Covid-19 and Biosocial Medical Anthropology: Live Webinar

The crisis of the Covid-19 epidemic is without doubt a biosocial phenomenon. It demands a response that can take account and more productively align biological and social understandings of the pandemic in order to examine the dynamics of these complex interactions and to develop appropriate and efficacious interventions.

As the events of the past few months concerning the coronavirus have unfolded across the globe, those of us who teach on a newly established MSc in Biosocial Medical Anthropology have become acutely aware of the relevance of this unique programme of teaching and training at UCL. 

In this live webinar members of the Anthropology Department at UCL will reflection on the urgency, relevancy and the vital importance of biosocial medical anthropology in the time of the coronavirus epidemic. This webinar will include a series of short presentations and the chance to ask questions of the UCL biosocial medical anthropology community.

Speakers:

• Sahra Gibbon - Associate Professor in Medical Anthropology
• Aaron Parkhurst - Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
• Alex Tasker - Teaching Fellow in Human Ecology/Health and Environment
• Dalia Iskander - Lecturer in Medical Anthropology
• Carrie Ryan - Teaching Fellow in Biosocial Medical Anthropology
• Lewis Daly - Lecturer in Social Anthropology of the Environment
• Gul Deniz Salali - British Academy research fellow and lecturer in Evolutionary Anthropology and Evolutionary Medicine

For an introduction to the topics covered, you can read the following Medical Anthropology at UCL blog post.

Photo courtesy of Alex Tasker