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Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities

San José & field sites, Costa Rica

Freddy Ulate

Areas of expertise

Child health issues and children's issues related to human rights

Degrees

  • B.S. in Health Philosophy, Universidad Nacional, Heredia
  • M.D. in Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Costa Rica

Potential student research areas

  • Perception of development of children in a rural population
  • Knowledge of medicines which give health services in rural population
  • Knowledge and practices on intestinal parasites in rural families
  • Knowledge and maternal breast feeding practices in a rural population
  • Forms of disciplining children in a rural community

Biography

Freddy Ulate is the National Coordinator within the Costa Rican Social Security System.  In the Institute, Freddy coordinates molested children attention and children’s human rights.  In addition to studying medicine and pediatrics, he has studied anthropology and philosophy to better understand relationships between adults and children.  He has also integrated other disciplines (education, justice, security, universities, politics, etc) in this area with the ACM students he has worked with.  Most of his ACM students have been in the field of health anthropology, which has been converted into important information for the public health field in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica: Field Research in the Environment, Social Sciences, & Humanities

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Stephanie Jaros, Research Coordinator at Stanford University's Bipolar Disorders Clinic My ACM Costa Rica experience can best be summed up as inspirational. It was the first time I truly felt useful as a researcher, carrying out research that was bigger than me but somehow, made better by my hard work and by that of my team members. Also, I got my first true idea of just how research can go wrong and, in spite of the best-laid plans, can be taken off track by external forces. As a result, I learned the best lesson of social research- what I want to learn and what others want to teach me are often two different things, and the only way to make the best of it is to change my perspective, not that of those who are being kind enough to share their lives with me. The ACM Field Research Program is the only one I know of that truly challenges its students, and I managed to love every second of it.

—Stephanie Jaros, Research Coordinator at Stanford University's Bipolar Disorders Clinic, Costa Rica, Spring 1998

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