I was speaking to a friend and mentee yesterday who is currently in the midst of a covid outbreak in a low-middle income country with an arguably fragile-at-best healthcare infrastructure, high levels of poverty and rurality, low levels of literacy, and significant dependence on colonial structures. He and I spoke, both of us from our … Continue reading On Aid, Fatigue, and Building Broken Wells →

I was recently privileged to have had a series of email exchanges with Physician-Anthropologist Eugene T. Richardson, an associate professor of global health and social medicine at Harvard. I had come across one of his lectures online and was captured by the clarity and sense with which he approached as complex a subject  as the … Continue reading On Coloniality during a Pandemic; adding insult to injury →