This cluster is an embodiment of the Tri Dharma of higher education, focusing on the interaction between health (both physical and mental), illness, care, and policy at a global level.

This cluster considers how social, economic, political, and cultural factors influence the access to and quality of healthcare across various communities. It operates based on the paradigm of Critical Medical Anthropology: examining agency, power relations, political economy (issues of inequality), feminist perspectives, epigenetics, STS (Science and Technology Studies), and multispecies ethnography. Activities within this cluster involve fields of study (research) and practices that prioritize the improvement and equalization of health for all people worldwide.

This includes teaching, research, and community service activities with an anthropological perspective related to the interaction between healthcare systems, public health policies, epidemiology, and the health challenges faced by vulnerable populations.

• Healthcare dynamics within multicultural and transnational contexts.
• The influence of globalization on health, zoonoses, and emerging/re-emerging diseases in indigenous communities.
• The relationship between health policy, medical practice, and social norms.
• Ethics and Human Rights in the context of global health.
• The impact of climate change and environmental factors on global health.
• Biocultural and biosocial approaches to health issues.

1. Inequality in healthcare access
2. Power relations within health systems
3. Privatization and commodification of healthcare services
4. Distribution of global health resources
5. Perceptions of illness and health across cultures
6. Traditional medicine vs. biomedical practices
7. Social stigma toward disease
8. The relationship between religion, morality, and health
9. Migration and health access
10. Medical tourism
11. Interaction between global and local health systems
12. Healthcare challenges for diasporas and refugees
13. Impact of zoonoses and emerging diseases on indigenous peoples
14. Vulnerability of local communities to pandemics
15. Local knowledge in addressing disease
16. Interactions between ecology, culture, and health