Monday, November 13, 2006
4:30 p.m.
Carson L02
"Sexuality, Gender Relations and HIV Transmission in
Cuba"
Speaker: Dr. Arachu Castro
Ph.D., MPH Assistant Professor of Social Medicine, Department
of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School Director, Institute for Health and
Social Justice, Partners in Health
Sponsored by: The Dickey Center for International
Understanding, Department of History, Latin American, Latino and Caribbean
Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Biography: Dr. Castro received her Ph.D. in Ethnology and Social
Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris,
her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Barcelona, her Masters in Public
Health from Harvard School of Public Health, and a professional degree in
Nutrition from the Polytechnic Institute of Barcelona.
Dr. Castro teaches social medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she serves
as Academic Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change,
and at Harvard College, and has previously taught in Spain, Argentina, France,
Mexico and Cuba. Dr. Castro has been actively involved in designing several
international health policy documents on tuberculosis, AIDS and access to
health care in conjunction with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Pan
American Health Organization.
She is member of the Steering Committee on Social, Economic, and Behavioral
Research at the UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical
Diseases (TDR), of the WHO Team on Development of Appropriate Research
Strategies for Scale Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Resource-Constrained
Settings (Department of HIV/AIDS and TDR), of the Scientific Working Group on
Tuberculosis (TDR), of Public Health Watch (Open Society Institute), and is
advisor to the Pan American Health Organization in Venezuela. Dr. Castro is the
Secretary-Treasurer of the Society for Medical Anthropology, where she chaired
the Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus from 1998 to 2002.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2006
4:30 p.m.
13 Carpenter Hall
"Looking for Lost Girls: Sudanese Narratives of Gender,
Displacement and Home."
Speaker: Lynette Jackson
Ph.D. , Associate Professor African American Studies and Gender and Women's
Studies; Director of Undergraduate Studies, African American Studies
Department, University of Illinois at Chicago;
Author of: Surfacing Up: Psychiatry and Social Order in Colonial Zimbabwe,
1908-1968 (Cornell University Press, 2005).
This lecture is sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program's Women
and Migration Series with generous support from the The Dickey Center for
International Understanding and the Department of History.
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