STUDY ABROAD FIELD SCHOOL

Communication, Culture, and Global Health Challenges: Lessons From Costa Rica
In collaboration with the Interamerican Center for Global Health, Dr. Black leads a field school in in ethnographic methods in medical and linguistic anthropology with a focus on global health and indignity in Costa Rica. This field school examines the internationally-celebrated Costa Rican health care system, focusing on some of the pressing grand challenges in the field of global health: achieving universal health care coverage, environmental degradation, migration, and demographic and epidemiological transitions. The program engages especially with the distinct issues and difficulties experienced by indigenous communities in the Brunca region of southern Costa Rica.
Students and faculty travel to Costa Rica, where they participate in visits to museums and cultural sites in and near the capital city of San José, engage in discussions with experts about their work in health care inside and outside indigenous communities, and visit indigenous territories, local clinics, and activist organizations with community leaders. Upon arrival in southern Costa Rica, students are based at the spectacular Las Cruces biological station. This is an ideal program for both undergraduates and graduate students who are interested in medicine, public health, and global health.
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The Department of Anthropology
Office Hours:
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Department Specialist
Aikaterini Grigoriadou
[email protected]
Department Chair
Dr. Jennifer Patico
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Dr. Faidra Papavasiliou
Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Bethany Turner-Livermore