People

Alé Barrientos

PhD Student

Contact

Email: abarrientos1@usf.edu

Education

  • MPH, Global Health, University of Washington
  • MS, Applied Anthropology, University of North Texas
  • BAS, Community Health & Education, Seattle Central College

Advisor

Dr. Heide Castañeda

Teaching

Teaching Assistant – ANT 4462 Health, Illness & Culture

Research Interests

Critical medical anthropology; structural violence and social suffering; necropolitics; syndemics; gender and violence; mental health and psychosocial well-being; kinship and care; migration, borders, and health; health-seeking and medical pluralism; social epidemiology; ethnographic and mixed-methods research.

Latin America – México; East Africa – Tanzania, Kenya; United States – Washington State

Publications

Graham, S. M., Otieno, F. O., Kimani, J., Barrientos, A., Soge, O. O., Sharma, M., Hamilton, D. T., Celum, C., McClelland, R. S., & Sanders, E. J. (2026).  JMIR Research Protocols, 15, e81113.