As a medical anthropologist, Professor Lenore Manderson's impactful research and analysis around the social determinants of health and disease helps us make sense of the world we're living in and, could possibly bring us a little bit closer to a solution. Much of our work focuses on how health problems arise from larger social issues, which must also be addressed. When taking into account the long history of inequalities in black communities, the findings reaffirm what medical anthropologists' studies have shown about racial fault lines in relation to access to healthcare — an inequality that predates the pandemic. The cryptocurrency exchange is a huge SA success story and they'll continue to invest heavily 'at home' says CEO Marcus Swanepoel. Whether it is cancer, psychiatric disease, drug addiction, injury and disability, racialized health disparities, genetic disorders or the leading cause of premature death, tobacco, we tackle issues of great importance for people the world over. There’ll be many opportunities for frontier investors in the coming years, says Absa's Somaya Joshua. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies. In the Wits Impacts For Good podcast series, Eusebius McKaiser engages in conversation with Wits Originators, forward-thinking researchers from Wits University, interrogating problems and seeking robust and impactful solutions, backed by leading research. To facilitate this work, we also collaborate with Stanford’s Center for Comparative Studies on Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE), the Center for International Studies (FSI), the Department of Medicine, the Department of Psychology, and the program on Science and Technology Studies (STS). The rand was just recently trading at a six-month high. The discipline draws upon the four fields of anthropology to analyse and compare the … My Octopus Teacher connecting 'non-ocean' people to nature says Maryke Musson (CEO, Two Oceans Aquarium Education Foundation). Arabile Gumede interviews Philippa Rodseth from industry body, the Manufacturing Circle. It seeks to understand human interactions in all kinds of social groupings, including families, networks, communities, institutions, organisations, groups, societies and nations. The Signcast of a discussion with Professor Claudine Storbeck features her translation of the conversation into sign language. Arabile Gumede interviews Bianca Botes (Peregrine Treasury Solutions). Lochlann Jain: Professor Jain's research is primarily concerned with the ways in which stories get told about injuries, how they are thought to be caused, and how that matters.
Musa Manzi: The Wits researcher saving lives in the depths of SA’s mines, Helen Rees: The Wits researcher championing SA’s fight against Covid-19, Why do our babies die? Your financial future – even if you have to start over – could be brighter than it would’ve been without the pandemic. 'Smaller businesses have largely been ignored'. Medical anthropology is a good example of how anthropologists have been able to relate the natural sciences to the humanities. African migrants are facing Covid-19 without government support. Arabile Gumede interviews Ukheshe co-founder, Clayton Hayward. Medical anthropology is the study of how health and illness are shaped, experienced, and understood in light of global, historical, and political forces. To put the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on black people in context: Findings from earlier data of the Covid-19 crisis (segmented into race categories) revealed that black people are more than four times more likely to die from Covid-19 than white people, on a global scale. The sector is at a tipping point. Working in France, West Africa and the United States, she details the legacy effects of postcolonial, post-Reconstruction, and Progressive Era science policies on present-day health outcomes. It is one of the most exciting subfields of anthropology and has increasingly clear relevance for students and professionals interested in the complexity of disease states, diagnostic categories, and what comes to count as Medical anthropology is a field of anthropology focused on the relationship between health, illness, and culture. Matthew Kohrman: Professor Kohrman’s work explores the ways health, culture, and politics are interrelated.