Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science: Thurka Sangaramoorthy, LANDSCAPES OF CARE
The Vital Perspectives on Healthcare and Science series engages with some of the most pressing public health issues of our time, in a regular public forum catalyzed by a book. And it’s back for the new acadmic year!
This first event will feature Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy, author of Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America, with Dr. Jeremy Greene joining in conversation.
This insightful work on rural health in the United States examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbean, navigate the health care system in the United States.
Her extensive ethnographic and policy research shows the personal stories behind health inequity data and helps to give readers a human entry point into the enormous challenges of immigration and rural health.
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Dr. Thurka Sangaramoorthy is a cultural and medical anthropologist and global health expert with 23 years of experience conducting community-engaged ethnographic research, including rapid assessments, among vulnerable populations in the United States, Africa, and Latin America/Caribbean. Her work is broadly concerned with power and subjectivity in global economies of care. She has worked at this intersection on diverse topics, including global health and migration, infectious disease outbreaks, and environmental health disparities.
She is the author of numerous publications including three books: Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), Rapid Ethnographic Assessments: A Practical Approach and Toolkit for Collaborative Community Research (with Karen Kroeger, Routledge, 2020) and Treating AIDS: Politics of Difference, Paradox of Prevention (Rutgers, 2014), and has one book in press based on her award-winning work: She’s Positive: The Extraordinary Lives of Black Women Living with HIV (Aevo, 2023). Her writing also has been featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, Newsweek, and The Washington Post.
Dr. Sangaramoorthy is Co-Chair of the American Anthropological Association’s Members Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee and a Board member of the Society for Medical Anthropology. She serves as Associate Editor of Public Health Reports, Editorial Board Member of American Anthropologist and Social Science & Medicine, and the inaugural Social, Behavioral, and Qualitative Research Section Editor for PLOS Global Public Health.
She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, and San Francisco, her M.P.H. from Columbia University, and her postdoctoral training in infectious diseases at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Dr. Sangaramoorthy is Affiliate Professor of Social Anthropology at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia. Currently, through June 2024, she serves as part of the Horn of Africa Regional Refugee Team for the US Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration at the US Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where she coordinates the Sudan and South Sudan portfolios.
Dr. Jeremy Greene is broadly interested in the history of disease, and his research explores the ways in which medical technologies come to influence our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal. His broader research interests focus on the history of disease, medical technology, the history of global health, and the relationship between medicine and the marketplace. Dr. Greene received an MD and PhD in the history of science from Harvard in 2005, completed a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham & Women’s Hospital in 2008, and is board certified in Internal Medicine and a member of the American College of Physicians. In addition to his appointment at the Institute for the History of Medicine, he practices internal medicine at the East Baltimore Medical Center, a community health center affiliated with Johns Hopkins.
