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Menan Jangu
Menan Jangu is a PhD candidate in the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. He received his B.S in Chemical and Process Engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam in 1994 and worked in industries before joining the National Environment Management Council of Tanzania. He joined St. Cloud State University in Minnesota in 2002 for Masters Degree studies in Social Responsibility, and Environmental and Technological Studies. At the University of Michigan, he has been a Research Assistant examining policy and technical issues related to climate change, ecological changes and health impacts. He has also taught Global Change courses which enable students to examine the dynamics of natural systems and the impacts of human activities on the environment. He will be teaching Environmental Justice in Contemporary Africa for students in the Center for African-American and African Studies.
Menan has an appreciation of the complex biophysical and social world and the need of working collaboratively across disciplinary lines. In his proposed project he is adapting integrative anthropological approaches, public health concerns and an environmental justice framework. His own research project aims to explore the understandings and uses of both traditional and biomedical or western health care systems in and around the town of Mwanza (Tanzania). Menan is interested in examining the socially embedded healing practices in the rural hinterlands from which many current Mwanza residents originate, in relation to the commercialized healing practices on this urbanizing economic frontier where storefront “quick fixes” are popular for those with limited income facing rising HIV-AIDS rates. In his research he documents the changes in traditional healing practices in response to the rapid social and ecological exchange. Menan acknowledges that understanding the spectrum of change and continuity in traditional healing is crucial to understanding the range of endogenous and exogenous opportunities available for building better health care delivery, and building it in ways that relate and respond effectively to the broader environmental and social processes shaping health challenges.
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