Critical Anthropology for Global Health Study Group: membership
(Please note: There was a glitch in the membership submission process - if you submitted your name and do not see it here, please resubmit. I am trying to salvage the lost data, but some is gone for good --Ben)
Cesar Abadia-Barrero, DMD. DMSc.
Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
cesar_abadia@post.harvard.edu
Health Care Policy; Inequality; Structural Violence; Colombia; Public Health
Mary K. Anglin
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of Kentucky
manglin@uky.edu
Ethnography of North America; Health inequalities and social activism; Intersectionality theory; Women's reproductive cancers; HIV
Hans A. Baer
Professor
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Little Rock, AR 72204
Tel (501) 569-3406 (o); 501-568-5369 (w)
habaer@ualr.edu
Critical medical anthropology theory; Medical pluralism in US and UK; African-American religion; Sociopolitical and religious life in East Germany; Mormonism
Beverly Bennett
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Adrian College
110 S. Madison St.
Adrian MI 49221
Tel. (517) 264-3964
bbennett@adrian.edu
South America, principally the Amazon and the Andes; South Asia; Acculturation, resistance, and cultural identity; Indigenous peoples and traditional systems of knowledge; Utilization of multiple systems of medicine
Lesley Bennett
Seva Foundation
Sight Programs
1786 Fifth St.
Berkeley, CA 94710
(510) 845-7382 ext.316
lesley@seva.org
Libby Bogdan-Lovis
Assistant Director
Center for Ethics and Humanities in the Life Sciences
Michigan State University
C 221 East Fee Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
Tel. (517) 432-5185
bogdanlo@msu.edu
Medicalization of birth; Midwifery; Evidence-based medicine; Bioethics; Doctor-patient interaction
Mariah Boyd-Boffa
MPH Candidate, International Public Health
Boston University
mariahbb@bu.edu
Northeastern Brazil, Socio-economic determinants of health, Critical-interpretive medical anthropology
James R. Brennan
Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology at University of Massachusetts
Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy
Dept. of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
The Sage Colleges
785 Pecks Road
Pittsfield, MA 01201
Tel. (W) 518-244-2058
(H) 413-443-0688
brennj@sage.edu or JBre644657@aol.com
Critical Medical Anthropology and Pain; Pain and homelessness; Pain, gender and workspace design
Caitlin Brune
MPH Candidate, UC-Berkeley School of Public Health, Maternal & Child Health
Room #307 International House
2299 Piedmont Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-2320
Tel. (510) 664-2615
cbrune@uclink.berkeley.edu
Prevention of HIV in women & children; the role of philanthropic foundations, multilaterals and NGOs in effecting
change; the coupling of effectiveness on the ground with higher-level advocacy and
policy work
Debra A. Budiani
Ph.D. student
Department of Anthropology
Michigan State University
Tel. (517) 381-9864
Fax. (517) 381-9865
budianid@pilot.msu.edu
Heide Castaneda
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida
hcastane@cas.usf.edu
Transnational labor migration; political economy of health; health inequalities; policy; Germany; U.S/Mexico Border; European Union
Xochitl Castaneda
Institute for Health Policy Studies
School of Medicine
University of California San Francisco
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936
Tel 510-524-6787
Fax 415-476-0705
xochitlc@aol.com
Migration of Latinos in the US and Health of undocumented populations; Farmworker's health; AIDS, STIs, and infectious diseases; Access to health care services for low-income populations; Evaluation of health strategies and community programs
Arachu Castro, Ph. D., MPH
Program in Infectious Disease & Social Change
Dept. Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115 USA
Tel. 617-432-6038
Fax. 617-432-6045
Arachu_Castro@hms.harvard.edu
Political economy of health; Poverty and Infectious Disease; Health inequalities and Health Systems Reform; Reproductive health; Latin America
Giovanna Cavatorta
student
University of Siena - EHESS
giovannacavatorta@virgilio.it
gender social.suffering humanitarianism violence refugees
Lesley Cerny
PhD Candidate
Simon Fraser University
lac5@sfu.ca
Critical medical anthropology, colonialism, indigenous peoples, critical public health, HIV
Sara Corben de Romero
University of Sussex
s.corben@talk21.com
Sexual health; reproductive health; Africa; Sexually transmitted illness; South Asia
Dara Culhane
Associate Professor
Simon Fraser University,
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, B.C.
