Stories by Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji is available now for preorder.

Vaccines

We Need School-Age Vaccine Mandates to End the COVID Pandemic

Vaccine refusal by parents is not about a lack of education, but amassing social status

November 24, 2021 — Emily Mendenhall | Opinion

Public Health

How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic

Overlapping diseases and social conditions in the U.S. continue to dictate who is hurt most badly by the novel coronavirus

August 26, 2021 — Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee | Opinion