{"id":220119,"date":"2024-10-16T15:22:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=220119"},"modified":"2024-10-16T15:22:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T19:22:15","slug":"anthropologist-cesar-abadia-barrero-awarded-2024-alejandro-angel-escobar-national-prize-in-social-and-human-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/10\/anthropologist-cesar-abadia-barrero-awarded-2024-alejandro-angel-escobar-national-prize-in-social-and-human-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthropologist C\u00e9sar Abad\u00eda Barrero awarded 2024 Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar National Prize in Social and Human Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">C\u00e9sar Abad\u00eda Barrero, associate professor of anthropology, was awarded the 2024 Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar National Prize in Social and Human Sciences in Bogot\u00e1, Colombia, on Wednesday, Oct. 2.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">He received the honor for his research detailed in the book \u201cHealth in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital.\u201d<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The book investigates the effects of private sector involvement in Colombia&#8217;s health system during the 1990s, focusing on El Materno, the country\u2019s oldest maternity and neonatal health center.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar Foundation presents the National Science and Solidarity Awards annually to recognize the most innovative and socially impactful scientific work by Colombian scientists and organizations dedicated to solidarity causes.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Established nearly 70 years ago, the award is named for businessman Alejandro \u00c1ngel Escobar, who created these incentives inspired by the Nobel Prizes and the Rockefeller Foundation.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335559738&quot;:240,&quot;335559739&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C\u00e9sar Abad\u00eda Barrero was presented with the award for his book \u201cHealth in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care at a Colombian Maternity Hospital.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":220120,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2465,2226],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-220119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anthropology","category-clas"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 17:56:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220121,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220119\/revisions\/220121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/220120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220119"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=220119"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=220119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}