V5S 1A6 Canada
Tel: (604) 291-5479
Fax: (604) 291-5799
culhane@sfu.ca
Critical medical anthropology; indigenous peoples and nation states; Aboriginal peoples of Canada; anthropology of colonialism; feminist anthropology
Shom Dasgupta
Graduate Student
Northwestern University-Feinberg School
shomndasgupta@gmail.com
Mesoamerican indigenous peoples, child malnutrition and development, diabetes, ethnomedicine, political economy
Heather Davis
GWU School of Public Health
heatherdavis1@yahoo.com
USA, Europe, UK, Eastern Europe, and Asia. Obesity; eating disorders; sexual health; alcohol abuse
Gina Hunder De Bessa
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
911 S. Linden St.
Normal, IL 61761
Tel (309) 454-8231
ghbessa@students.uiuc.edu
Reproductive Health and Rights; Sexuality and Gender; Contraception (esp surgical sterilization); Community Health Services
Melissa A. Denmark
Master's Graduate Student
University of Florida
Tel. (352) 335-8154
mdenmark@ufl.edu
Direct-entry midwifery in Florida; Homebirth; Doula care
John M. Donahue, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Trinity University
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
San Antonio, TX 78212
Tel (210) 999-8508
jdonahue@trinity.edu
http://www.trinity.edu/departments/soc_anthro/faculty.html
Popular participation in primary health care; Health promoter training; Water and health; Latin America; Rio Grande Valley
Christopher A. Douglas
c1douglas@hotmail.com
Re-evaluation of Health Care Policy; Anthropological Theory; Epistemology of Health; Latin America; Caribbean
Elaine M. Drew
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology,
NIMH Pre-Doctoral Trainee in Behavioral Science
University of Kentucky
160 Bonnie Brae #B
Lexington, KY 40508
Tel. (W) (859) 323-0035
Tel. (H) (859) 389-9138
emdrew@aol.com
political economy of health, illness, health care; anthropology of reproduction; feminist anthropology; participatory action research; Central Appalachia/Eastern Kentucky
Daria L. Dykes
University of Houston Graduate Program in Anthropology
daria.dykes@mail.uh.edu
commoditization of health, non-profits, social barriers to care, urbanization, minority ethinic groups
Delia Easton
Behavioral Scientist
HIV division, CDC
Center for Disease Control
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
Tel. (404) 639-1912
dfe4@cdc.gov
Puerto Rican youth and HIV risk; Documenting and addressing structural barriers to HIV prevention domestically and internationally; Understanding the impact of welfare reform on inner-city women's health; The effects of racism on health in the U.S.
Shellie Ellis, M.A.
Assistant Director
Women's Health Center of Excellence
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
P.O. Box 573050
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-3050
Tel. (336) 713-4221
sellis@wfubmc.edu
Women's health; Health disparities; Community health; Health policy
Etaka Eyong Elsie
University of Douala, Department of Anthropology and Sociology
eyongetakr@yahoo.com
Traditional medicine,local health workers,private health care,health sector services and financing,FirstAid services in rural areas.
Michael C. Ennis-McMillan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Tel (518) 580-5425 Fax (518) 580-5429
mennis@skidmore.edu
Water & Health; Political Ecology; Identity Politics; Mexico; Latin America
Susan Erikson
Lecturer & Director, Global Health Affairs
University of Denver
serikson@du.edu
Global Health and International Affairs; Globalization; Reproduction; Political Economy; Critical Ethnography
Paul Edward Farmer, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor in Social Medicine
Director, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel. (617) 432-3718
Fax. (617) 432-2565
pihpaul@aol.com
Infectious disease; Haiti; Peru; Russia; Cuba
Ellen E. Foley
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology
Michigan State University
3019 Woodruff Ave. #12
Lansing, MI 48912
Tel. (517) 374-7369 (home), (517) 355-9300 (work)
foleyell@pilot.msu.edu
Structural Adjustment; Privatization of health care systems; Local Knowledge; Gender; Senegal/West Africa
Dores Jay-Pang Freeman
Deputy Director
Valley Association for Independent Living, Inc. - VAIL
