COVID-19 Syndemics and the Global South: A World Divided

This book focuses on syndemics in the Global South and uses COVID-19 as a window to understand clusters of disparities and disease comorbidities. The pandemic has exposed and multiplied structural inequalities and certain subpopulations were more exposed to COVID-19 as well as experienced greater morbidity and mortality. The effects of the pandemic differ between countries but have had an especially major impact, although in varying ways, in the Global South. The contributions in this volume explore the differential impacts of COVID-19 at individual, community, national, or regional levels, considering how structural violence is institutionalized in a way that creates vulnerable situations and disproportionate suffering. The book will be of interest to anthropologists and sociologists as well as to those working in global and public health.

Inayat Ali leads the Department of Public Health and Allied Sciences at Fatima Jinnah Women University, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at FJWU, Pakistan. He is also Research Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria.

Merrill Singer is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA.

Nicola Bulled is Assistant Research Professor at the Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy (InCHIP), University of Connecticut, USA.