Volunteer Tourism - GHS Speaker Series

Wed, August 26, 2026 4:00 PM - Wed, August 26, 2026 5:00 PM at Online (Zoom)

Join Dr. Andrea Freidus Turner as she discusses the topic of volunteer tourism and its negative impacts, as well as what can be done to change it. Dr. Freidus has over 15 years of experience researching the intersection of culture, health, and disease. She received her PhD in medical anthropology from Michigan State University and holds an MPH in Global Public Health. 

As an applied scholar, her work is often collaborative, community-based, and participatory, exploring varying domestic and international topics such as transnational responses to orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi, volunteer tourism in Malawi, risky sexual behavior and tourism in Costa Rica, black women’s health equity in North Carolina, college student food and housing insecurity, and health resource access for migrant farmworkers access in Immokalee, Florida.