How do people experience health, illness and wellbeing? How do health interventions travel across the globe? How are health inequalities embodied, created and subverted through institutional structures and public spaces? These are several of the core questions that medical anthropologists work on. Leiden University has medical anthropologists in various faculties and departments. The Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) brings these anthropologists together with the aim of fostering interfaculty collaborations and creating common ground for working interdisciplinary on health-related themes in Leiden and beyond.

How can anthropological insights most effectively contribute to addressing societal questions on health and care? On Friday the 15th of December, the Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network and the ERC-funded Globalizing Palliative Care project hosted a roundtable discussion about the impact of medical anthropology research in Indonesia.

The Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) brings medical anthropologists together with the aim of fostering interfaculty collaborations and creating common ground for working interdisciplinary on health-related themes in Leiden and beyond.