Arachu Castro
About Arachu Castro
Arachu Castro, PhD, MPH is a medical anthropologist trained in public health, working mostly in infectious disease (AIDS, tuberculosis, dengue) and reproductive health. Dr. Castro received her PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from Paris' EHESS and in Sociology from the University of Barcelona. She also received her MPH from Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Castro is Assistant Professor of Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Academic Director of the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change. At Partners In Health, she serves as Director of Mexico and Guatemala Projects. (Source: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/castrobio.aspx)
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Academic
Organization
- Harvard Medical School
Language(s)
- English
- French
- Spanish
Recent Contributions
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Arachu Castro replied to "Linking pregnant women with HIV to HIV services in Tanzania" in the Adherence & Retention community.
This is a common problem throughout Latin America. We have been working in several countries, together with the Ministry of Health and UNICEF, to identify the gaps in the provision of care and to translate those gaps into concrete actions. Each setting requires different interventions, depending on the specific gaps identified. The implementation is complex, because some actions require reorganizing certain areas of the health system, other passing a new law, revising clinical protocols, increasing ...
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.