Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork as an anthropologist | CARe - "13th webinar of the CARe project"

Format: Webinar, in English

Title: Medical Anthropology: Fieldwork as an anthropologist

Organizer: CARe project, evidence-based Public Health (ZIG2), Robert Koch Institute, Berlin 

Location: Online via WebEx Webinar

Speaker: Mustafa Abdalla

Content: Mustafa Abdalla is a Medical Anthropologist working at the Robert Koch Institute with research experience in Egypt, Mali and the Maldives. He received his Master’s degree in Anthropology from the American University in Cairo, Egypt and his PhD from the Free University Berlin, Germany

This webinar provides a glimpse into the field of anthropology, its subfield medical anthropology and their role in providing an understanding to health and illness through cultural and social lens. It will delve into qualitative methods, especially ethnography and interviews and how they provide insights into health behaviors and practices. Finally, it will discuss how by integrating anthropological perspectives and participatory approaches, public health interventions become more culturally informed, sensitive and more effective.

The webinar is part of the 2.5-year online and offline training on applied public health research methods in the CARe ("Capacity Building in Applied Public Health Research in GHPP partner countries") project. CARe is part of the Global Health Protection Program (GHPP) and is implemented by the Department of Evidence-Based Public Health (ZIG2) of the Center for International Health Protection (ZIG) at the Robert Koch Institute. Information on the CARe project can be found here: https://www.rki.de/EN/Content/Institute/International/GHPP/projects/care.html

Target group: Researchers, Public Health workers, students with interest in Global Health