2714 Blue Ridge Drive, Edinburg, TX 78539
Tel. (W) (956) 781-7733
Tel. (H) (956) 287-7212
jerdortx@aol.comor djpang@medicine.tamu.edu
Maternal and child health; Anthropology in medical education; Rural health; International health; Wars and peace
Yumi Furusawa
Doctoral Student
University of Tokyo
2717 Pamoa RD RM 301
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
Tel./Fax. 011-1-808-988-7551
yumibaer@kc4.so-net.ne.jp
j. hale-gallardo
Phd Candidate
University of Florida
jhalegallardo@ufl.edu
politics of culture, governmentality, medicalization, indigeneity, Mexico
Nicole Gallicchio
Doctoral Candidate
University of Chicago
nicoleg@uchicago.edu
1. Reproductive Health, 2. Access to healthcare, 3. The conflict between a global, "Western" approach to healthcare and "traditional" practices and beliefs about sickness and health, 4. Health disparities in the U.S., 5. Training medical students and physicians to be culturally competent
Council on Anthropology and Reproduction, Doulas of North America, Anthropology and the Environment
Denise Geraci
Doctoral student
CUNY Graduate Center
23-57 33rd Street #B3
Astoria, NY 11105
Tel. (718)721-2796
denilos@aol.com
US; reproductive health; immigrant health; agricultural workers; Latin America; the body
Monica H. Green
Associate Professor of History
Department of History, Duke University
Department of History
Duke University
226 Carr Bldg., Box 90719
Durham, NC 27708-0719
Tel. (919) 684-2439
Fax (919) 681-7670
mhgreen@duke.edu
Women's healthcare in premodern Europe; History of western medicine; History of gynecology (up through the present day); Gender and medicine (including medical personnel, creation of medical knowledge); "Race" and medicine
Brendan Hart
Student, Princeton University
bhart@princeton.edu
Refugee health, disability studies (autism), humanitarian assistance during armed conflicts, Central Africa
Jacqueline Hart, Ph.D.
VA Postdoctoral Fellow in Health Services Research
Division of General Internal Medicine Fellow
University of Pennsylvania
1207 Blockley Hall
423 Guardian Drive
Philadelphia PA 19104-6021
Tel. 215-898-8488
jacque@mail.med.upenn.edu
morality and health
unintended/implicit meanings, uses and consequences of wellness ideology
(an extreme emphasis on individual responsibility for health and prevention); the use of wellness ideology and the meaning of health and illness in the
workplace; sociological and moral dimensions of health care resource allocation; political economy of resource allocation as it impacts health; bioethics and social justice
Seth McElwee Holmes
Graduate Student in Anthropology and Student of Medicine
UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley
127 Behr Ave
San Francisco, CA 94131
(415) 664-2622
smholm@itsa.ucsf.edu
Social justice; Social suffering; Latin America; Health development programs
and funding; Liberation theology
Sarah Horton
Ph.D. candidate
University of New Mexico
205 Tulane SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Tel (505) 255-2278
sbh16@unm.edu
Immigrants and refugees in the health care system; Health care access; Cultural citizenship; Race and ethnicity; Latinos, Southwest
Sel J. Hwahng
Research Investigator
NDRI/Columbia University
hwahng@gmail.com
mass rape systems; transgender; Asia; Africa; Latin America
Benedicte Ingstad
Professor, Department of Community Medicine
University of Oslo Norway
International Editor, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
Corresponding Editor, Social Science and Medicine
benedicte.ingstad@samfunnsmed.uio.no
Household care for disabled and elderly people; AIDS; Traditional medicine; Southern Africa (Botswana in particular); Norway
Craig R. Janes, Ph.D.
Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences
Simon Fraser University
cjanes@sfu.ca
Applied medical anthropology; Social inequality, stress, and health; Anthropological perspectives in public health; The organization of work and its impact on health and well-being; The impact of modernity on indigenous health care systems; Globalization and primary health care; Community-orientations in public health and health education; Himalayan South Asia (Tibet), China and Taiwan, Mongolia, Pacific Islands
(Polynesia), and urban American communities.
Sheila Jeffers, Ph.D.
