An Afternoon with Dr. Kylea Liese
Second Year Speaker Series
February 4, 2019
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Dr. Liese is a medical anthropologist and practicing nurse-midwife in the Department of Women, Children, and Family Health Science at UIC’s College of Nursing. Situated at the intersection of anthropology and public health, her work examines the causal pathways and unforeseen consequences that link reproduction and health disparities. Her talk will draw on ethnographic and survey data from three disparate socio-cultural contexts in Central Asia, Malawi and the United States to examine howhealthcare access and quality impact women’s livelihoods and perinatal outcomes. Using reproductive justice and structural violence as conceptual paradigms, these projects illustrate the ways in which epidemiological disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality expose social vulnerabilities and are actually embedded in healthcare access, delivery and quality.
Date posted
Jan 31, 2019
Date updated
Jan 31, 2019