Alejandro Cerón – The Anthropology Newspaper

Outbreak Mitigation at the Crossroads: Technical Expertise, Political Imperatives, and the Myth of John Snow

Outbreak mitigation always operates within a tension between technical expertise (lo técnico) and political imperatives (lo político). My conversations with epidemiologists in Guatemala over the past …

Post date 5th June 2026
Post author By Alejandro Cerón

Sanitary cordons in COVID-19: experience and the object of epidemiological interventions by Alejandro Cerón

What is the object of epidemiological interventions during an epidemic? Is it the virus, the disease, the fear, the chaos, or the threat to security? And what is the objective…

Post date 4th August 2020
Post author By Alejandro Cerón

Practices, knowledge, and the next pandemic: a lesson from a failed participatory public health intervention by Alejandro Cerón

My time doing public health work in Guatemala in the 1990s and early 2000s has shaped how I think about emergencies. Working for an underresourced health system, my…

Post date 31st May 2020
Post author By Alejandro Cerón