Winter 2016 Newsletter

| February 2, 2016

Frances Barg, PhD, MEd, Internal Advisory Board; Philadelphia Health Leadership Institute
Your doctorate is in medical anthropology. How is this orientation to public health different than that of a MD or MPH?
As a medical anthropologist, I study how the political, social, and environmental context and culture affect how and why people get sick...and how the distribution of resources are affected. It’s good preparation for public health research. The emphasis on culture and also the theory and methods particular to medical anthropology are appropriate