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FacultyAnna West

Anna West
Anna West
she/her
Assistant Professor and Director of Health Studies
370 Lancaster Ave.
(610) 896-1000
amwest [at] haverford.edu

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

Prof. West's work explores relationships between governance, health, citizenship, and belonging in southern Africa and the United States. 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 H219.  Breathing Together: Air, Capitalism, and Health
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
HLTH H498.  Senior Thesis Seminar: Supervised Research and Writing  

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