CLCS Awards in the Public Humanities 2022/2023 Cohort: Dr. Michelle Moncrieffe

The NAME Project: The Narratives and Medical Education Project

Project Description:

The Narratives and Medical Education (NAME) project is focused on understanding and responding to racism in health care by generating an innovative, replicable community-engagement model that disrupts ineffective traditional systems of care and seeks to understand the experiences of marginalized communities through narrative research. Healthcare outcomes for racial and ethnic minorities present a stark divide between populations who are able to access regular care, and communities struggling to receive basic and sometimes life-saving treatment. The public health challenge of racism will initially be explored within the context of dental care.

Bio:

Michelle V. Moncrieffe is a lecturer, advisor and transdisciplinary researcher. She is the Principal Investigator/Director of the NAME project. As well as being a certified health education specialist (CHES), Michelle is a freelance health journalist. Over two decades, her work has been published in Baltimore Magazine, Johns Hopkins Health Review and local newspapers across the U.S. Michelle earned her MA in Journalism (with a focus on health communication) from the University of Iowa. Thereafter, she was a research associate for a global health project at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Michelle’s first teaching experience was at the Tanzania School of Journalism, in Dar es Salaam. Although Michelle has not lived in her hometown for many years, she still describes herself as a Londoner.