Healthy Human Societies SIG – Easter 2026
All Clare Hall members are warmly welcome to attend the meetings of the new Healthy Human Societies SIG this Easter term. The full schedule can be found below.
This SIG will be focused on building healthy human societies – whether through healthcare, environmental conservation, urban planning and architecture, infrastructure, or economics. It can be a safe space at our college to discuss topics related to population health and global risks, and to develop skills in design thinking and system dynamics.
Starting in the middle of May, we will meet on Tuesdays at 5pm, then go to supper together at 6pm. After supper, participants are encouraged to stay for the college colloquium (or, exceptionally, on 19th May – for this term’s 3-slide talks).
For any questions, please contact the SIG leads Dr Nikolai Kazantsev (nk622@cam.ac.uk), Dr Elizabeth Garnsey (ewg11@cam.ac.uk), or Anjali Sergeant (aks203@cam.ac.uk).
Easter schedule:
19 May (King Room): Anjali Sergeant BASc MD (Clare Hall) – Scanning Without Symptoms: Understanding the ‘Preventive’ Direct-to-Consumer Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Market in the UK Healthscape
26 May (Doshisha Room): Dr Charlotte Hammer (Center for Existential Risk Management) – Where are we with pandemic preparedness in an increasingly complex world?
2 June (King Room): Emma Kuehnelt (Clare Hall): “Working together to feed the world” – the World Poultry Science Association (WPSA) and the politics of productive hens (1921-1939)
9 June (Meeting Room): Professor Theresa M Marteau DBE FMedSci (Research Professor Emerita of Behavioural Science, Honorary Fellow at Christ’s College, Cambridge): On risks in food systems (tentative)
16 June (Meeting Room): Sahana Narayan (St Cross College, Oxford) – The RIPPLE Effect: Using A Sociotechnical Framework to Characterize Uncertainty, Pressure, and Clinical Escalation in Maternal-Fetal Medicine
