Anthropological Responses to COVID-19 in the Philippines

• Main Author: Lasco, Gideon
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2022
• Subjects: anthropology; medical anthropology; health crises; COVID-19; Philippines; social sciences; Anthropology; Biological and Physical Anthropology; Medicine and Health Sciences; Other Anthropology; Public Health; Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/dev-stud-faculty-pubs/116; https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1116&context=dev-stud-faculty-pubs
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This article reflects on the roles anthropologists have played in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines, and identifies the challenges – from the methodological to the political – they faced in fulfilling these roles. Drawing on the author's personal and professional experience...