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Chile: Public Health and Community Welfare

Program Overview

The SIT Study Abroad Chile: Public Health and Community Welfare program offers students unique insight and exposure to healthcare politics in a multicultural and rapidly changing region of South America. This program, which looks at the impact of migration and demographic shifts on the cultural composition of Chilean society, will provide future professional health practitioners, policy makers and social activists with an essential understanding of Latin American cultures within the health services field.

Based in Chile’s northern-most city of Arica, and including excursions to Tacna, Peru and the Mapuche territory in the southern part of the country, this program offers numerous opportunities for engagement and interaction with faculty members at the Universidad de Tarapacá, medical health professionals, local and national government health officials, urban and rural residents, herbalists, intercultural medicine practitioners, and local university students in both urban and rural settings. These interactions will allow to students to develop a comprehensive, up-close understanding of health and community welfare.