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Major Requirements

Medicine, Science, and the Humanities is JHU’s largest undergraduate humanities major and helps prepare students for a wide range of health professions.

Graduate Opportunities

Writing, research, and teaching fellowships, and other opportunities for graduate students interested in working in medicine, science, and the humanities.

Our Fellows

Read about the work our undergraduate and graduate research fellows are doing in the medical humanities, science, and technology studies.

News & Announcements

Summer Research Fellowships & School Opportunities

The Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities in partnership with the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine are accepting applications for undergraduate and graduate Summer Research Fellowships. This year we are also offering a unique collaborative Summer School in partnership with the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a leading Brazilian public health and scientific...

Senator Mikulski speaks at documentary screening

The JHU News-Letter highlighted Senator Barbara Mikulski’s discussion of women’s healthcare advocacy at the April screening of the mini documentary Women’s Health Advocacy: Saving Lives a Million at a Time. The event was hosted by the Program in Medicine, Science and the Humanities (MSH) and the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality...

MSH Research Fellowships: Call for Applications

The Program in Medicine, Science, and the Humanities in partnership with the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine are accepting applications for Summer Research Fellowships. The fellowships will fund independent research in the medical humanities and/or science & technology studies. Successful fellows will be required to present their research in a workshop the following fall semester and to...