Kindra McQuillan

Kindra McQuillan

Kindra McQuillan

Alumni

Academic interests

Kindra researches crossroads between economics, environmental change, and health in rural and indigenous America. Her interests also include attitudes about pain and grief in global health interventions, and governmentality in global health.

Biography

Kindra McQuillan's interest in global health ignited at the University of Montana, where she studied intersections between culture, the environment, and health for her BA in cultural anthropology.

Working as a journalist several years later, she rediscovered this interest while reporting on environmental justice and public health in rural and tribal Montana. This time, she followed her interest to OSU's Global Health PhD program.

Spotlight

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Old mines still plague Montana's Clark Fork

July 10, 2015

Old mines still plague Montana's Clark Fork

Why one of the nation's largest Superfund river sites can't address pollution from abandoned mines. Read full story at High Country News.