Good News!

Please welcome Dr. Guadalupe Salazar
to our department.

Dr. Guadalupe Salazar has a doctorate in Medical Anthropology from the joint program at the University of California San Francisco/Berkeley, in addition to a Masters in Public Health from Boston University. Her special fields of interest are the anthropology of childhood, human rights and social suffering. Her dissertation work was entitled Street Children in Chile: Second Class Citizens in the Making. She has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UCSF in the Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition where she taught medical students and worked with children and youth in the Bay Area diagnosed with gastrointestinal diseases. She has published in journals of anthropology and Latin American studies. She comes with a strong background in community engagement and research, having participated in the Peace Corps in the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros in Africa, in the Americorps, the New England Research Institute and the California Mini-Corps. Dr. Salazar brings a distinctive combination of expertise in ethnographic research with children and work in community organizations.