Florida State University College of Medicine
sheila.jefferes@med.fsu.edu
Breast Cancer, Alzheimers's disease, health care messages, patient/provider communication
Luis Justo, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Bioethics Chair
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Argentina
Catamarca 140
(8324) Cipolletti
Rio Negro
Argentina
54-299-4791129
luisjusto@topmail.com.ar
Social determinants of health; Health and equity; Latinoamerican/south american health conditions; Debt, globalisation and health; Bioethic priorities for America Latina
Emiko Kasahara
Doctoral student in Counseling Psychology
Northern Arizona University
2800 S. Highland Mesa Rd. #15-202
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Tel. (520) 774-6189
ek7@dana.ucc.nau.edu
Mental health; Severe Mental Illness; Brain Damage; Memory loss; Schizophrenia; Japan, Asia, Europe
Yasmina Katsulis
Graduate Student
Yale University
51 Hillhouse Ave. New Haven, CT 06520
Tel (203) 865-1314
blackbryr2@mindspring.com
political economy; HIV/AIDS; Sexuality; gender; U.S. - Mexico border
Lilyan Kay, CNM FNP MPH
Instructor/Assistant Professor, Colleges of Nursing and Medicine
PhD student, Department of Anthropology
University of South Florida
lkay@cas.usf.edu
Welfare reform; public housing relocation and maternal child health; adolescent reproductive health; infant mortality; uninsured children's health; female dominated professions
Jim Yong Kim, MD, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Partners In Health
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
JimKimPIH@aol.com
Political economy of health; Infectious disease; Tuberculosis; HIV; Pharmaceuticals
Nick King
Ph.D. Student
Dept. of the History of Science
Harvard University
Science Center 235
Cambridge MA, 02138
Tel (617) 495-8757
nbking@fas.harvard.edu
History of medicine in the United States; Medical anthropology; Globalization; Commodification and Consumer Culture
Tina M. Knight
Director of Program Management
Development Coordinator
Sustainable Sciences Institute
474 Valencia St., Suite 120
San Francisco, CA 94116
Tel. (415) 431-2410
Fax. (415) 431-7768
tmknight@ssilink.org
http://www.ssilink.org/
Erin Koch
Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
erin.koch@uky.edu
Infectious disease; Incarceration and health inequalities; Biomedical standardization; Pharmaceuticals; former Soviet Union and the United States
Sonia ter Kuile
McGill University
saterkuile@yahoo.ca
power/resistance, violence and health, the migrant/immigrant/refugee experience
Nicole Laborde
MPH, Doctoral student
City University of New York
Graduate Center
201 W 108 St. #28
New York, NY 10025
(212) 749-4727
nicole_laborde@yahoo.com
United States; Latin America,; Motherhood,; Welfare system; Immigration
Heather Young Leslie, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor, Department of Anthropology
University of Hawai'i
hyleslie@hawaii.edu
http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hyleslie/
Oceania, Pacific, Biomedicine, Modernity, Diabetes
Betty Wolder Levin, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Tel (212) 866-4602 (h) (718) 951-5663 (w) Fax: (718) 951-4670
bwlevin@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Bioethics; Biomedicine; Maternal and child health; End-of-life issues; AIDS
Shao-hua Liu
Graduate Student
Columbia University
shaohualiu@gmail.com
Health; Poverty; Development; Ethnicity; China
Pushpinder Pelia Lubana
Consultant, Ford Foundation Small Grants Program on Research on
Sexuality and Sexual Behavior (National Institute of Mental Health and
NeurosSciences, Bangalore, India).
Instructor of Medical Anthropology
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shatin, Hong Kong
Apt 7B, Block 3
8A Old Peak Road
Midlevels, Hong Kong
Tel. (852)-25255513
plubana@netvigator.com
Minority health; Substance abuse, violence, and AIDS; sexuality and sexual health issues in India in the context of AIDS; Coping strategies, social support and adaptive responses to AIDS; access to health care of disadvantaged groups.
Erin Madriago MD
OHSU
madriago@ohsu.edu
Children's health, cardiovascular health and disease, social justice, southeast asia, socio-economic inequalities
American Association of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, Oregon Pediatric Society
Robert Marlin
Graduate student
Department of Anthropology
Rutgers University
School of Medicine
State University of New York at Stony Brook
54 Grant St.
Lexington, MA 02420-3705
Tel: 508 477-6731;
rpmarlin@rci.rutgers.edu
Political economy of health in Southern Africa; Gender relations; Constructions of illness among displaced populations; Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe; HIV/AIDS in Southern and Eastern Africa
Wende Elizabeth Marshall
Postdoctoral Fellow
Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University School of
Medicine
40 Temple Street, Suite 1B
New Haven, CT 06510
203-764-4351 office
203-772-3116 home
wende.marshall@yale.edu or
wmarshal@mindspring.com
Medical anthropology: the body, anthropology of healing and discourses on
health and disease; critical analysis of bio-medicine; Political anthropology: nationalism, colonialism/postcolonialism, decolonization,
and anthropology of margins and minorities; community studies: health/disease
and political empowerment, race, criminality and disease in urban communities; Race theory: constructions of race in Oceania and the U.S.; race and anthropological
theory; American Colonial and Postcolonial Territories; Post-Industrial Urban United States: North Philadelphia, Central Harlem,
New Haven.
