Global Health Book Club
Join globally-minded faculty, staff, and students and engage in global health thought without getting on a plane. Participants will read at their own pace, have support from the Office of Global Health Initiatives, and be able to discuss the book with fellow readers at their choice of an in-person or virtual small group event.
Global Health Book Club will be reading Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Set in rural Appalachia, the novel touches on social determinants of health, including substance use disorder. There is an in-person discussion option on Tuesday, April 18, from 4:00-5:00 pm in Bradley Hall 207 and a virtual discussion option on Wednesday, April 19, from 12:00-1:00 pm via zoom. Sign up for the book club.
We wish to remember and honor those who inhabited this Commonwealth before the arrival of the Europeans. Briefly occupying these lands were the Osage, Wyndott tribe, and Miami peoples. The Adena and Hopewell peoples, who are recognized by the naming of the time period in which they resided here, were here more permanently. Some of their mounds remain in the Lexington area, including at UK’s Adena Park.
In more recent years, the Cherokee occupied southeast Kentucky, the Yuchi southwest Kentucky, the Chickasaw extreme western Kentucky and the Shawnee central Kentucky including what is now the city of Lexington. The Shawnee left when colonization pushed through the Appalachian Mountains. Lower Shawnee Town ceremonial grounds are still visible in Greenup County.
We honor the first inhabitants who were here, respect their culture, and acknowledge the presence of their descendants who are here today in all walks of life including fellow pharmacists and healthcare professionals.