AAHM 2025

Enjoy medically-themed works of art in the collections of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard Art Museums, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston using this detailed guide.

Information gathered by Christine Bentley (PhD). Assisted by: Jen Thum (PhD), Brooke DiGiovanni Evans (EdM), Corinne Zimmermann (MA, MEd), and Dabney Hailey (MA). Design by Elmira Bagherzadeh (MFA).

Annual in-person meeting of the AAHM Council. Lunch is served.

Come to the AAHM Registration Desk with your questions or needs for assistance. Please see the AAHM Visitors Guide tab in Sched for useful information.

Wi-Fi
Network: Marriott Bonvoy Conference Access Code: AAHM2025

A lactation room is available on the 3rd level of the hotel. Ask for the key at registration. Please see the AAHM registration desk for the key.

Gender-neutral restrooms are available on the 3rd level of the hotel near the Commonwealth Ballroom.

1. Health Activists Meet the Moment: Sharing Knowledge, Taking Action

President Trump’s various executive orders and actions since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, have disrupted the work of federal workers, educators, and healthcare workers. These attacks, in turn, have also made immigrants, people of color, women, poor people, and queer and trans people more vulnerable to danger. As we near the end of the first hundred days of President Trump’s second term, the Sigerist Circle gathers health activists from the realms of medicine, public health, public policy and education to take stock of the recent attacks on health and healthcare. Panelists on this roundtable will share their perspective on the crisis, offer examples of how they and others are responding to the political moment, and provide proposals on what ought to be done.

Roundtable Panelists:

Special Plenary Session funded by the Doris Duke Foundation
“Engaging in the Debates about the Uses of Race in Medicine”                      
                                                                                                                                
Moderator: David Jones, Harvard University 

Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University 
Aaron Panofsky, University of California, Los Angeles 
Jenny Reardon, University of California, Santa Cruz 
Michael Yudell, Arizona State University  

Ongoing debates about the meanings and uses of race in medicine have given historians and other social scientists an opportunity to engage with physicians and medical scientists in an effort to enhance understanding of the complexities of race. The panelists will share what they have learned from their efforts to participate in these important and difficult discussions. The panel hopes to launch a discussion with conference attendees that will continue throughout the sessions that follow.

The Corner Tavern is .4 miles away up Massachusetts Avenue from the Sheraton at 421 Marlborough Street in Bay Back. Osaremen Okolo from Harvard will lead a group over from the Sheraton if you would like to walk with a group. Meet in the Republic Foyer, right outside the opening AAHM reception in the Republic Ballroom. The group will depart at 8 pm.