Dina Asfaha

Dina became a Cooke Young Scholar in 2007, and majored in African Studies as a College Scholar at Barnard College. As a Graduate Scholar, she earned her master's degree in Oral History from Columbia and then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her PhD in Anthropology. Dina is now working as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT's Department of Anthropology, and her work and interests focus on the social, political-economic, and cultural factors that shape health, medicine, and medical humanitarianism in Africa and the African diaspora.