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EMILY MENDENHALL, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service

Science, Technology and International Affairs Program

Georgetown University | Washington, DC 20057

Phone: 202.687.1950; Email: em1061@georgetown.edu
Positions

2013-present Georgetown University, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington DC

Assistant Professor of Global Health, STIA Program

2013 (spring) London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK

Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Global Mental Health

2012- 2013 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit

2011-2012 Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi, India

National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholar

2006-2015 Global Health Narratives for Change, Founding Director


Education

2007-2012 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA

PhD: 2012 Department of Anthropology

MA: 2009 Department of Anthropology

2004-2006 Emory University, Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, GA, USA

MPH: 2006 Hubert Department of Global Health (Honors)

2000-2004 Davidson College, Davidson, NC, USA

BA: 2004 Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (Honors)

2002 School for International Training, Brattleboro, VT, USA

Site: Valparaiso, Chile (Culture, Development, and Social Justice)



Publications

Scholarly Books

1) Single-authored books

In Revision

Diabetes Embodied: Social Trauma, Poverty, and Mental Distress in Global Health
2012 Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women. Routledge/Left Coast Press: Walnut Creek, CA.

2014 Reviews in Journal of Anthropological Research and American Journal of Human Biology


2) Co-Edited Volume

2015 Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge/Left Coast Press: Walnut Creek, CA. (Second Editor w/ Brandon A. Kohrt, w/ forward by Vikram Patel)

2015 Reviews in Medical Anthropology Quarterly, American Journal of Human Biology, & Choice Connect
Refereed Journal Articles

1) Single-Authored

2016 “Global Mental Health: Transdisciplinary Perspectives Conference Proceedings.” Global Public Health, in press.
2015 “Beyond Co-Morbidity: A Critical Anthropological Perspective of Depression and Diabetes in Cross-Cultural Contexts.” Special Issue edited by Lesley Jo Weaver and Ron Barrett, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, epub April 10.
2015 “Syndemic Suffering in Soweto: Violence and Inequality at the Nexus of Health Transition in South Africa.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 38(2): 302-318.
2) First-Authored: lead writing, research, and analysis

Revise and Resubmit

“Non-communicable Disease Syndemics: Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes among the Urban Poor.” (with Brandon Kohrt, David Ndetei, Shane Norris, and Dorairaj Prabhakraan) The Lancet
2016 “Utilization of standardized mental health assessments in anthropological research:

possibilities and pitfalls.” (with Kristin Yarris and Brandon Kohrt) Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, in press.

2016 “Nurses’ Perceptions of mental healthcare in primary-care settings in Kenya.” (with Gitonga Isaiah, Bernadette Nelson, Abednego Musau, Adam D. Koon, Lahra Smith, Victoria Mutiso, David Ndetei) Global Public Health, epub July 12.
2016 “Normalizing Diabetes in Delhi: A Qualitative Study of Health and Healthcare.” (with H.

Stowe McMurry, Roopa Shivashankar, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran) Anthropology and Medicine, epub June 21.


2015 “Diabetes care among urban women in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study.” (with

Shane A. Norris) BMC Public Health, 15: 1300. (7 pages)


2015 “Stress, Diabetes, and Infection: Syndemic Suffering at an Urban Kenyan Hospital.”

(with Gregory Omondi, Edna Bosire, Gitonga Isaiah, Abednego Musau, David Ndetei, Victoria Mutiso) Social Science and Medicine, 146: 11-20.


2015 “When HIV is Ordinary, Diabetes New: Remaking Suffering in a South African Township.” (with Shane A. Norris) Global Public Health, 10(4): 449-62
2014 “Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.” (with Mary J. De Silva, Charlotte Hanlon, Inge Petersen, Rahul Shidhaye, Mark Jordans, Nagendra Luitel, Joshua Ssebunnya, Abebaw Fekadu, Vikram Patel, Mark Tomlinson, Crick Lund) Social Science and Medicine 118: 33-42.
2014 “Applying Syndemics and Chronicity: Interpretations from Studies of Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes.” (Co-first author with Lesley Jo Weaver) Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 33(2): 1-17.
2013 “Psychological and Physical Co-Morbidity among Urban South African Women.” (with Linda Richter, Alan Stein, Shane Norris) PLOS One 8(10): e78803.
2012 “Stress and Diabetes in Socioeconomic Context: A Qualitative Study of Urban Indians.”

(with Roopa Shivashankar, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammad K. Ali, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran) Social Science and Medicine 75: 2522-2529.


