Rebecca Garden, PhD, is Associate Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Executive Director for the Consortium for Culture and Medicine, an education and research collaborative. Her research brings health humanities and disability studies perspectives to bear on public health, healthcare practice, and pedagogy on topics involving disability and Deaf cultures, aging and dementia, and New American/refugee literature and health. She teaches public health and medical students as well as humanities and social science students.