Arachu Castro

Dr. Arachu Castro, Ph.D., MPH, is Professor and Samuel Z. Stone Chair of Public Health in Latin America and Director of the Center for Health Equity in Latin America at the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University. Dr. Castro conducts research at the intersection of medical anthropology and epidemiology and focuses on women’s health and early childhood development in contexts of poverty. Before joining Tulane in 2013, she was Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Castro has received the 2005 Rudolf Virchow Award and the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2012, she was named Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology, is a former President of the Society for Medical Anthropology, and an elected corresponding member of the Cuban Academy of Sciences. She is a member of the Executive Committees of the Health Equity Network of the Americas, the Sustainable Health Equity Movement, the Framework Convention on Global Health Equity Alliance, IPPF’s International Medical Advisory Panel, the World Humanitarian Forum Global Health Board, and the Pan American Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group on Sustainable Development Goals and Health Equity. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology and ethnology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (1996), a Ph.D. in social sciences and health from the University of Barcelona (1997), and an MPH from Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston (1998). More information: https://sph.tulane.edu/ihsd/arachu-castro-phd-mph.