Tulane University

Contact Info
acastro1@tulane.edu

Degrees

• M.A., University of Barcelona, History/Social Anthropology, 1998
• R.D., Polytechnic Institute, Barcelona, Nutrition, 1989
• M.A., École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Social Anthropology & Ethnology, Paris, 1992
• Ph.D., EHESS, Social Anthropology & Ethnology, 1996
• Ph.D., University of Barcelona with credits from University of California, Berkeley, Sociology, 1997
• MPH, Harvard School of Public Health, International Health, 1998

Academic Experience

• Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America, Tulane University, 2013-
• Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, 2011-2012
• Assistant Professor of Social Medicine Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, 2004-11
• Instructor in Medical Anthropology, Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, 2001-04

Research & Teaching Specializations: Infectious disease, women's health, primary health care in low-and middle-income settings, social inequality, health policy, medical anthropology, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Related Experience

• Consultant, World Bank, 2012-
• Consultant, UNICEF, 2007- (intermittent)
• Consultant, Pan American Health Organization, 2001-2011 (intermittent)
• Medical Anthropologist, Division of Global Health Equity, Dept. Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2004-2012
• Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2003-06
• Mexico and Guatemala Projects Director, Partners In Health, Boston, 2001-08
• Chair, Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus, Society for Medical Anthropology, 1998-2002

Distinctions

• Fellow, Society for Applied Anthropology, 2012
• Guggenheim Fellowship, Medicine and Health, United States and Canada Competition, 2010
• Burke Global Health Fellowship, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, 2009
• Bacardi Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Latin American Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, 2009
• Rudolf Virchow Award, Professional Prize, Critical Anthropology of Health Caucus, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2005
• Dean's Letter, Excellence in Teaching (Freshman seminar), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 2005
• Conmemorative Medal for the Centenary of Professor Pedro Kourí. Institute of Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí. Havana, Cuba, 2001

Languages: English, Spanish, French, Catalan, Portuguese (basic), Haitian Creole (basic)

Selected Publications

• 2013. "Health insurance for the poor decreases access to HIV testing in antenatal care: Evidence of an unintended effect of health insurance reform in Colombia." With Allison Ettenger and Till Bärnighausen. Health Policy and Planning 1-7; doi: 10.1093/heapol/czt021
• 2012. “Quality of Life of People with HIV/AIDS Receiving Antiretroviral Therapy in Cuba: A Cross-Sectional Study of the National Population.” With Carlos Aragonés-López, Jorge Pérez-Ávila, and Mary C. Smith Fawzi. American Journal of Public Health 102(5):884-892.
• 2011. Análisis Regional Consolidado de los Informes UNGASS Presentados por 17 Países de América Latina en 2011. Panama: UNAIDS Regional Support Team for Latin America.
• 2011. "En estado de buena esperanza: Análisis de la experiencia reproductiva en mujeres con VIH en Cuba." In Jesús Armando Haro (ed.) El planteamiento de una epidemiología sociocultural: Un diálogo en torno a su sentido, métodos y alcances. Buenos Aires: Lugar Editorial and El Colegio de Sonora.
• 2010. "Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in Latin America." With Yasmin Khawja and James Johnston. In Plagues and Epidemics: Infected Spaces Past and Present. Eds. Ann Herring and Alan Swedlund. New York, Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 231-249.
• 2009. (Ed.) Challenges Posed by the HIV Epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean 2009. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNAIDS.
• 2009. "Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV and Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean," in Challenges Posed by the HIV Epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean 2009. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNAIDS.
• 2004. (Ed.) Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination. With Merrill Singer. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: Health & Inequality in Latin America; Public Health in Cuba

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 5