2012 “Interpersonal Abuse and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women with Type 2 Diabetes.” (with Elizabeth A. Jacobs) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(1): 136-153.
2012 “Susto, Coraje, and Abuse: Depression and Beliefs about Diabetes.” (with Alicia Fernandez, Nancy Adler, Elizabeth A. Jacobs) Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(3): 480-492.
2010 “Speaking through diabetes: Rethinking the significance of lay discourses on diabetes.” (with Rebecca Seligman, Alicia Fernandez, Elizabeth A. Jacobs) Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(2): 220-239.
2007 “Property Grabbing and Will Writing in Lusaka, Zambia: An Examination of Wills of HIV Infected Cohabiting Couples.” (with Muzizi, Rob Stephenson, E Chomba, Allen Haworth, Susan Allen) AIDS Care 19(3): 369-74.
3) Commentaries and Systematic Reviews

2016 “Today’s risk factors, tomorrow’s disease; overweight and obesity insights from India’s

fourth National Family Health Survey.” (third author with H. Stowe McMurry, Roopa Shivashankar, and Dorairaj Prabhakaran) Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), in press.
2016 “How Anthropological Theory and Methods Can Advance Global Mental Health.”

(second author with Brandon A. Kohrt and Peter J. Brown) Lancet Psychiatry,

3(May):396-397.
2014 “Reorienting Women’s Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The case of depression and type 2 diabetes.” (first author with Lesley Jo Weaver) Global Health Action 7: 22803 (5 pages).
2014 “Depression and Type 2 Diabetes in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic

Review.” (first author with Shane A. Norris, Rahul Shidhaye, Dorairaj Prabhakaran) Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 103: 276–285.


2013 “Association of Somatoform Disorders with Anxiety and Depression in Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.” (second author with Rahul Shidhaye, Kathakie Sumathipala, Athula Sumathipala, Vikram Patel) International Review of Psychiatry 25(1): 65–76.
2012 “Depression and Diabetes in India: Perspectives and Recommendations.” (with Gitanjali Narayanan and Dorairaj Prabhakaran) Diabetic Medicine 29(9):e308-11.
4) Co-Authored Articles

Revise and Resubmit

“Syndemics and a Biosocial Conception of Health.” (Last author with Merrill Singer,

Bayla Ostrach, and Nicola Bulled) The Lancet


2016 “Nurses’ perceptions of universal health coverage and its implications for the Kenyan health sector.” (Last author with Adam Koon, Lahra Smith, Victoria Mutiso, and David Ndetei) Critical Public Health, epub July 14
2016 “System level approaches for mainstreaming tobacco control into existing health programs in India: Perspectives from the field.” (fourth author with Rajmohan Panda, Swati Srivastava, Divya Persai, Monika Arora, and Manu Raj Mathur) Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 4(4):559-65.
2014 “Do women with diabetes experience depression equally in urban centers in Mexico and the United States? A comparative study.” (Last and corresponding author with Lara Muñoz, María del Carmen, Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Marco Antonio Escamilla) Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health, 36(4):225-231.
2014 “Global Health Research in Narrative: A Qualitative Look at the FICRS-F Experience.” (seventh author with Bearnot, Benjamin, Angela Coria, Brian S. Barnett, Eva H. Clark, Matt G. Gartland, Devan Jaganath, Lillian Seu, Ayaba G. Worjohoh, Catherine L. Carothers, Sten Vermund, Doug Heimburger) Am J Trop Med Hyg. Epub Sep 22. pii: 13-0481.
2014 “A mixed methods exploration of patterns of healthcare utilization of urban women with non-communicable disease in South Africa.” (second author with Daniel Ibanez-Gonzalez, Shane A. Norris) BMC Health Services Research, 14:528.
2014 “Self-care and subjectivity among Mexican diabetes patients in the United States.” (second author with Rebecca Seligman, Maria Valvidonos, Alicia Fernandez, Elizabeth A. Jacobs) Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(1): 61-79.
2012 “Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American low-income patients with diabetes.” (fourth author with Elizabeth Lynch, Alicia Fernandez, Nicole Lighthouse, Elizabeth Jacobs) Health Education Research 27(5): 814-24.
2011 “An exploratory study of how trust in health care institutions varies across African American, Hispanic and white populations.” (second author with Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Ann S. McAlearney, Italia Rolle, Eric Whitaker, Richard Warnecke, Carol E. Ferrans) Communication and Medicine, 8(1):89-98.
2011 “Beliefs about Racism and Health among African American Women with Diabetes: A Qualitative Study.” (third author with Wagner, Julie, Chandra Osborn, Lisa Budris, Sophia Belay, Howard Tennen) Journal of the National Medical Association, 103(3): 224–232.
2008 “The Influence of Motivational Messages on Future Planning Behaviors Among HIV Concordant Positive and Discordant Couples in Lusaka, Zambia.” (second author with Stephenson, Rob, L Muzizi, B Vwalika, E Chomba, Y Ahmed, L Clark, D Roth, J Telfair, A Haworth, Susan Allen) AIDS Care 20(2): 150-160.
Other Scholarly Writing

