Browsing by Department "Program II"
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Assessing Cardiovascular Disease Burden in Rural Uganda and Informing Future Interventions
(2018-01-07)This senior thesis seeks to investigate cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a rural region in Uganda and to use insights from field experience and the literature to explore possible interventions. The thesis research involved ... -
Blurring Contagion in the Information Age: How COVID-19 Troubles the Boundaries of the Biomedical and Socioinformatic
(2021-04-19)This project reexamines contagion in the time of the internet through utilizing COVID-19 as a case study. I first look at the biomedical implications of the term contagion through a historical lens and then track its leakage ... -
Challenges and supports to aging in place in a gentrifying context
(2020-05)Background and Objectives: Neighborhoods play a critical role in healthy aging, with changes to neighborhoods having a profound impact on individuals’ ability to age in place. Using gentrification as an indicator of neighborhood ... -
Creating Meaning Through Storytelling at the End of Life
(2017-05-08)This thesis will examine how patients, families, and doctors in the United States create narratives around dying. While this study does not focus extensively on narrative theory, it will explore how different people look ... -
Improving the impact of health services delivery: The relationship between physician and patient in the Aravind Eye Care System Outreach Camp Project in Rayavaram, India
(2011-12-08)This paper investigates the relationship between physician and patient at an outreach eye camp in Rayavaram, Tamilnadu, India. This outreach eye camp represents free ophthalmic care delivery to a rural, medically underserved ... -
Labor Attrition between South Africa’s Public and Private Health Sectors: A Mixed-Methods Case Study of KwaZulu-Natal Dietitians
(2018-04-25)The South African health care system has a highly inequitable distribution of human and financial resources. The private sector only serves 28-38% of the population but has 59% of medical specialists. Applying the concept ... -
Mental Health of the Latinx Community in the United States
(2023-04-20)Recent spark in political activism for minority communities in combination with social de-stigmatization of mental health has shined light on negative mental health outcomes for minority communities in the United States. ... -
Out of the Laager, Into the Streets: The Origins, Rise, and Fall of Gay Reform Organizing in Apartheid South Africa
(2014-08-18)This paper chronicles the history of South Africa's gay reform movement from the beginning of apartheid in the 1950s through the fall of apartheid in the late 1980s. The gay reform movement spanned from 1968 to 1987, centered ... -
Power Plays: The Use of Forum Theatre in Senegal and Kenya to Perform Participation and Rehearse Change
(2013-06-07)This thesis examines the possibilities and limitations of theatre as a development intervention by exploring its contested execution on the ground. Ethnographic investigations compare NGO-directed “Theatre for Development” ... -
The Long History of Policing Black Durham
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The Long History of Policing Black Durham
(2016-05-05)This is a story that I have had unique access to as a concerned community member and student. While I could have focused on one specific moment, this thesis surveys a variety of key periods throughout Durham’s past in order ... -
The Person in Society: Active and Relational
(2017-07-02)This paper is a three-part examination in philosophical anthropology that reflects the curricular framework of my Program II major, "Markets, Society, and Personalism," which focuses on the consequences of a society's working ... -
Through the Lenses of Q’eqchi Maya: (Re)Framing the Story of Development in a Guatemalan Indigenous Community Through Participant-Created Photographs
(2016-08-24)The question of evaluations of development projects has been widely debated within the field of international development, with scholars and development practitioners calling for increased community-driven evaluations. ... -
Why Designers Should Study Semiotics: Applications of Semiotics to User Interface Design
(2023-04-10)Adopting a semiotic perspective greatly benefits user interface designers, however its potential has remained largely untapped in the field of human computer interaction and user interface design. In this essay I explain ...
