global health

Dr. Elise Berman

September 28, 2018 by Elise Berman
department: Anthropology
Elise Berman

Elise Berman

Assistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

I am a linguistic, cultural, and psychological anthropologist. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] My work focuses on the politics of language and exchange, the social construction of age and childhood, the role of deception in social life, and variation in understandings of truth and knowledge across cultures and contexts. Concerned with the cultural nature of human development, I investigate how different childrearing ideologies and language socialization practices influence not only cultural reproduction and social change but also inequality at the local level—in the classroom—and at the global level—in universal human rights discourse on issues such as corporal punishment and child labor. My next project will be an analysis of racialization and code-switching among Marshallese immigrants in Arkansas classrooms.
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keywords: global health

Dr. David Dalton

September 28, 2018 by David Dalton
department: Languages and Culture Studies

David DaltonAssistant Professor
Department of Language and Culture Studies

I am especially interested in how science and technology interface with constructs of race and gender in Mexico and throughout the world. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’][/read]

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keywords: global healthhealth technologyrace and gender

Dr. Karen Flint

September 28, 2018 by Karen Flint
department: History

Associate Professor
Department of History

Author of Healing Traditions: African Medicine, Cultural Exchange, and Competition in South Africa, 1820-1948 (Ohio University Press, 2008). [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] She’s written a number of articles and chapters on African medicine and healing and is currently examining how biomedicine and doctors both empowered and disrupted the system of South African indenture. She is particularly interested in determining the conditions that embolden whistle-blowers or enabled doctors and administrators to nudge reform in a system overwhelmingly stacked in the favor of the rich and powerful. She has a growing interest in the history of global food systems and teaches some classes within this vein.
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keywords: global food systems.global healthhistory of medicineindigenous knowledge systems

Dr. Andrea Freidus

September 28, 2018 by Andrea Freidus
department: Anthropology

Andrea FreidusAssistant Professor
Department of Anthropology

I specialize in applied and medical anthropology. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I also have an MPH in global public health. I have worked in Latin America, Africa, and South Florida. My research has looked at the rise of grassroots transnational organizations targeting aid to orphans in Malawi, southern Africa. I explore the emerging global connections among volunteers, donors, development workers, program organizers and the directors associated with these organizations and the children they serve. I have also worked on projects that included an examination of risky sexual behavior between female long term tourists and local men in Monteverde, Costa Rica, farmworker experiences with eye injury and access to medical care in Immokalee, Florida, and community experiences with evacuation and relocation in and around Mount Tungurahua in Ecuador. My most current research examines the rise of volunteer tourism with orphans and the proliferation of International Medical Experiences (whereby undergraduates, medical students, and residents volunteer in health programs in the resource poor contexts).[/read]

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keywords: community healthglobal healthhealth systems and organizations

Dr. Virginia Gil-Rivas

September 28, 2018 by Virginia Gil-Rivas
department: Psychological Science

Virginia Gil-RivasProfessor
Department of Psychological Science

I study the development, implementation, and evaluation of culturally appropriate brief cognitive behavioral interventions that can be widely disseminated in primary care and community settings. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] In particular, my work aims to develop interventions that address the needs of individuals living in poverty and other vulnerable populations (i.e., ethnic/racial minority groups, immigrants, individuals with mental health disorders, and other marginalized groups).
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keywords: behavioral healthglobal healthmental healthstresstrauma

Dr. Colleen Hammelman

September 28, 2018 by Colleen Hammelman
department: Geography and Earth Sciences

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

I have an active research program examining social justice in urban food systems with particular attention paid to food security in low-income immigrant communities in in Medellin, Colombia; Rosario, Argentina; Toronto, Canada; and Charlotte. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’][/read]

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keywords: community healthfood justicegender and socioeconomic statusglobal healthplace and health

Dr. Deborah Thomas

September 28, 2018 by Deborah Thomas
department: Geography and Earth Sciences

Professor and Chair
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences

I specialize in hazards and health geography and have more than twenty years of experience in the application of geographic information science & technology in a variety of social science application areas, including health and disaster management. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] My teaching and research interests focus on issues of vulnerability/resilience as they relate to both natural and human-induced hazards and health outcomes, commonly emphasizing the role of technology, particularly GIS, in assessing and evaluating the intersection of human-physical systems and the built environment. Around these themes, I have published in numerous journals and is co-editor a book entitled Social Vulnerability. In 2005, I was a Fulbright Scholar to Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. I have worked for the last 10 years in Tanzania as part of a partnership with the Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences in Mwanza, Tanzania.[/read]

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keywords: environmental healthgis/mappingglobal healthhealth technology