1) Book Chapters

2016 “Syndemic Suffering: Rethinking Distress and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology. Eds, Peter. J. Brown and Svea Closser. Routledge.
2015 “Introduction: Anthropological Perspectives in Global Mental Health.” (second author with Brandon Kohrt) In Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2015 “Historical Background: Medical Anthropology and Global Mental Health.” (second author with Brandon Kohrt and Peter J. Brown) In Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2015 “Anthropological Methods in Global Mental Health Research.” (first author with Brandon Kohrt) In Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2015 “The “Cost” of Health Care: Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrants in the United States.” In Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2015 “Conclusion: A Roadmap for Anthropology and Global Mental Health.” (second author with Brandon Kohrt and Peter Brown) In Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives
2) Encyclopedia Entries

In press “Diabetes.” (Coauthored with Lesley Jo Weaver) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Invited and edited by Catherine Panter-Brick.


In press “Global Mental Health.” (Second author with Brandon Kohrt and Peter Brown) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Invited and edited by Catherine Panter-Brick.
3) Blog Posts

2016 “Global Health Education: When (and How) Global Health Issues Should Be Introduced to Youth.” (with Peter J. Brown) Somatosphere, accepted/in press


2015 “Views on Bioculturalism.” Invited essay for series edited by Jeffrey Snodgrass for Somatosphere, published online August 10.
2015 “Creating Methods that Speak Across Disciplines in Medical Anthropology.” Invited Essay for Somatosphere, published online June 19.
Pedagogy: Global Health Narratives Book Series

2015 Community Health Narratives: A Reader. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque. (Edited with Kathy Wollner)


2012 Environmental Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque. (Edited with Adam Koon)
2009 Global Health Narratives: A Reader for Youth. University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque.
Research Awards and Grants

External Awards

2016 Creative Scholarship Award, Society for the study of Psychiatry and Culture, for Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives

2013 South African Medical Research Council top article

2012 Global Young Academy

2011-2012 National Institutes of Health Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholarship,

$30,000 stipend

2011-2012 National Institutes of Health Fogarty Scholar Research Fund, $6,000

Social Stress and Diabetes across Socioeconomic Groups in Delhi

2010 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, $10,000



Stories at the Border of Mind and Body: Mexican Immigrant Women’s Narratives of Distress and Diabetes

2008 National Science Foundation Summer Institute for Research Design, full tuition

2005 Sandy Kemp Scholar, Doctors for Global Health

2005 The University of Michigan Population Fellows GAP Mini-Grant. $3,000



Gender and Power Dynamics in Counseling Services for HIV Discordant Cohabiting

Couples in Lusaka, Zambia

2003 Bank of America Research Scholarship for International Research, $3,000


Georgetown University

2016-2017 Mortara Center for International Studies, Book Workshop Grant, $4,000

2016 School of Foreign Service Faculty Research Grant, $3,000 (Fall)

2015-2016 School of Foreign Service Faculty Research Grant, $3,000

2015-2016 Global Futures International Collaborative Grant, $15,000

Seminar on Global Mental Health, with Yulia Chentsova

2015 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Georgetown Nominee

2015 Global Futures Research Grant, $7,500

Seminar for Syndemics Lancet Series

2015 Summer Academic Grant, $10,000

Syndemic Junctures: Emergent Distress and Diabetes among Poor Women in Emerging Economies

2014 (fall) International Collaborative Research Grant, $8,000

Symposium on the Implementation of Universal Health Coverage (UHC): The Views of Kenyan Nurses

2014 (spring) International Collaborative Research Grant, $4,000



Social Experiences and Mental Health of Primary Care Patients with and without Diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya

2013-2016 Start-Up Research Funds, $35,000


Northwestern University

2007-2012 Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Anthropology, $20,000 stipend for five years

