McGill Summer Schools in Global Health

I am very happy and grateful to share that my course “Ethnographic Approaches for Global Health Research” has been accepted as part of the McGill Summer School in Global Health, a program with more than ten years of experience promoting access to innovative and relevant courses for participants from around the world.

This year, the Summer School will offer, for the first time, a course entirely in Spanish —an important step toward expanding access for those for whom English may be a barrier. I am deeply excited that this initiative will help bring tools, debates, and methodologies to a more diverse community, especially to those working in and from the Global South.

My course, which will be online and will take place from June 8 to June 12, 2026, and which I am preparing with great care and enthusiasm, will explore the foundations and practices of ethnography as applied to global health: fieldwork, interviewing, participant observation, ethics, reflexivity, qualitative analysis, and the critical relationship between anthropology, public policy, and the lived experiences of patients and communities.

We will be joined by guest speakers from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, and other countries—researchers whose trajectories have been shaped in the Global South and whose experiences open up urgent questions about how to rethink and reimagine global health, including at the methodological level.

It will also be a wonderful opportunity to connect with colleagues, build networks, share challenges, and think together about how to create more just, situated, and collaborative ways of researching and teaching.