Dal, U of King’s College create Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity

Dalhousie University and the University of King’s College have announced a new joint chair: the Roper-Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity. This research chair was created thanks to $3.5M in combined donations from AMS Healthcare and the J & W Murphy Foundation. The chair will focus on health equity using a critical historical perspective and be appointed to Dal’s Department of History, cross-appointed to Dal’s Faculty of Medicine, and will teach in the U of King’s College History of Science and Technology Honours Program. “The history of healthcare documents our past to see where we have stumbled before, especially in the areas of health equity,” said King’s President William Lahey.