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Open call: artist in residence

An open call for eight artists to join research teams across eight global locations to explore plastic, healthcare and the possibilities of a more circular future.

Creative works

Art-science collaboration: visualising biomedical waste at Fann Hospital

Explore the creation of a 110-meter mural at Fann Hospital, Dakar, a collaborative initiative between the AtSU project, ENAMC students, and local artists. This report details how participatory art was used to translate research on biomedical waste into a powerful public awareness tool, fostering dialogue on health and environmental sustainability.
5 Jun 2026 · 12:00pm

Environmental Justice and the Historian

Historians of health and medicine have something unique to offer and to learn from close engagement with environmental justice: as a historical moment, as a mode of historical analysis, and as a mode of engaged history.

14 Jul 2026 · 8:00am

Plastic Amnesias at HSS 2026: forgotten histories of plastics and health

At HSS 2026, two linked Plastic Amnesias panels explored how evidence of plastic harms, reusable technologies and material alternatives has been repeatedly obscured or forgotten across medicine and global health.
Presentations

Reframing plastic as a health emergency

Cat Acheson and Rob Ralston examined how plastics are being reframed as a human-health emergency within negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty.
31 Mar 2026 · 11:00am

CRCF convenes first National Advisory Committee meeting in Senegal

Researchers and stakeholders gathered for CRCF’s first National Advisory Committee meeting to review early findings on single-use medical plastics, biomedical waste management, and future directions for research in Senegal.
Presentations

The risks of single-use medical plastics on human and environmental health at the EDCMA SoMA 2026

Millie Marriott Webb presented research on the human and environmental impacts of single-use medical plastics at the student-led SoMA 2026 Medical Anthropology and the Technocene conference.
Presentations

Rethinking the role of single-use plastics in healthcare at the Institute for Health and Society seminar series

Jeremy Greene presented ‘After the Single Use: Rethinking the Role of Single-Use Plastics in Healthcare’ as part of the Rutgers IFH 2026 seminar series.
Presentations

Single-use plastics in forensic medicine: exploratory study at Telangana State Annual Forensic Medicine Conference 2026

After the Single Use researcher Akhilesh Bonthu presented new research on the use of single-use plastics in forensic autopsy settings at the Telangana State Annual Forensic Medicine Conference 2026.

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