The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA) has announced the election of Clara Han as its new President. She will assume her position in November of this year.

The Society for Medical Anthropology (SMA), formed in 1967 and incorporated into the American Anthropological Association (AAA) in 1971, is dedicated to the profession and practice of medical anthropology, which uses concepts and methods from anthropology to produce new understandings of health, disease, illness, treatment, and care. Open for membership worldwide, the SMA brings together medical anthropology graduate students, practicing anthropologists, scholars, and scholar activists.

Clara Han is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University. She received a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and an MD from Harvard Medical School in 2007. She received a BA in Molecular Biology and International Affairs from Princeton University in 1997.