Chisomo Kalinga

As a Medical Humanities Fellow at IASH, Chisomo will be working on a new project to build an international platform for collaboration and exchange between individuals and institutions within critical disabilities and health and medical humanities studies. Using the existing platform at IASH’s Medical and Health Humanities research hub, her aim is to build a sustainable research network, which will culminate with the first of three international 2-day symposium on access, equality and inclusion in critical disabilities and medical humanities research, hosted by the University of Edinburgh. In addition to hosting a symposium, the space will facilitate the development of an exchange programme across the inter-related fields of health, medical and disability studies and position IASH and University of Edinburgh to pursue further interdisciplinary partnerships in the fields of study.  In addition to foregrounding medical humanities research at IASH, the network and symposium will assemble a technical working group of leading advisors and investigators within global disability and health humanities studies. Invited guests will represent Europe, North and Central America, Africa, South America, the Caribbean, Middle East, Asia and Australasia, with specific inclusion objectives for indigenous and marginalized communities across the world.