Grief, Loss, and Death: Integrating Clinical and Population Health Perspectives

Harvard FAS

Undergraduate and graduate students have few academic opportunities to engage with the profound themes of grief, loss, and death, even in an era of pandemics, climate change, and widening health disparities. In this seminar-style course, we apply a population mental health perspective that integrates work across a range of disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, neurobiology, epidemiology, anthropology, sociology, and critical race theory. From this interdisciplinary vantage point, we…