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GLST 26383 : Mapping Global Chicago Research Lab: Health and Well-being among the Tibetan Diaspora in Chicago

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Project description

Mapping Global Chicago is a collaborative, interdisciplinary undergraduate research initiative investigating the idea of the �global city.� This year, we will investigate the changing attitudes towards medical practice and care among members of the Tibetan diaspora community here in Chicago. We will consider how both long-term shifts and more recent events such as of the COVID-19 pandemic have affected Tibetan Chicagoans' approach to Western and traditional Tibetan medicine and the practice of religion as it relates to well-being. Students from across disciplines are encouraged to participate in this lab. The lab has been student-designed and will take shape according to diverse student interests and skill sets, including but not limited to ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, surveys, GIS, and data science.