Media Engagement

Op-Eds

2020 with Shailey Prasad. “COVID-19 is a Stress Test for the WHO.” The Hill, April 25.

2020 “How to Inform and Empower Children During COVID-19.” The Hill, March 13.

2018 with Lisa Ann Richey. “There are Better Ways to Fight Poverty than Giving Money to Corporations.” Huffington Post, May 24th.

2018 “HIV’s Ancient ‘Cousin’ is Ravaging Australia and Could Spread Worldwide.” The Hill, May 8th.

2018 “Baby Steps in the Senate are just That.” The Hill, April 20th.

2018 “Marital Status should not Define a Woman.” Role Reboot, April 4th.

2018 “When Volunteering Abroad Does more Harm than Good.” Huffington Post, Feb. 11.

2017 “Good Intentions and Murky Ethics: How Anthropology Matters in Short-Term Global Health Travel,” with Nicole Berry. Anthropology News November/December issue.

2017 “Who Leads WHO Matters: Why Misconceptions about Africa Persist.” Medium, June 23.

2017 “The AHCA Debate is Missing Crucial Healthcare Costs” The Hill, June 1.

2017 “The Trouble with Medical ‘Voluntourism‘” Scientific American, May 16.

2017 “Why Market Logic Can’t Solve the US Health Care Crisis.” Truthout. May 15.

2017 “The Right Way to Give.” US News & World Report, April 19th.

2017 “Why International Medical Volunteering Does More Harm Than Good.” Role Reboot. April 14th.

2017 “Neoliberalism is Killing Us: Economic Stress as a Driver of Global Depression and Suicide.” Truthout. April 2nd.

2017 “Telling the Anti-Vaccine Community They’re Wrong has been Tried for Years Now, and it Doesn’t Work–Here’s Another Approach.” Alternet. March 14th.

2017 “Global Gag Rule’s Impact Goes Far Beyond Abortion.” Footnote. Feb. 10th.

2017 “New Administration must Look to Recent Past for Global Health Lessons.” The Hill. Jan. 18th.

2016 “Why is Healthcare so Expensive in the United States?” The Hill. Dec. 6th.

2016     “We Need to Stop Sending Unskilled Volunteers to Countries that Need Care.” VICE Motherboard. Nov. 15^th.

2016 “Global Poor’s Medical Care would be Unethical in US” Orlando Sentinel. Feb. 25.

Media Appearances & Interviews

2021 Temps Présent, Radio Télévision Swisse, “Tourisme humanitaire: le business de la honte” [Humanitarian Tourism: The Business of Shame], aired Nov. 11th.

2020 Episode #84 “Passports and Procedures: Receiving and Providing Care Abroad.”  Raw Talk Podcast, University of Toronto, aired Nov. 4^th.

2020 Pai, Madhukar, “Reciprocity in Global Health: Ain’t Easy but Vital,” Forbes. March 1st.

2019 The Stream (Al Jazeera English), “Does humanitarian aid have a White Savior problem?“, aired June 20th.

2018  Schröder, Thorsten. “Wenn die Lebensrettung plötzlich unbezahlbar wird” [When a Life Saver Suddenly becomes Priceless] Die Zeit (German), Nov. 23.

2018   WGN Radio Saturday Night Special with Amy Guth, “Volunteering and Non-Profit.” Feb. 3.

2017   Calacal, Celisa. “A Not so Helping Hand: How Voluntourism Perpetuates a Dangerous Saviorship Complex.” Buzzsaw, Oct. 17^th.

2017     Schröder, Thorston, “Obamacare, Unbezahlbare Gesundheit (Invaluable Health)” Die Zeit (German), August 5th.

2017     Schröder, Thorston, “Obamacare: Ein Krankes System (A Sick System)” Die Zeit (German), March 14th.

2016     The Stream (Al Jazeera English), “Medical Volunteerism“, aired August 1st.

2016     Fu, Megan. Amateurs play doctor for world’s poor. The Daily Beast, June 1st.

Videos of Talks/Panels

2017 “Good Intentions and Murky Ethics: How Anthropology Matters in Short-Term Global Health Travel” Video of Executive Session at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting panel in Washington DC on anthropologically-minded practitioners engaged in global health travel. Dec. 2nd.

2017 “Global Reproductive Health from Below: From Formal ‘Magic Bullets’ to Informal Volunteer Practice” Talk at Feinberg School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Sept. 1st.