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Health Disparities in the African Diaspora: A Laboratory for Social Engagement
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Health Disparities in the African Diaspora: A Laboratory for Social Engagement. Student research Symposium. Self-Diagnosis and Treatment: Exploration of Mental Health and Coping in the Sudanese Diaspora PRESENTED by Elizabeth nowack, Oluwadara Johnson...
David R. Williams
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David R. Williams is the Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health and Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology at Harvard University. His first 6 years as a faculty member were...
Kristina Tester Wins Hoopes Prize 2014
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Kristina Tester's '14 wins Hoopes Prize for her senior social engagement thesis "Increasing the Effectiveness of Health Care Delivery in Rural Areas: A Case Study in of Village Health Teams and Childhood Malnutrition in Rukungiri District, Uganda."
Samuel "Gus" Ruchman
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Gus Ruchman is a senior in Pforzheimer House from Cos Cob, CT. A lover of languages, he speaks conversational Kiswahili and Wolof. He is currently researching and writing a thesis about the late-Victorian construction of the Uganda Railway, examining...
Kristina Tester
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Kristina Tester is a 2014 graduate of the Department of African and African American studies at Harvard. She currently works as a research assistant and program coordinator for the Division of Global Health and Human Rights at Massachusetts General...
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The Social Engagement thesis encourages students to think “outside the box” and incorporate academic work with social entrepreneurship. The thesis requires three parts: academic essay; visual documentary; and policy recommendations. Sangu Delle Project...
Social Engagement Courses
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Classes designated as Social Engagement and independent tutorials taken as such reveal how and why academic findings, theories, and even technological or medical discoveries are challenged and even refuted by the lived experiences and cultural...
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What We Do The Social Engagement Initiative in the Department of African and African American Studies at Harvard University promotes academically informed civic responsibility among undergraduate and graduate students. Begun in academic year 2006-2007...