Resources

Check out the Announce Podcast

Developed by your very own SEMS members. Listen to topics ranging from immigration, housing, firearm violence, and so much more!

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Seminal Concepts in Social Medicine

Inventing Social Emergency Medicine - conference proceedings
Social determinants of health inequalities (PDF)
Structural violence and clinical medicine (PDF)
Narrative medicine (PDF)
Addressing SDH: a cliff analogy
Allegories on race and racism (Video)

Need assistance connecting your patients to social services?
Aunt Bertha’s network allows users to type in their zip code to identify verified social services in their area.

Teaching Materials

NEJM Case Studies in Social Medicine
Social Medicine Consortium teaching toolkit (PDF)
International and Domestic Health Equity and Leadership

Organizations

Levitt Center
Social Medicine Consortium

Fellowships

CHA/ HMS Emergency Medicine Health Equity, Policy, and Leadership Fellowship
UCLA Health Equity Fellowship
University of Iowa Social Emergency Medicine Fellowship

Funding & Conferences

Robert Wood Johnson
Native American and Rural EM Conference

Resources in Key Areas of Interest

Community Referrals

United Way 211 Helpline - free, confidential referral and information helpline and website that connects people of all ages and all communities to the essential health and human services they need, 24 hours a day, seven days a week

Gun Violence Prevention

Affirm
Healing systemic and interpersonal violence

Homelessness and Housing

Urban Institute: Emerging Strategies for Integrating Health and Housing
Podcast on Homeless Patients and COVID-19

Human Trafficking

HEAL Trafficking

Immigrant Health

National Immigration Law Center Health Care Toolkit
Health and Law Immigration Solidarity Network Immigration Modules
Opioid Use Disorder

Provider Bias

Project implicit- Implicit bias test

SDH Screening in the ED

Siren social determinants screening tools