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Featured Faculty

Students are taught by leaders from the humanities, social sciences, public health, and medicine. Some of our featured faculty include: 

Mary Flanagan, PhD, the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College, is a leading innovator, artist, educator and designer, whose works have included everything from game-inspired art, to commercial games that shift people’s thinking about biases and stereotypes.

Glyn Elwyn, MD, PhD, MSc, is the director of The Dartmouth Institute’s Patient Engagement program. He has assembled an international interdisciplinary team, The Preference Laboratory, examining the implementation of shared decision making into clinical settings, using innovative tools and measures, such as CollaboRATE, a patient experience measure of shared decision making and Observer OPTION, for use on recorded data.

Anna Adachi-Mejia, PhD is the director of the Health Promotion Research Center at Dartmouth (HPRCD) and an Associate Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine. Her research areas of expertise include the promotion of physical activity, healthy eating, and healthy sleep habits; and obesity and tobacco prevention.

Vaughn A. Brooker, PhD is an assistant professor of religion and African and African American studies. His focus is the historical study of twentieth-century African American religions, including religion and popular music, "race histories," gender and religious leadership, visual and material culture, African American metaphysical religions, practices of memorialization and mourning, and African American religious internationalism.