PhD, Anthropology, Stanford University
MHS, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
BA, Human Biology, Stanford University

Anna West is a political and medical anthropologist whose work focuses on global health, local politics, and the contours of postcolonial citizenship in southern Africa. Her dissertation research in Malawi combined ethnographic and archival work to locate contemporary rural health promotion paradigms in sedimented landscapes of intervention dating to the colonial period. Her courses encourage students to engage critically with the structural determinants of health inequities, the historicity of intervention, and the social construction of knowledge in medicine and public health.

Courses taught 

HLTH H115.  Introduction to Health Studies
HLTH H305.  The Logic and Politics of Global Health
HLTH H314.  Critical Data Literacy for Global Health
HLTH H316.  Making and Mistaking Race in American Medicine
HLTH H398.  Senior Seminar in Health Studies
   > Cancer (2018)    >  Migration and Health (2019, 2020)    > Building Health Justice and Health Literacy (2021)
HLTH H498.  Senior Thesis Seminar: Supervised Research and Writing