Medical anthropology: how poverty contributes to antimicrobial resistance

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 Anthropology, Sociology and Social Sciences.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Professor Clare Chandler and Susan Nayiga from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. They are medical anthropologists, investigating the use of antibiotics in communities in Uganda, with a goal to combatting the global issue of antimicrobial resistance.

• This resource also contains interviews with Clare and Susan. If your students have questions for them, they can send them to Clare and Susan online. All they need to do is to go to the article online (see the Futurum link below), scroll down to the end and type in the question(s). Clare and Susan will reply!

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Clare and Susan’s research and challenges them to think about how different cultures view issues related to health and illness.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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