The HI Science Studies Research Workshop will host a pre-circulated chapter workshop with Antoine Johnson, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Dr. Johnson will workshop a pre-circulated draft book chapter on a Black gay AIDS activist who founded or participated in multiple organizations in the mid-1980s that practiced what today we would call “structural competency,” creating effective educational, awareness, and prevention programs in poor and working-class Black and Latinx communities disproportionately impacted by the AIDS epidemic.

Dr. Antoine Johnson earned his Ph.D. in the History of Health Sciences from the University of California, San Francisco. His dissertation, “More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1996,” explored ways in which Black grassroots organizers confronted HIV/AIDS and structural-medical racism that exposed their communities to infection. His research interests include the AIDS epidemic, anti-Black racism in medicine, twentieth-century American History, and hip-hop culture.

 Pre-registration at https://forms.gle/wzASner4fPvi925WA 

A public talk will also take place at Fitz Books on April 24, 5:30pm. Click here for details.

UB SPONSORS: Humanities Institute Science Studies Workshop; Drugs, Health and Society Program; Departments of History, Sociology, Global Gender and Sexuality Studies; the Gender Institute; Community Health Equity Research Institute; Department of Community Health and Health Behaviors; School of Social Work 

 For questions about either event email David Herzberg at herzberg@buffalo.edu