Kelly Knight, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
School of Medicine

415-867-8405

Research Interests: The social construction and experience of addiction; Co-morbidity (HIV, substance abuse, mental illness), homelessness, and US urban health; Chronic non-cancer pain, clinical uncertainty, and scientific evidence; Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), bi-polar disorder, and the US welfare state; Gender, reproduction, motherhood and citizenship.

Awards

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  • Bridges Curriculum Teaching Award: Excellence in Innovative Teaching Modalities, UCSF School of Medicine, 2018
  • Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Award, British Sociological Association, 2016
  • Honorable Mention, Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology, 2016
  • Finalist (5/94), C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems, 2015
  • Chancellor’s Graduate Research Fellowship, UCSF, 2008

Education & Training

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  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2017
  • PhD Graduate Division (Medical Anthropology) University of California, San Francisco 2010
  • EdM Human Development and Psychology Harvard University 1993
  • BA Philosophy, Psychology, Theology Georgetown University 1991

Websites

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Grants and Projects

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Publications (80)

Top publication keywords:
Drug OverdoseSterilization, InvoluntaryOpioid-Related DisordersBuprenorphineSubstance-Related DisordersSubstance Abuse, IntravenousMethadoneOpiate Substitution TreatmentSafety-net ProvidersAnalgesics, OpioidChronic PainQualitative ResearchHousingQuarantineDrug Users

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