Myra Bluebond-Langner Oral History

Dr. Bluebond-Langner is currently the True Colours Chair in Palliative Care for Children and Young People where she works to develop and inform both policy and transdisciplinary best practices with the Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care. She is also the Board of Governors Professor of Anthropology and Childhood studies at Rutgers University. Dr. Bluebond-Langner has served in many leadership roles including the Director of the Rutgers University Center for Children and Childhood Studies and the editor of the first multidisciplinary book of childhood studies.

Dr. Bluebond-Langner’s has research interests are childhood, health and illness, and childhood socialization. She authored and co-authored several papers, chapters, and books, including The Private Worlds of Dying Children and In the Shadow of Illness. She also serves on many editorial boards such as the British Medical Journal: Supportive and Palliative Care and Child and Society.