Stories by Emily Mendenhall

Emily Mendenhall is a medical anthropologist and professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She was recently awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Anthropology and Cultural Studies for her work on COVID.

Medicine

The ‘Brain Fog’ of Long COVID Is a Serious Medical Issue That Needs More Attention

Brain fog is such a nebulous term in long COVID that it delegitimizes efforts to get disability accommodations and medical leave

2 minutes ago — Emily Mendenhall and Kenton Kaplan | Opinion

Vaccines

We Need School-Age Vaccine Mandates to End the COVID Pandemic

Vaccine refusal by parents is not about a lack of education, but amassing social status

November 24, 2021 — Emily Mendenhall | Opinion

Public Health

How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic

Overlapping diseases and social conditions in the U.S. continue to dictate who is hurt most badly by the novel coronavirus

August 26, 2021 — Emily Mendenhall and Clarence C. Gravlee | Opinion