Welcome to our website archive of multimedia public health awareness campaigns designed and created in our 2014 Medical Anthropology course at the Australian National University.

   

   Our approach is to apply a medical anthropology perspective on a variety of public health issues that concern the general population and specific communities. The objective of the Medical Anthropology course is to understand how conceptions of the human body, health practices, illness conditions, and the rituals of medicine and healing are shaped by various cultural, historical, political, economic, social, and ethical contexts. We have utilized this informed approach to produce campaigns that take into account the diverse ideological and social contexts for understanding health and sickness in our contemporary, globalized world.

   

   This year, we would like to contribute to the public health discourse on the following health and medical issues that we have identified as warranting further attention: Alzheimer’s disease, anorexia nervosa, consequences of racism for indigenous health in Australia, designing inclusively for disabled persons, the spread of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, mental health support for cancer patients, effective sexual health education, importance of childhood vaccinations, the risks of travel to specific regions without proper vaccinations, and the abuse of steroids. Collectively, we want to communicate how a medical anthropology perspective that takes into account age, class, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, sexuality, and ideological persuasion provides us with a critically important and socially useful approach to creating policies that are more inclusive, respectful, and effective.

 

   We welcome you to explore our website and navigate through each campaign which includes an informative brochure, an infographic, and a video or podcast.

 

 

  Thank you for sharing our interest and supporting our vision!