Entourage Lab Output

Media

A group of women and children seated outdoors, listening to a speaker during a community event. The setting appears to be in an urban area with colorful walls, a large tree, and various seating arrangements. A banner in the background indicates the event is related to sexual and reproductive health education for adolescents in Yoff, June-July 2025.

USF team applies lessons learned from Senegal health care project

Kurt Loft│December 12, 2025│Community Health Sciences, Research and Innovation

Publications

Powis, R., 2026. “The Handbook is a Lens: Refractions of Senegalese Society and Global Maternal & Child Health.” In Techniques and Technologies of Global Health: Drugs, Devices, Protocols, and Persuasion, Margaret MacDonald and Ellen Foley, eds. New York: NYU Press. (forthcoming)

Kajangu, M., & Powis, R. 2025. Évaluation réaliste du programme Bajenu Gox : Comprendre les mécanismes, les contextes et les effets perçus dans la commune de Yoff. Rapport d’étape pour le Ministère de la santé et de l’action sociale. La République du Sénégal. [Realist evaluation of the Bajenu Gox Program: Understanding the mechanisms, contexts, and perceived outcomes in the Yoff community. Progress report for the Ministry of Health and Social Action. Republic of Senegal.]

Powis, R. & Strong, AE. 2025. “Over-Looked Spaces: Theorizing Surveillance-Care in Reproductive Health.” Medical Anthropology, Special Issue: Surveillance-Care. (Link)

Powis, R. 2024. “Making Sure She Eats Right: Men as Agents of State Surveillance (Care) in Dakar, Senegal.” Medical Anthropology, Special Issue: Surveillance-Care. (Link)

Powis, R. & Bunkley, EN. 2023. “Handbooks and Health Interpreters: How Men are Assets for their Pregnant Partners in Senegal.” Social Science & Medicine. (Link)

Powis, R. 2022. “(Mis)measuring Men’s Involvement in Global Health: The Case of Expectant Fatherhood in Dakar, Senegal.” BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth. (Link)

Powis, R. 2021. “Non fi daffa métti.” Visual Anthropology Review. (Link, Supplement)

Powis, R. 2021. “From ‘Couvade’ to ‘Men’s Involvement’: Sociocultural Perspectives of Expectant Fatherhood.” In The Routledge Handbook of Anthropology and Reproduction, edited by Sallie Han and Cecilia Tomori, eds. New York: Routledge. (Link)