The Graphic Medicine International Collective (GMIC) is thrilled to announce the addition of two new members to its board:
Soha Bayoumi, PhD, is a political theorist and historian whose work examines the intersection of health and social justice and the medicine-politics nexus, with a regional focus on the Middle East and a particular interest in postcolonial and gender studies. Her research and teaching focus on medicine and authoritarianism; gendered aspects of healthcare; and the visual cultures of medicine, science, and technology (especially in comics and cinema). She is a Teaching Professor in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities program at the Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and an affiliate faculty member of the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) and associate editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS).
Jen Leach (a.k.a furtivedoodles) is a New York–based artist and writer working at the intersection of healthcare, narrative, and design. By day, she drives student wellbeing communications and initiatives at New York University, where she promotes health literacy and population health. Early in her career, she hid her (bipolar) diagnosis and her creative aspirations, doodling “furtively” in protest. While earning her MS in Narrative Medicine at Columbia, she discovered Graphic Medicine, and presenting at the Brighton conference marked her “coming out” as an artist and mental health advocate. Jen calls the healing power of making things—like plush pills—“crafty medicine,” and her projects include Side Defects, No Agony for Da-Feet, Boobless, and Placebo Plushies.
GMIC looks forward to working with Soha and Jen to advance our mission of promoting the work and community of Graphic Medicine.
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