UMD Summer Study Abroad - Bolivia
UMD-Summer: Bolivia: Global Health Lessons in Ecotourism and Community Health (EPIB/MIEH)
During this course, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to learn about the difficulties of promoting health in remote areas with a great biodiversity, with so many environmental threats, so little economic resources and, at the same time, such a fantastic indigenous local knowledge. At the end of the course, you will better understand ecotourism for its importance in conservation, and how it affects real people. In country, you will meet with indigenous community members and leading experts in ecohealth, protected areas management and agroecology as well as health professionals who provide care in remote areas of the Bolivian Amazon.
Read more and apply here: https://globalmaryland.umd.edu/offices/education-abroad/program/11677?fbclid=IwAR1zCXnI9VQGAsR5J2YZcjhdWcJLKyRNhoq-Cn6xRxe6Jnp7TY4Qsluw9mA
Photos, videos and blogs about our 2019 course can be viewed on our new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Education-Website/Bolivia-Global-Health-Lessons-in-Ecotourism-and-Community-Health-104320101094724/