The Health Humanities Hub (H3) was created in 2024 by the College of Humanities in collaboration with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.
We recognize
that health and wellbeing (as well as illness and mortality) span the body, mind, and spirit and that they are fundamental to the human experience across cultures, languages, and geography.
We connect
people, ideas, and practices from the humanities and social sciences, the health and biological sciences, the arts, healthcare and other applied fields, and the broader community to address challenges like health equity, loneliness and disconnection, social and environmental drivers of health, and the trials of maintaining wellbeing in the modern world.
We are transdisciplinary
in nature and offer a space (physical and intellectual) where scholars, researchers, educators, practitioners and students from all disciplines and backgrounds can work together on projects to foster human flourishing.
We embrace
deeply human solutions to these complex and often technical problems, using tools like empathy, careful observation, cultural humility, perspective-broadening, curiosity, creativity, adaptability, and collaboration.
Our Foundation
The College of Humanities has a strong foundation in health humanities teaching and scholarship. Our efforts to weave these threads together date back many years and include:
- More than 35 courses offered across the college
- Degree programs like our BS in Religious Studies for Health Professionals and BA in Public and Applied Humanities with emphases in Medicine or Public Health
- Non-academic units like the National Center for Interpretation (a national leader in medical interpretation and translation), the Center for Buddhist Studies (with expertise in integrative health practices from many cultures), and the Center for Digital Humanities (with cutting-edge projects focused on the future of healthcare)
Our Home
H3 is located on the third floor of the new Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the College of Medicine—Tucson. Here we share space and find alignment with our colleagues in medicine who focus on connections between the mind, body, and spirit in order to advance whole-person health. The seven pillars of Integrative Medicine—sleep, nutrition, movement, spirituality, resiliency, environment, and relationships—underscore the deep connections between medicine and the overall human experience.
Is your group interested in visiting our beautiful home, which embodies the science and design principles of a healthy workspace? Contact Christine Hoekenga at bchoekenga@arizona.edu.
If you have a health humanities idea or a need (or even an inkling you can’t quite articulate yet), please reach out to us.
Complex problems need human-centered solutions. The Health Humanities Hub can help. Our approach brings the core values, skills and expertise of humanistic inquiry to the table. Our services include: research and synthesis, needs assessment, resource matching, idea development, opportunity scoping, project management, program design and development, workshops and trainings tailored to your audience’s needs, outreach strategy, collaboration and interdisciplinary group facilitation, human-centering, and health-centering.