Dates: 02 – 02 Oct, 2018
Speaker: Dr. Pierre Minn, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal
Talk Title: Aspirations of Leadership in Contemporary Global Health Education
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Time: 3pm-5pm
Place: MDCL 3020
Abstract: Global health training programs have grown exponentially in North American universities over the past two decades, but little is known about how the pedagogy and content of these programs is being developed. Based on ethnographic research in the first Masters in Global Health Sciences program in the United States, Minn examines the influence of business and managerial sciences on global health education. In particular, he examines the concept of leadership as an aspirational quality with diverging definitions, and discusses the eventual consequences of leadership-focused training programs on health interventions in impoverished settings.
Bio: Pierre Minn is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Université de Montréal. He conducts ethnographic fieldwork on international aid, global health, morality and epistemology in Haiti and in North America.
Co-sponsors: Hannah History of Medicine Unit FHS, Department of Anthropology, Global Health Program, Institute for Globalization and the Human Condition