Aug 29 2024 43 mins 1
Dr Rachel Hall-Clifford is a medical anthropologist and a global health expert who has done extensive field work to improve systemic health inequities around the world. When she developed Long Covid after an infection in 2022, those systemic failures became a personal issue.
Dr Hall-Clifford wrote a powerful article on her experience with Long Covid and the role wealthy countries play in the global treatment of this disease. In our conversation, she speaks about her personal struggles and the universal need for Long Covid treatment.
"Long Covid Feels Like a Gun to My Head"
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/18/long-covid-infectious-disease-expert-personal-story-life-with-no-cure/
"Underbelly: Childhood Diarrhea and the Hidden Local Realities of Global Health"
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547765/underbelly/
safe+natal
www.safenatal.org
Dr Hall-Clifford's TedX Talk on Co-Design in global public health: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvRAdsQ1_hA
Rachel Hall-Clifford (PhD, MPH, MSc) is Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Human Health and the Department of Sociology at Emory University. She is a medical anthropologist who applies social science approaches to global health research and implementation. Her research areas include accessible health care for marginalized populations, health systems strengthening in post-genocide contexts, and global health fieldwork ethics. She is author of the new book, Underbelly, focusing on the multivalent power asymmetries in global health. Rachel is also Co-Founder of safe+natal, a perinatal monitoring and care toolkit developed with Guatemalan midwives. Global health was brought home in a new way for Rachel since the covid infection that led to long covid in 2022.
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