VANCOUVER, Wash. David Citrin, director of impact for Possible, will present Confessions of a Medical Voluntourist: Ethical Global Engagement and the Unintended Consequences of Ephemeral Care from noon 1 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Dengerink Administration Building, Room 110 on the Washington State University Vancouver Campus.
Citrin is a medical anthropologist trained in global public health who has worked in Nepal since 2001. He will share why the potential long-term impacts of short-term medical care require further consideration in an era of renewed global health efforts. His personal experiences as a medical voluntourist working with NGOs to coordinate health camps led him to critically examine the possibilities and limits for our desires to do good abroad.
Short-term medical volunteer trips are an emergent form of global interaction where students, tourists and medical practitioners participate in training and educational opportunities or direct service delivery in less developed countries. The intention to do good is real. Do the results bear out the intention?
Citrin received his undergraduate education at Cornell University, and his Masters in Public Health and doctorate degree from the University of Washington, where he is an affiliate instructor in the departments of anthropology and global health, and co-directs the Nepal Studies Initiative in the Jackson School of International Studies.
Possible (possiblehealth.org) believes in proving its possible to deliver high-quality, low-cost healthcare to the worlds poor.
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