In this guest post, medical anthropologist Dr Catherine Trundle discusses why it is important to keep the social factors that shape health at the forefront of public debate and policy decisions.
Graduate stories: Evelyn Walford-Bourke
Celebrating anthropological research in New Zealand: Lorena Gibson
Dr Lorena Gibson is one of the 2016 recipients of a prestigious Marsden Fast-Start Award. Her project, East Side Orchestras: Music, Poverty, and Social Change, explores the social impacts of three charitable organisations that provide free music education programmes inspired by El Sistema, one of the world’s most successful movements for musical and social development, in low decile schools in urban Wellington.