Culture, Community, and Digital Health in Ghana

In this course, students examine how Ghanaian cultural worlds and community infrastructures adopt, shape, and resist the design and impact of AI and information communication technologies. Students will examine how the Ghana Health Service engages culture, traditional health, community infrastructures, and digital technologies in its efforts to strengthen health systems, public health communication, and health equity. To achieve this, students will attend seminars alongside field visits to community clinics, traditional healers, and digital health startups, as well as explore archival and media-generated Ghanaian and Black diasporic health narratives. The course foregrounds Africana/Black Studies approaches to health, history, and data justice.