Engaging Communities to Improve Sexual and Reproductive Health (MASSH)

Engaging Communities to Improve Sexual and

Reproductive Health (MASSH)

 

CHAIR: HOLBROOK, Emily (USF)

ALTMAN, Heidi M. (GA Southern U) Sex and

Childbirth Education and Maternal Health 

HOLBROOK, Emily (USF) Delivering Sexual and

Reproductive Healthcare to Resettled Refugee

Women through Collaborative Research

PESANTES, Amalia (Dickinson Coll) and GIANELLA,

Camila (Pontificia U Catolica del Peru) Providing

Sexual and Reproductive Health Services During the

COVID-19 Pandemic in Lima, Peru

 

HOLBROOK, Emily (USF) Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare to

Resettled Refugee Women through Collaborative Research. This research

explores the intersections of biopolitics, citizenship, and feminist perspectives on

women’s health that result in poor health outcomes for resettled refugee women

in the United States. Ethnographic research among female-headed households

in the refugees from the Congo Wars community will be used to develop, pilot,

and evaluate a health-at-home program for sexual and reproductive healthcare

through collaboration with a local medical outreach program. This research will

highlight the ways that anthropological theories help to better understand factors

in health disparities in vulnerable communities and how an applied approach

can work with community partners to mitigate barriers to care for those most in

need.

 

Session took place in Cincinnati, OH at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2023.