Dr. Aku A Personal Experience At Public Health

When looking at public health there is a clear intersection of several discourses. The physical and cultural worlds of Anthropology have a quality of aligning these two topics into a well-designed framework for how humans have shaped their own attitudes on what is “healthy”. While both worlds continually expand in response to how society does these several opinions on what is healthy begin to be developed into a how-to guide. I have interviewed a person whose main goal is to bridge this gap so that an all-inclusive guide to ideal health that be obtained through obtaining knowledge through research and then sharing it to the everyday man. Dr. Akua Woolbright, having wished to be called Dr. Akua, confesses that her job goes by many titles; she is a Nutritionist and Nutrition Program Director at …show more content…
Akua interacts with her colleagues, I wanted her to explain to me some details of her interactions with students and other fixtures of the public. Dr. Akua then went on to explain to me some of the dynamics of the workshop she regularly hosts in Midtown Detroit at the Whole Foods Market Classroom. The workshop is set up as an rotating platform for public speakers on varying topic of nutrition and health care that she personally picks herself. Dr. Akua expressed that her goal is for the class to be a “source for nutrition information”(Woolbright) in order to “help people feel confident in evidence based information” that is “practical to do at home”. Dr. Akua formulated the class to be weekly based in order to leave her attendants feeling “inspired and excited”. Her aims include having an “entertainment factor, social feeling and tight content”. Furthermore, she emphasized that she has and will continue to be very selective in her speakers because she wants her students to get sound nutrition advice. A “place to make sense of conflicting nutrition messages” and follow a model of having “practical tools and steps to feel