BHLP News & Press

Boston Globe: Doctors learn of religious remedies
The Boston Healing Landscape Project provides resources about minority and immigrant religious and cultural traditions in order to educate the local medical community on how alternate beliefs might affect treatment strategies.


Health Care Issues: Cultural, Religious, and Medical Diversity – BHLP Internship Program
The Boston Healing Landscape Project Internship Program offers opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to study the cultural, religious, and medical diversity of Boston.


Plants from many healing landscapes: gathering information and teaching clinicians about the cultural use of medicinal herbs
The increasingly diverse US population, the growing use of medicinal herbs, and the necessity for training in cultural competence have created a need for related educational opportunities for health care professionals. To address these concerns, the Boston Healing Landscape Project (BHLP), the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and the Treadwell Library of the Massachusetts General Hospital, offered a postgraduate education program, “Cultural Use of Herbs in Latino and Haitian Communities—Herbal Tour.”


Research at Boston University 2006: Reaching Out to the Community and the World
BHLP training programs and resources: encouraging doctors to think about different culturally and religiously defined approaches to healing, and clarifying anthropological issues that are part of clinical practice.


Ford Foundation: Listening to Obatalá by Christopher Reardon
Traditional healers in Boston have been finding acceptance where they least expected it: among doctors and scholars at one of the city's finest teaching hospitals.


BHLP Article in the Boston University Bridge: "MED Program Trains Culturally Competent Physicians" by Tim Stoddard
The Bridge is BU's weekly community newspaper. The story is available on-line by clicking the above link or the BU Bridge icon.


Boston Globe's article on BHLP's Herbal Tour CME Class: "Crossing the border" by Monica Rhor, Globe Staff
The article outlines the success of the BHLP-affiliated "Cultural Uses of Herbs in Latino and HatianCommunities" CME class. Additional information on the course is available here.