Medical Anthropology Course
Explore how culture shapes health in this Medical Anthropology Course. Learn ethical fieldwork, ethnographic methods, and data analysis to design culturally sensitive interventions for Latin American urban communities and diverse patient groups.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Medical Anthropology Course offers a concise, practice-oriented introduction to cultural concepts of health, illness, and healing systems, with a strong focus on Latin American urban contexts. Learn ethical, locally sensitive research design, ethnographic methods, qualitative coding, and comparative analysis, then translate findings into concrete, culturally adapted health communication and collaborative interventions for real-world impact.
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Develop skills
- Design ethical fieldwork: build trust, consent, and protect sensitive data.
- Apply rapid ethnography: interviews, observation, and REA in urban clinics.
- Manage qualitative data: code, compare cultures, and spot stigma and gender norms.
- Read Latin American health literature fast and extract policy-ready insights.
- Turn findings into action: adapt messages, train teams, and engage healers.
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