Tsitsi Masvawure, assistant professor of anthropology and global health in the Department of Integrative and Global Studies, was a guest on the podcast Challenge. Change. The podcast is produced by Clark University. 

In the episode “Taking the Temperature of Global Health,” Masvawure was joined by Ellen Foley, a medical anthropologist and professor in the Department of Sustainability and Social Justice at Clark University. 

Masvawure, who is a director of the Master of Science in Global Health program and the minor in global public health at WPI, discusses why she believes there is a need to clarify and re-frame what global health is if its aspirations for more equitable collaborations are to be realized. 

Masvawure and Foley co-edited The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Global Health, published earlier this year. In the book, Masvawure authored a chapter that makes the case for the United States to be seen not just as a place of global health expertise, but also as a space that could itself benefit from global health intervention.  

Listen to the podcast episode here. 

You can find other episodes of the Challenge. Change. podcast here. 

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Tsitsi Masvawure
Tsitsi Masvawure
Assistant Professor,
Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS
I am a medical anthropologist, global health researcher and feminist scholar, whose research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and health. I am primarily interested in the HIV pandemic and have conducted research on HIV prevention and treatment in various countries in Africa [...]
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