CARRIE RYAN
How can students apply anthropology to catalyse social change? In the coming weeks, the second annual Advocacy Letter series will showcase thirteen student Advocacy Letters that examine a wide range of contemporary health issues, including transgender healthcare, immigration policy, and mental health services for youth. In these letters, students draw on anthropological insights to critique global and public health approaches to these issues and to advocate for new, more experience-centred health interventions.
Sheba Mohammid and Daniel Miller
ISOBEL THORLEY
Dear Elizabeth Truss, Nadine Dorris and Priti Patel,
RAHUL ADVANI
In April and May 2021, the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in India, driven largely by the delta variant, saw the country’s collapsing healthcare system make international news headlines. While images of bodies being burned in makeshift funeral pyres glowed from television screens, desperate pleas for hospital beds and oxygen cylinders flooded social media, exposing the direness of the situation.
URSULA WHITE
February 2021
Dear Secretary of State,
JASMIN SIMAO AJAYI
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I am a German citizen from Munich, currently in my final year of studying Anthropology at the University College London (UCL). I am writing to you today to address an issue that has come to my attention recently: the disproportionate effect of Covid-19 on economically disadvantaged and minority ethnic people in Germany and particularly the lack of data-collection in those respects.ÌýÌý
PETER BICCAREGUI
Calling for a follow up report.Ìý
PIA KEELEY-JOHNSON
DearÌýGavin Williamson,Ìý
EMILIE THOMPSON
28thÌýFebruary 2021Ìý
Dear Mrs Murdoch,Ìý
Please let me express my enormous gratitude for the work you and your team continue to conduct in the face of the current pandemic. The NHS are demonstrating unwavering resilience and dedication that is nothing short of inspiring.ÌýÌý
PEPE WEISCHER
Dear Mr Spahn,
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