctors, scared, 35 years old, died of complications from, she is survived by, things went wrong, why?

CE’s are available for Penn State Health and College of Medicine employees.
Eeds sign in Methods: Text Code to 828-295-1144 • Visit eeds.com | eeds iPhone/Android App. The Activity Sign-In Code is: 74inby and expires Feb. 20 @ 12:00 p.m. AIN#: 0996
Credit Designation: Penn State College of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

Connecting Through Literature Book Club

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The goal of this discussion group is to strengthen our community ties and expand understanding through reading.

This book club is a collaboration between the Department of Humanities and Harrell Health Sciences Library and is open to all Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health faculty, nurses, health care providers, staff, students, and members of our surrounding community. Come having read all, some or none of the selected books or readings for new perspectives. Meetings are held over Zoom between 12 noon and 1:00 p.m.. Registration is required to receive the link to attend! Meeting info will be sent by email the day before the event.

Upcoming book discussions:

the 2024 -5 Book Club Book Covers

Feb. 12, 2025
The Yellow Wallpaper
by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Click here to register to attend The Yellow Wallpaper book discussion.

April 9, 2025
The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store: A Novel
by James McBride
Noon-1:00 pm • via Zoom & meet in person Room C2609D
Click here to register to attend The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store

For more information and to register to attend visit
harrell.library.psu.edu/bookclub

Daniela Dluzynski

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Humanism is discovering and celebrating the inherent value, diversity, and dignity of every person and prioritizing compassion and understanding in each interaction. This authentic and genuine desire to see, love, and care for others is at the core of who I am and why I chose to pursue medicine. 

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