2010 Graduate Research Grant, $3,000

Stories Intersecting Mind and Body: Distress and Diabetes among Mexican

Immigrant Women

2009 Cells to Society Graduate Seed Grant, $5,000



Stories Intersecting Mind and Body: Distress and Diabetes among Mexican

Immigrant Women

2009-11 The Graduate School Conference Travel Grant, $1,000x3

2008 Roberta Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies Summer Research Travel Award, $3,000
Emory University

2006 Omicron Delta Kappa

2005 O. C. Hubert Charitable Fund, $3,000

Conferences Organized____________________________________________________________

2016 Georgetown University. Global Mental Health: Transdisciplinary Perspectives. Organized

and co-hosted international, interdisciplinary one-day symposium with Yulia Chentsova

Dutton. April 17, Washington, D.C.


Invited Lectures

2016 Rutgers University. “Diet, exercise, and what else? Modifiable determinants of obesity in Mexican immigrant families.” NIH-funded conference, Keynote speaker. May 7, New Brunswick, New Jersey.


2016 Emory University. “Expanding the Research Team in Global Mental Health Research.” Symposium of Anthropological Perspectives in Global Mental Health. April 30, Atlanta, G.A.
2016 Emory University. “Global Mental Health in Development and Transdisciplinary Perspective.” Symposium of Anthropological Perspectives in Global Mental Health. April 29, Atlanta, G.A.
2015 Georgetown University. “Teresa’s Problems: Beyond the Mind and Body.” Invitation by the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies to present at the Saturday Seminar for Health Care Providers entitled Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Health Care and Social Work. February 21, Washington, D.C.
2014 American University. “Women’s Health in Transition: Syndemic Suffering in Emerging Economies.” Invitation by the Center for Risk, Health, and Society. April 23, Washington, D.C.
2014 Johns Hopkins University. “Syndemic Distress and Diabetes in Contexts of Health Transition.” Invitation by the Department of Mental Health. April 21, Baltimore, M.D.
2014 University of Virginia. “Narratives in Global Health Research and Education: What they do and why they matter.” Invitation by the Center for Global Health. April 7, Charlottesville, V.A.
2013 Yale University. “Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among the Urban Poor.” Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, January 22, New Haven, Connecticut.
2013 The Ohio State University. “Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among the Urban Poor.” Department of Anthropological Sciences, January 11, Columbus, Ohio.
2012 Public Health Foundation of India. “Syndemics and the Study of how Social Influences Co-occur and Interact with Chronic Disease.” Center for Chronic Disease Control and South Asian Network for Chronic Disease, February 10, New Delhi, India.
2011 Emory University. “The VIDDA Syndemic: Distress and Diabetes among Mexican Women in Chicago.” Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, April 12, Atlanta, GA
2011 Beloit College. Invited Keynote Speaker for the Girls and Women in Science (GWIS) Conference. March 25-26, Beloit, WI.
Conference Panels Organized

2015 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “Traversing Collaborative Boundaries: In Discipline, Authorship, and Legitimacy.” (Roundtable, Pittsburgh, PA)

2014 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “Doxa and the Ubiquity of Disease: Making the Inordinary Ordinary.” (Invited session, Washington, DC)
2010 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “Using Narratives in Teaching Global Health to Young People: Possibilities, Problems and Practice.” (Invited session, Merida, Mexico)
Conference Presentations

2016 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting ““Catch-All Stigma” in Three Countries.” (Invited Panel Presentation, Minneapolis, MN)


