Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley
Snell-Rood is a medical anthropologist examining how varied social relationships contribute to mental health and overall wellbeing. Focusing particularly on women living in poverty, she has conducted ethnographic and qualitative research among women living in slums in urban India and among women with depression in rural Appalachia, partnering with community-based research and advocacy organizations and lay health worker initiatives. Snell-Rood's current work explores how mental health interventions can be culturally tailored and implemented in low-resource rural U.S. settings.
AHCA would make rural America's already distressed health care worse
Jun 27, 2017 02:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Health Politics
Much has been made of the distress and discontent in rural areas during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Few realize, however, this is also felt through unequal health. Researchers call it the rural mortality...
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