What cumulative impacts needs is a simple solution to a complex problem, or at least a simplified approach if solution is a too ambitious goal. A solution implies that they would cease to exist, yet cumulative impacts are a part of everyone’s everyday lives. The question remains whether a feasible, standardized approach can be…
In this talk, Dr. Munyikwa, an anthropologist and practicing clinician, will present cases that help understand how social differences and their structural consequences permeate the clinical space in ways which exceed our existing language to describe them.
Through the lens of power, policy, and practice, the talk will examine public health’s charge to protect health, advance well-being, and treat the systems that determine population-level outcomes. We will examine the determinants of health and forces that lead to health inequalities.
A talk featuring author, Josh Cowen about his new book, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Voucher", a deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.
Valerie Mueller received her Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Maryland. She is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University (ASU).
ERS Seminars are held on the Wednesdays noted from noon-1pm in 165 Wallace Hall. Lunch is provided. Sponsorship of an event does not constitute institutional endorsement of external speakers or views presented.
