DDI Fall Speaker Series – Dr. Susan Erikson

DDI Fall Speaker Series, 6th September from 12:30- 1:30pm PST

Dr. Susan Erikson, SFU Faculty of Health Sciences and DDI Fluencies Faculty Fellow

Dr. Erikson studies highly complex political and economic systems that shape human health experiences. She is a medical anthropologist who has worked in Africa, Europe, Central Asia, and North America. During an earlier international affairs career, Dr. Erikson first lived in an eastern Sierra Leonean village for two years before working with government departments and foreign affairs organizations on foreign policy and trade issues. As an academic, she combines her practical experience with a critical study of global political economy of health. Her work has been published in Nature, The Lancet, BMJ, Medical Anthropology, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Global Public Health, Critical Public Health, Anthropologica and others. Media quoting/citing her work include Nature, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Wired, Al Bawaba and others.

This is a hybrid event.

Email: ddi_comms@sfu.ca for the zoom link.