Tamara Falicov, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor
The University of Kansas
Tamara Falicov is Associate Dean for Research at the University of Kansas-Lawrence. Together the HHARC organized programming around health humanities community engaged research, a newsletter with research and training opportunities and information sessions. I am a co-PI on a research project to create a trilingual (Me’phaa) “talking” digital dictionary co-created with the Me’phaa speaking community. This project exemplifies working collaboratively with a marginalized community who speak an endangered language. This project dovetails with my aim to help provide a space for researchers to work with local community members using an equity lens, in a horizontal form of partnership and communication.

Presenting at the Nexus Summit:

Achieving health equity demands a fundamental reexamination of the human experience. The humanities and arts offer a useful lens that reveals and informs blind spots in our understanding of health and health equity across diverse populations. The Health Humanities and Arts Research Collaborative (HHARC) at The University of Kansas (KU) is an innovative model connecting educational institutions with practice settings in co-created academic-community partnerships. Launched in the midst of the pandemic, HHARC creates connections and leverages affinities within health, wellness, and health equity…