2015 MAGic2015: Anthropology and Global Health: Interrogating theory, policy and practice “Chronicities & Synergies of Diabetes and HIV/AIDS in Two Sub-Saharan African Cities” (Invited Panel Presentation, Brighton, UK)
2015 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “Melding Methods in Anthropological Research for Public Health” (Invited Panel Presentation, Pittsburg, PA)
2014 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “When HIV is Ordinary, Diabetes New: Remaking Suffering in a South African Township” (Invited Panel Presentation, Washington, DC)
2014 Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group Conference ““Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives”: Reflections on Ethnographic Writing at the Intersection of Anthropology and Global Mental Health.” (Invited Panel Presentation, Washington, DC)
2014 Third Global Symposium on Health Systems Research “Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.” (Poster presentation, Cape Town, South Africa)
2014 US Investigators’ Global Non-Communicable Diseases Research Network Symposium “Social Experiences and Mental Health among Patients with and without Diabetes at a Public Hospital Clinic in Nairobi, Kenya.” (Poster Presentation, Atlanta, GA)
2014 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “Significant “Times”: Connecting Trauma and Diabetes Onset as Significant Life Events” (Invited Panel Presentation, Albuquerque, NM)
2014 International Conference on Global Disability and Health “Social Determinants of Obesity, Diabetes, and Depression in Rural India: Insights from the Andhra Pradesh Children and Parents (APCAPS) Study.” (Poster presentation, Hyderabad, India)
2013 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “Syndemic Suffering in Soweto: A Critical Look At the Intimacies of Poverty in the Epidemiology of Disease.” (Invited Panel presentation, Chicago, IL).
2013 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “Where Narratives and Psychometrics (Don’t) Meet: Challenges in Cross-Cultural Mental Health Research.” (Panel presentation, Denver, CO)
2013 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “Flipping Biomedicine on its Head: Borrowed Words and Strategic Suffering.” (Panel presentation, Denver, CO)
2012 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “Nodes of Inequality: A Syndemic Analysis of Depression and Diabetes.” (Invited Paper Presentation, San Francisco, CA, USA)
2012 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “Syndemic Treatment: How Can Syndemic Theory Be Applied to Diabetes Care?” (Invited Panel presentation, Baltimore, MD)
2012 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “A Syndemic Problem: Social Stratification, Distress, and Diabetes in Urban India.” (Invited Panel presentation, Baltimore, MD)
2012 2nd Annual Public Health Foundation of India Research Symposium “Distress, Depression, and Diabetes in Delhi: Preliminary Findings from an Ethnographic Analysis of the CARRS Surveillance Study.” (Panel Presentation, Hyderabad, India)
2011 Society for Behavioral Medicine Annual Meeting “Interpersonal Abuse, Social Isolation, and Psychiatric Distress among women of Mexican Descent living with Type 2 Diabetes in Chicago.” (Panel presentation, Washington, DC)
2011 Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting “The VIDDA Syndemic: Diabetes and Distress in Social and Cultural Context.” Chair and presenter on “Diabetes among Minority Populations” (Invited panel presentation, Seattle, WA)
2010 Midwest Society for General Internal Medicine Regional Meeting “Abuse, Depression, and Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Diabetic Mexican-American Women.” (Poster, Chicago, IL)
2010 Adler Institute of Social Exclusion Conference “The Social Determinants of Distress: Understanding the Impact of Interpersonal Violence on Depression among Mexican Immigrant Diabetics.” (Panel Presentation, Chicago, IL)
2010 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “Global Health Narratives: The Politics of Using Anthropology to Write Fictional Narratives about Global Health,” (Panel presentation, Merida, Mexico)
2009 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “’I think I got too Mad’: Gender and Trauma in the Mexican American Diabetes Explanatory Model.” (Panel presentation, Santa Fe, NM)
2008 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “Translating Trauma: Distress, Depression, and Diabetes in a Chicago Mexican Population.” (Panel presentation, San Francisco, CA)
2008 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting Un Cuento de Coraje: Emotion, Depression and Diabetes in a Mexican population in Chicago.” (Poster presentation, Memphis, TN)
2007 American Public Health Association Annual Meeting “Trust and distrust of physicians among African American, Non-Hispanic White and Hispanic respondents.” (Paper presentation, Washington, DC)
2007 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “Comparing Trust and Distrust of Physicians among African American, Caucasian and Latino Respondents in Chicago.” (Paper presentation, Tampa, FL)
2006 Society for Applied Anthropology and Society for Medical Anthropology Joint Meeting “Property Grabbing and Will Writing in Lusaka, Zambia: An Examination of Wills of HIV Infected Cohabiting Couples” (Paper Presentation, Vancouver, Canada)
2006 International Conference on Women and Infectious Diseases “Property Grabbing and Will Writing in Lusaka, Zambia: An Examination of Wills of HIV Infected Cohabiting Couples” (Paper presentation, Atlanta, GA)
Discussant Roles and Roundtables

2015 American Anthropological Association annual meeting “Anthropological Engagements in Global Mental Health.” (Roundtable participant, Denver, CO)


2015 American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting “Public Health Contending with Public Sentiments: Collaborative Responses to the Real Risks of “Crisis” and Alarmist Representations.” (Discussant, Denver, CO)
2011 Indo-US Advanced Training Course on Nutritional Epidemiology “Social Epidemiology of Nutrition,” by Dr. SV Subramanium. (Discussant, New Delhi, India)
2008 Northwestern Conference on Human Rights “Health and Human Rights: Resolving Bioethical Dilemmas in the Developing World” (Discussant, Evanston, IL)
Field Work