Iveris Luz Martinez, Ph.D
Assistant Professor, Course Director for Medicine & Society
Florida International University College of Medicine
Iveris.Martinez@fiu.edu
aging & the life course, immigration, Latin America, social ties, access to health services
Association of Anthropology and Gerontology, Society for Applied Anthropology, Gerontological Society of America, Congress on Family Research
Jonathan N. Maupin
Graduate Student
State University of New York at Albany
75 Pinewood Ave 1st Floor
Albany, NY 12208
Tel. (518) 482-6826
jm2711@csc.albany.edu
Health systems in Mesoamerica; The influence of national development and
programs and their effect on local development; Community participation Identity
of health promoters; Government toleration of programs in different periods
of political stability
Gregory G. Maskarinec
Assistant Professor
Department of Family Practice and Community Health
John A. Burns School of Medicine
University of Hawaii
Social Sciences Building 313
Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822
Phone: 808-956-7697
Fax: 808-956-4893
gregorym@hawaii.edu
http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/anth/faculty/maskarinec/maskarinec.htm
Nepal; South and Central Asia; Micronesia
Marcia Good Maust
Visiting Researcher
C.I.R. Unidad de Ciencias Sociales
Universidad Autonoma de Yucatán
Calle 61, #525 entre 66 y 68
Colonia Centro
C.P. 97000, Mérida
Yucatán, Mexico
Tel: +(52) (99) 24-27-67
gmaust@mda.com.mx
Social Science of Medicine; Anthropology of Birth: Cesareans and Midwifery; Gender; Qualitative Methods; Mexico and Latin America
Krista Maxwell
PhD candidate
University of Toronto
krista.maxwell@utoronto.ca
Anthropology of public health/ health care systems;
racisms and social construction of 'race';
Aboriginal peoples and Canadian mental health policy;
sexualities and sexual health; Nigeria
Cathy Hodge McCoid
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology
Central Missouri State University
mccoid@comcast.net
Environment and health; violence against women; the world system; the United States; India
Brian McKenna
Ingham County Health Department (Lansing, MI) and
Michigan State University
5303 S. Cedar Ave.
Lansing MI 48911
hcamackenna@ingham.org or joonmck@gateway.net
Environmental health; Primary health care; Critical pedagogy; Critical public health; Michigan
Athena McLean, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work Central Michigan University
139 Anspach Hall Mount Pleasant, MI 48858 Tel: (517) 774-3410 (work) Fax
(and home tel): 517-337-3244
Athena.H.McLean@cmich.edu
Social construction and production of medical knowledge and conditions; Institutionalized settings; Psychiatric consumer movements and community mental health; Nursing home research with dementia; Bioethics.
Jonathan S. Metcalfe, MA
Graduate student in medical anthropology, public health
Case Western Reserve University
jsm42@case.edu
political and structural violence; political economy of AIDS; Zimbabwe
Todd Meyers
Research Ethnographer
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
2700 Lighthouse Point East
Suite 210
Baltimore, MD 21224
Tel. (410) 502-7023
Fax: (410) 502-7028
tmeyers@jhmi.edu
Urban United States; Papua New Guinea; Social structural violence,; Sexually transmitted diseases; HIV and HCV
Joyce V. Millen
Director, Institute for Health and Social Justice
Research Associate, Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 432-5258
jvmillen@aol.com
Health and Healing in Africa (with a concentration on West Africa); Health Consequences of Global Political Economic Processes such as the globalization
of 'free' trade; Health Consequences of the Rise in Wealth,Power and Influence of Transnational
Corporations; Infectious Disease (distribution of and research for); Unequal Access to health care and health technologies
Michael J. Montoya
Doctoral Candidate/ABD
Stanford University
Department of Anthropology
208 Madison Street
De Forest, WI 53532
Tel. (608) 846-8941
mmontoya@stanford.edu
Race and ethnicity; Political Economy of Disease; Genetic Epidemiology (Complex
Diseases, esp. Diabetes); Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Human
Genetics; US/Mexico
Susan Morfit
Doctoral Student
University of South Florida
Tel(813) 991-6529
morfit@luna.cas.usf.edu
Health care delivery; Health care systems; Primary health care; Managed care; Latin America and US
Lynn M. Morgan
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Sociology & Anthropology
Mount Holyoke College
50 College Street
South Hadley, MA 01075-1426
phone: 413-538-2108
lmmorgan@mtholyoke.edu
Central America; Andes; reproductive ethics; political economy of health; international health
Kei Muraki
Grad student/Producer
University of Central Florida
keimuraki@yahoo.com
Epidemiology, Asia, Religious beliefs influence on medicine/health issue, meditation effects on the body/health, Warfare and its effects on society/culutre infrastructure and health care
Eunice Nakamura
MS, Social Anthropology (theme: health policy to workers people) -
1990/1995
PhD, Social Anthropology (theme children depression) - 2000
Sao Paulo University (USP), Social Anthropology Department.
