Course description
This programme enables students to analyse and evaluate the globalisation of public health policy and its impact on societal and cultural health policy and practice. It will provide students, through an anthropological perspective, with an understanding of the challenges of implementing policy effectively in local contexts and the tensions globalisation may bring in different cultural situations. It examines how the impact of global health practices be studied from a cross-cultural point of view, analyses health interventions in the context of complex social, political, and religious forces, and assesses the impact of global health practices on popular understandings of health and medicine.
Anthropologists working in applied contexts aim to translate public health knowledge and policy into effective action. simultaneously, many anthropologists reflect critically on how governmental health initiatives are ever more central to everyday life. This programme introduces students to the key issues in medical anthropology, engaging with the field's distinctive perspective on global health.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this programme you will be able to understand, critically appraise and apply key concepts and theories within anthropology, policy studies, international political economy and public health science, with specific reference to the globalisation of health and health policy, public health policy norms, concepts of anthropological and epidemiological research methods, and processes and institutions of public policy-making.
You will also develop the skills to:
* apply social-science perspectives to public health questions;
* assess the changing context of public health policy formulation;
* analyse diverse source materials and apply to public health questions; evaluate public health and health services policies from an anthropological perspective; articulate your own conception of core challenges confronting public health;
* engage in public health advocacy;
* work across disciplinary boundaries.
How You Will Be Taught
Teaching is by lectures, seminars, group work and guided independent study. Students will be assessed through coursework, written examination and dissertation. Each student is allocated a member of academic staff to provide supervision through all stages in the development of the dissertation
