The Public Health Futures Project
re-telling stories, reimagining valuesThis project is an effort to rethink the future of health equity while exploring the needs and perspectives of philanthropists, funding agencies, partners, and other stakeholders.
The project is a public-facing, engaged ethnographic project that puts anthropology into practice, led by Dr. Steven P. Black. Dr. Black is a linguistic and medical anthropologist who has spent nearly twenty years researching global health in South Africa, Costa Rica, and the United States, resulting in numerous articles, book chapters, and two books.
This project has been supported by the Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University and the C. Ackerman Professorship in Anthropology.
About Us:
The Public Health Futures Project is led by Dr. Steven P. Black, professor of anthropology at Georgia State University. Since 2016, eight graduate and undergraduate student researchers have worked on this and related mentorship-driven projects in various capacities, including:
Gabriela Alvarado, Ally Chase, Jenna Eason, Kristina Ellis, Kathryn Leek, Scarlet Mayoralgo, Anna Marissa Rodriguez, and Savannah Setter