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The Department
of Social Medicine's faculty of physicians and social scientists conducts
research in the social sciences and humanities as they apply to health
and medicine. Social Medicine's cross-cultural research and training
extend the Department's work worldwide and seek to promote better health
both in the U.S. and abroad. The Department's research programs also
contribute to the development of medical students, postdoctoral researchers
and clinicians.
It is a long-standing conviction of the Department that the research
be 'clinically relevant.' For example, members of the Program in Infectious
Disease and Social Change conduct basic research that involves clinical,
epidemiological and ethnographic methods in settings in which they contribute
directly to health care for the poor. Similarly, research in the field
of mental health is aimed at transforming policies concerning mental
health services internationally.
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