Health Storytelling with Jennie Erin Smith

Описание: 𝐀 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐇𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐠 with world-renowned journalist and CSHH Senior Fellow in Health Narrative and Communication, Maryn McKenna. It all begins, 𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡, 𝟔 – 𝟕𝐩𝐦. ✍️ with guest Jennie Erin Smith, author of THE VALLEY OF FORGETTING: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure.

For most of the last decade, Jennie Erin Smith, an award-winning journalist, has been deeply immersed in reporting this story, a riveting account of a community from the remote mountains of Colombia whose rare and fatal genetic mutation is unlocking the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease.

Jennie Erin Smith is the author of Stolen World. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times and has written for The Wall Street Journal, The Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, and others. She is a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award; the Waldo Proffitt Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism in Florida; and two first-place awards from the Society for Features Journalism. She lives in Florida and Colombia.

Here is the full lineup of guests for the Fall 2025 Health Storytelling LIVE Author Q&A series. Be sure to calendar them. ✍️ This semester Maryn will talk to three amazing authors including...

Jennie Erin Smith, author of THE VALLEY OF FORGETTING: Alzheimer's Families and the Search for a Cure.
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟕, 𝟔 – 𝟕𝐩𝐦. ✍️

𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐕𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐧, author of THE STRONGER SEX: What Science Tells Us about the Power of the Female Body.
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐎𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟐, 𝟔 – 𝟕𝐩𝐦 ✍️

And Maryn will close out the season with...

𝐄𝐫𝐚𝐦 𝐀𝐥𝐚𝐦, PhD., author of THE CARE OF FOREIGNERS: How Immigrant Physicians Changed US Healthcare.
𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟗, 𝟔 – 𝟕𝐩𝐦 ✍️

A special thank you to the Georgia Center for the Book, the Emory University Center for Public Scholarship and Engagement, and 𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐀𝐒 𝐅𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 for being the official co-sponsors of the Fall 2025 Living Health: Author Q&A Series.

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