Rua Marechal Deodoro,
267 - CEP: 08674-070
Suzano, Sao Paulo
Brasil
eunice_nakamura@hotmail.com
Medical anthropology; Mental health; Childhood; Health promotion policies
Laura Nervia, Ph.D.
Mission Viejo, CA
Phone: (949) 470-0243
lauranervi@worldnet.att.net
Globalization, Free trade agreements and Environment Health; Health sector reform, privatization and inequality in Latin-American countries; Health impacts of structural adjustments and privatization of health services
in Latin-American countries; International cooperation in health: from technocracy to social commitment.
Mark Nichter
Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Haury Building
Tucson AZ 85721
Mnichter@u.arizona.edu
International health and development; Political ecology; The politics of responsibility; Tobacco consumption and youth; Pharmaceutical practice; South and South East Asia, USA
Mimi Nichter
Professor of Anthropology
University of Arizona
Haury Building
Tucson AZ 85721
MimiN@u.arizona.edu
Adolescent health; Body image; Tobacco; Women and development; India, USA
Anna Marie Nicolaysen
Northern Arizona University
2800 S. Highland Mesa Road 15-202
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
Phone: 520-213-8628
amn3@dana.ucc.nau.edu
political economy; health; nutrition; Latin-America; Africa
Lorena Núñez
Social Anthropologist (M.A.)
Lecturer of the Department of Obstetricts
Faculty of Medicine
University of Chile.
José Manuel Infante Nº 2452.
Ñuñoa, Santiago.
Chile
Tel. (562) 639-5720
lnc@netline.cl
Migration and health; Body, body/mind; Reproductive health; Ethnicity and health
Maureen O'Dougherty
Research Associate
University of Minnesota
modoughe@umn.edu
gender, reproductive rights, physical activity, mental health, inequality, Brazil, US
Center for Victims of Torture, Council on Anthropology and Reproduction
Amalia Pesantes
PhD Student
University of Pittsburg
amalia.pesantes@gmail.com
andes, indigenous groups of the amazon, right to health, intercultural health, post colonialism
James Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
University of Washington
School of Public Health
jamespf@u.washington.edu
Mozambique; HIV/AIDS; Political Economy; Inequality; Pentecostalism
Apryle Pickering
Graduate Student
University of Montana
apryle.pickering@umontana.edu
Health disparities, critical medical anthropology, feminist analysis of the household, fertility and reproduction
Saint Patrick Hospital Institute of Medicine and Humanities. University of Montana Masters in Public Health Program.
Ivo Quaranta
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Torino
Viale dei Campioni, 3
00144 Rome
Italy
i_quaranta@hotmail.com
AIDS in Cameroon (North-West Province); The cultural context of anthropology of biomedicine; Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
James Quesada, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, California 94132
Tel: 415-338-1633/415-338-0530
Fax: 415-338-0530
jquesada@sfsu.edu
political and structural violence; social suffering; peace and conflict studies; transnational migration; Central America and North American inner-city
Nancy Redfern-Vance, RN, CNM, Ph.D.
Nurse-Anthropologist
State of Florida Dept. of Health
2786 Blairstone Court
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Tel (850) 245-4444 # 2165
nanpanther@earthlink.net
Women's health; Sexual harassment; Gender violence; Narrative research; Health policy
Kathryn Rhine
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
Brown University
Kathryn_Rhine@Brown.edu
Nigeria, HIV/AIDS, Ethics, Marriage, Reproduction
African Studies Association, Fulbright Association, Population Association of America, Really Awesome Times (RAT, Inc.)
