Descriptions and Information on Current Projects.

Public Interest High School Initiative
Teaching cultural anthropology at University City High School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

The Turner Nutrition Awareness Project
TNAP, which is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Community Partnerships and the Department of Anthropology, seeks to link the intellectual resources at Penn with the those of the John B. Turner Middle School in West Philadelphia to improve the health and nutrition of the surrounding community. The project has been supported by grants from the Ford Foundation, the W. H. Kellogg Foundation, the Nassau Fund, private donors, and the University of Pennsylvania.

University of Pennsylvania Africa Health Group
An interdisciplinary group which seeks to expand knowledge about connections between health and society in Africa and is committed to improving health conditions in African communities.

Urban Nutrition Initiative
UNI involves children from West Philadelphia in a school-based community health curriculum that strives to improve nutritional status and promote active learning.

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on AIDS
PIDA is a yearlong series of informed critical discussions about the global AIDS pandemic. PIDA endeavors through an interdisciplinary approach to expand understanding of the problem by juxtaposing biomedical, behavioral and sociocultural aspects of AIDS and contextualizing the pandemic within a geographic framework.