Role of colonialism in weakening public health systems

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Assignment:

The essay is your opportunity to synthesize your understanding of how social and political dynamics affect infectious disease and how cultural groups experience infectious disease.

In the essay, students should identify what they believe are the most salient messages and arguments presented by the authors of the readings/videos, and develop a cogent thesis and argument. Strong essays will compare, contrast, and analyze multiple readings/videos and concepts, and provide personal reflections related to the arguments presented in the course materials.

How are neoliberalism and colonialism discussed or implicated in the readings/videos?
What is the role of global environmental degradation in the spread of infectious diseases such as Ebola and Covid-19?
What is the role of colonialism in weakening public health systems and exacerbating social inequalities, leading to limited access to vaccine?
Students should also reflect on their own experience with infectious disease: do your observations from your own life align with the findings from the readings?

Please read & Watch

Armelagos 1998
Wallace et al. 2014
Watch COVID-19 and the environment
Shamasunder et. al. 2020
Watch Cuba's Covid Success Story

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