Annemiek Richters
Women and Health Care,
Leiden University Medical Center
Poortgebouw-Zuid 4th floor, P.O. Box 9600
2300 RC Leiden, The Netherlands
Tel. + 31 (0)71-5264449
Fax + 31 (0)71-5248200
(W): womanhealth@lumc.nl
(H): J.M.Richters@lumc.nl
Michele Rivkin-Fish, Ph.D.
Department of Anthropology
University of Kentucky
211 Lafferty Hall
Lexington, KY 40506
phone: 606 257-9642
fax: 606 323-1959
mrivk2@pop.uky.edu
women's health; sexual politics; post-socialist reform; privatization of health care; Russia
Molly Robertson
Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, Brown University
MPH Candidate in International Health, University of Washington
mlouise@u.washington.edu
Constructions of race; maternal health care; HIV/AIDS care; systems research
Robin Root
Assistant Professor
City University of New York
rroot@nyc.rr.com
religion and AIDS, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, gender, poverty and AIDS
Other Info/Interests: How religion mediates/mitigates/exacerbates structural risks, including risks of HIV/AIDS; the rise of local and international faith-based organizations in Southern Africa; role of Islamic revivalism in Malaysia in helping female migrants to frame and respond to a host of new risks, including attributions of high HIV risk.
Joelle Rosser
UCSD recent graduate (B.S. & B.A.)
JoelleRosser@gmail.com
East Africa; environmental degredation and community health; higher education and health; women's health; poverty
Elimu Africa, a small grassroots org working with education in Tanzania
Carolyn Rouse
Assistant Professor
Princeton University
Department of Anthropology
Princeton University
100 Aaron Burr Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1011
crouse@caas.ucla.edu
North America; Race; Agency; religion; bioethics
Danae Roumis
Student
University of Chicago
dkroumis@uchicago.edu
Malaria Prevention, Access and Distribution of Preventive Materials and Education, Tanzania, Greece
Hung-Yu Ru
PhD. Candidate
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa
hungyu@hawaii.edu
Critical Medical Anthropology, Ethnomedicine, History of Medicine, Indigenous Health, Infectious Disease
Barbara Rylko-Bauer, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
Michigan State University
2825 E. Fulton
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
Tel. (616) 957-2466
basiarylko@juno.com
Reproductive health issues; Health inequality in the U.S.; Applied anthropology; Use of social science in public policy; Holocaust studies
Monica Schoch-Spana, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies
Johns Hopkins University
111Market Place, Suite 850
Baltimore, MD 21202
Tel (410) 223-1662
mschoch@jhsph.edu
North American ethnography; Anthropology of science and technology; Weapons of mass destruction; Community responses to epidemics
Monique N. Sessler, MD
Practicing family physician
113 Nevada Circle,
Williamsburg, Va 23188
tel: 1 757 5654906
msessler@widomaker.com
Wealth and income disparities within and between countries; The unequal distribution of health resources; Entrenched poverty and structural violence and social suffering; Brazil, Peru, South and Central America, Europe.; Affiliations: American Academy of Family Physicians, Committee on Health
Rights for the Americas, Nicaragua network.
Salma Shariff-Marco, MPH
Director, Colorectal Cancer and Nutrition/Physical Activity
American Cancer Society, Eastern Division
19 W. 56th Street
New York, NY 10019
(212) 237-3915
sshariff@cancer.org
Health disparities based on race/ethnicity; Cultural competency; South Asian diaspora (primarily North America and United Kingdom); Asian American health
Merrill Singer, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Chief of Research
