Join the 2025–26 CHASM & Ebling Book Club!
CHASM and Ebling Library are thrilled to launch a new book club for the 2025–26 academic year, open to all faculty, staff, and students in the School of Medicine and Public Health. This monthly club invites our community to read, reflect, and discuss a thoughtfully curated selection of books, each chosen to spark conversation around the human experience of health, healing, and belonging.
Our reading list draws from powerful voices across America—urban and rural, historical and contemporary—offering narratives that explore empathy, identity, justice, trauma, resilience, and the systems that shape our well-being. These stories invite us to step beyond the clinic and into the lived experiences that shape how we care and connect, cultivating skills as essential as any clinical tool.
Join us for as many or as few sessions as you’d like—there’s no pressure to attend every month. A limited number
of books are available at no cost for SMPH students, staff, and faculty. Discounted copies are also available at select book stores. If you’re able to donate your book back after reading, we welcome it—your generosity helps sustain the club for future participants.
Let’s read together, grow together, and make space for the stories that shape compassionate care.
