Sam Southgate

As of 2024, Samuel Southgate is an emergency medicine physician in Minneapolis, MN. Sam received his PhD from the Department of Sociology at Yale. With interests lying at the intersection of medical sociology and social theory, his dissertation project examined illness narratives among voice hearers. At HNL, he worked closely with Nicholas A. Christakis as Course Associate and Head Teaching Fellow for the latter’s popular Yale undergraduate class, ‘Health of the Public: Medicine and Disease in Social Context’. Originally from the UK, Sam holds degrees in philosophy (University of York, UK), Middle Eastern studies (School of Oriental and African Studies, UK), political science (Yale), and sociology (Yale).