Hispanic Health Council
175 Main St..
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel (860) 527-0856 # 270 (or Secretary # 253--Migdalia), (860) 232-0753
(home)
Fax: (860) 724-0437
Anthro8566@Aol.Com
Medical anthropology theory; Inner city health; Political economy of health; Substance abuse, AIDS; Ethnic minority populations
Adriana Smith, MPH
Boston University
adrsmith@yahoo.com
Latin America; Indigenous rights and access to healthcare; immigration; Women's reproductive health; applied anthropology
Sandy Smith-Nonini
Mellon-Sawyer Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2030 Englewood Ave
Durham, NC 27705
Tel/Fax. 919-286-7396
scsmith@email.unc.edu
Relations between neoliberal econ. forces and occupational risks for Latino
farmworkers and factory workers in rural North Carolina Cultural politics
of institutional responses to TB
Kenyon Stebbins
Associate Prof of Anthropology
Dept. of Sociology & Anthropology
West Virginia University
PO Box 6326
Morgantown, WV 26506
Tel (3-4) 293-5801 # 3211
kstebbin@wvu.edu
tobacco policy locally & globally (with emphasis on Latin America); anti-tobacco advocacy & activism; political economy of health in rural Mexico; garbage imperialism (health effects of overconsumption); Latin America & USA
Susan Studebaker
RNC, CNM, MS, CHES
Midwifery Institute
sstudebaker17@hotmail.com
maternal child health, women's health issues, Central America, medically underserved persons in the US, reproductive health issues
Cooperativa Maria Luisa Ortiz, Global Health Council, Council on Nursing and Anthropology, International Alliance of Midwives, American College of Nurse-Midwives
Brigette Thompson MA
Central European University
brigette.thompson@gmail.com
anthropology of the body, pregnancy and childbirth, sexual/reproductive health, community health, stigma
Caroline Todd
Research Assistant, PhD candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of New Mexico
4801 San Mateo Ln NE #381
Albuquerque, NM, 87109
Tel (505) 878-9185
NicaLibre@aol.com
Managed care; Medicaid/medically indigent patient populations; Healthcare providers' strategies in the healthcare marketplace; United States; Latin America
Fouzieyha Towghi
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of California at San Francisco
24 Homestead
San Francisco, CA 94114
Phone: 415-642-8099
Ftowghi@hotmail.com
Traditional Medicine Use in Reproductive Health in Balchistan, Pakistan,
and South Asia; Development Impact on role of traditional midwives; Integration of qualitative and quantitative methods in public health operations
research; Gender issues across the life cycle; Identifying mechanisms for effective, respectful, informed incorporation
of traditional practices and systems in the modern health care; Role of men in promoting women's reproductive health
Pat Townsend
200 Kings Hwy
Amherst, NY 14226
Tel. (716) 839-1912
pkt2@earthlink.net
Environmental health, Multinational corporations, Maternal and child health,
Refugees, Papua New Guinea, United States
Joan Valas
Applied Anthropology
Teachers College/Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Columbia University
630 West 168th St
College of Physicians and Surgeons 10-508
212-305-3031
New York, NY, 10031
Home Address (preferred)
7 Pine Drive
Park Ridge, NJ, 07656
jv16@columbia.edu
Effects of corporate led globalization; Privatization of health services; Impact of for profit health care; Effects of armed conflict and military intervention - forced migration; Unequal distribution of health resources
Elaine Waldman
Research Analyst
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
ewaldman@ph.lacounty.gov
Infectious disease, Occupational safety and health, Community health workers, Homeless health, Los Angeles
Downtown Women's Action Coalition, Southern California Coalition on Occupational Safety and Health
Maurice Washington
student
City University of New York
metwashington@hotmail.com
economically depressed communities
Rachel Webb
Doctoral Candidate
Binghamton University
rwebb2@binghamton.edu
violence, healing, human rights, knowledge-production, medical anthropology
AAA, BPI
Jonathan Welch
1510 Tripp Circle #404 Botkin
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 264-1042
Fax: (603) 971-0474
jrwelch@students.wisc.edu
Claire Wendland, MD
Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
U Massachusetts at Amherst
29 Summer St.
Amherst MA 01002
Tel. (413) 549-0260
wendland@anthro.umass.edu
Inequality, poverty and health care; Cross-cultural medical ethics; Biomedicine in non-Western settings; East Africa; Feminist theory in anthropology; Medical history
Linda M. Whiteford, Ph.D., MPH
Professor and Chair
University of South Florida
Department of Anthropology, SOC 107
Tampa, FL. 33620
Tel (813) 974-0818
lindaw@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
Infectious/communicable disease; Medical anthropology; International health; Caribbean; South America
Michael Wilson, MPH
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
mikael.wilson@gmail.com
AIDS and Anthropology; Africa/South America
Summer Wood, MPH
Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Anthropology
New York University
sjwood@nyu.edu
East Africa; social and cultural impacts of new biomedical technologies; effects of neoliberal economic policies on health systems; social movements for health as a human right; local media and health messages
Sasha Yakhkind
Boston University/Children's Hospital
sashkind@gmail.com
Themes: Mental Health, Infectious Disease, Child Health, Disease Prevention, Geographic Areas: Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Central America, South Africa, India.
Kristin Yarris
Graduate Student
UCLA Anthropology
keyarris@ucla.edu
women's health, Central and Latin America, community organizing, mental health, idioms of distress
Accion Medica - Nicaraguan NGO, Witness for Peace - U.S. NGO, Intercambio de Salud - Honduran NGO