Author Meets Critics – Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare – Dr. Nora Kenworthy
Posted: 10/3/2024 (CSDE Seminar Series)
- When: Friday, Oct 11, 2024 (12:30-1:30PM)
- Where: 360 Parrington Hall and on Zoom (register here)
We are looking forward to hosting Nora Kenworthy (School of Nursing and Health Studies, University of Washington Bothell) on Friday, Oct. 11 in Parrington Hall 360 and on Zoom. This seminar is co-sponsored by the Population Health Initiative.
Join UW Bothell Professor and CSDE Affiliate Nora Kenworthy for an author-meets-critics discussion of her recent book, Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Health Care (MIT Press). Crowded Out draws on nearly a decade of research on crowdfunding for health care costs in the US and around the globe, showing how this now ubiquitous form of charitable assistance is fueled by, and further reinforces, the financial and moral “toxicities” of market-based health systems. Using ethnographic and quantitative data, the book examines how charitable crowdfunding so quickly overtook public life, and who gets left behind by these new platformed economies. Dr. Kenworthy will be joined by Anjum Hajat (Epidemiology, UW) and Amy Hagopian (Health Systems and Population Health, UW).
Author:
Nora Kenworthy is a Professor of Nursing and Health Studies at the University of Washington Bothell. She is also adjunct faculty in the Departments of Global Health and Anthropology at UW Seattle. Broadly speaking, her work examines how politics, technology, and inequality affect health. She is the author of Crowded Out: The True Costs of Crowdfunding Healthcare (MIT Press, 2024), and of the award-winning ethnography, Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho (Vanderbilt University Press, 2017). She received her PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University.
Critics:
Dr. Anjum Hajat is an Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her research seeks to understand how social and environmental determinants of health contribute to poor health and health disparities. Specifically, her environmental health research has examined environmental injustice and health disparities caused by environmental factors. In terms of social factors, she has a large body of work around the health impacts of precarious employment and other forms of social inequity. She strives to engage with communities most impacted by injustice and disparities while also answering questions to guide policy and action.
Dr. Amy Hagopian is professor emeritus in public health at the University of Washington. She conducts academic work on how the maldistribution of power and wealth undermines health. She taught a class on war and health for 9 years at UW, and led a team to measure war-related mortality in Iraq in 2011. She’s currently involved in research projects to improve methods to count the number of people living homeless, deprived of the human right to housing. She taught a class on homelessness, with an emphasis on causes and consequences of living unsheltered. She serves as chair of the editorial board of the American Journal of Public Health and received the APHA’s Sidel-Levy award for Peace in 2018. She is incoming chair of APHA’s International Health Section, active in APHA’s Peace Caucus, Caucus on Homelessness, and a leader in the Global Alliance on War, Conflict and Health.