This essay was originally published on Savage Minds on 15 March 2016.
This call to action was written by Adriana Garriga-López, Ph.D. (Kalamazoo College), and Shir Lerman, M.A., M.P.H., PhD Candidate (University of Connecticut), with Jessica Mulligan, Ph.D. (Providence College), Alexa Dietrich, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Wagner College), Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, PhD, MPHE, MCHES (University of Puerto Rico), and Ricardo Vargas-Molina, M.A. (University of Puerto Rico), through the auspices of the American Anthropological Association’s Zika Interest Group, as part of the rapid response mechanism of the Society for Medical Anthropology. The authors are members of the Society for Medical Anthropology’s Zika Interest Group.