2014 “Exploratory Study of Universal Health Coverage in Kenya: A study of Kenyan Nurses”, with Dr. Lahra Smith, Adam Koon, and Africa Mental health Foundation. July-September

Role: co-Principle Investigator with Lahra Smith
2014 “Social Experiences and Mental Health among Primary Care Patients with and without Diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya”, African Mental Health Foundation (Dr. David Ndetei and Dr. Victoria Mutiso): Nairobi, Kenya. May-August

Role: Principle Investigator


2012 “Stress and Diabetes in the Context of HIV/AIDS”, Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, University of the Witwatersrand (Dr. Shane Norris); Johannesburg, South Africa, August-December

Role: Principle Investigator


2011-2 “Stress and Diabetes in Socioeconomic Context,” Public Health Foundation of India (Dr. Dorairaj Prabhakaran); Delhi, India, September 2011-June 2012.

Role: Principle Investigator


2009-10 “Stress, Distress, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women”, Collaborative Research Unit, John H. Stroger. Jr. Hospital of Cook County (Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs); Chicago, United States, November 2009-July 2010.

Role: co-Investigator (PhD Research)


2006-7 “Culture, Immigration, and Health Care”, Collaborative Research Unit, John H. Stroger, Jr.

Hospital of Cook County (Dr. Elizabeth Jacobs); Chicago, United States, October 2006-Septeber 2007.

Role: Research Associate
2005 “Reproductive Decision-Making among HIV Sero-Discordant Couples”, Zambia-Emory HIV Research Project (Dr. Susan Allen); Lusaka, Zambia, Summer.

Role: Graduate Student Researcher (MPH Research)


Professional Service

Georgetown Service

2016 Co-organizer, Global Mental Health: Transdisciplinary Perspectives

2015 Lecturer, Doyle Seminar on Diversity

2015 Judge, Bioethics Showcase, The Kennedy Institute of Ethics

2015 Selection Committee, Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MURF)

2015 Chair, Maloy Distinguished Lecture (annual), STIA-SFS

2015 Lecturer, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, Center for Social Justice

2014 Co-chair, The Ebola Crisis: Context, Systemic Challenges, and Consequences, SFS

2014 Committee Member, STIA Faculty Search

2014 Judge, Symposium for Undergraduate Research

2014 Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellowship (MURF) mentor


Other Service

2011-2016 Co-Editor, Left Coast Press, Book Series entitled “Anthropology and Global Public Health: Critical Approaches and Constructive Solutions” with Peter J. Brown

2014 Judge, Rudolf Virchow Award (graduate level), Critical Anthropology of Global Health Special Interest Group, Society for Medical Anthropology

2012 External PhD Exam Reviewer, University of Connecticut

2012 Committee Member, Faculty of Health Sciences PhD Protocol Assessment, University of the Witwatersrand

2007-present Peer-reviewer, Social Science and Medicine; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry; Medical Anthropology; American Journal of Public Health; Pan American Journal of Public Health; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved; AIDS and Behavior; AIDS Care; Journal of General Internal Medicine; Global Health Action; Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice; Global Public Health; BMC Public Health


Teaching and Advising

Georgetown University

2013-present Assistant Professor, Science Technology, and International Affairs (STIA-SFS)

STIA 301: Directed Reading in Medical Anthropology

STIA 305: Science and Technology in the Global Arena (teach five lectures in the course on global health)

STIA 325: STIA Research Foundations (Core Methods Course)

STIA 341: Global Health Politics and Policy

STIA 365: War, Violence, and Health

STIA 459: People, Plagues, and Technology (Senior Seminar)
Northwestern University

2008-2010 Teaching Fellow, Departments of Global Health and Anthropology

2008-2011 Instructor, Science and Engineering Research and Teaching Synthesis (SERTS)
Emory University

2006 Teaching Fellow, Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health


Press

2016 The Atlantic. Research featured in article: “How a small town became the capital of HIV in America” by Jessica Wapner.

2015 National Journal interview for “One Good Idea” on “Changing How AIDS Funding is Used” by Lisa Peng.

2015 Podcast of Society for Applied Anthropology Panel Reconsidering Migrant Health: Anthropologists in Conversation with Public Health Paradigms

2014 C-SPAN Coverage of The Ebola Crisis: Context, Systemic Challenges, and Consequences

2013 Book discussed in Somatosphere.

2012 Work highlighted in Anthropology News, April.

2012 Interviewed by KRYS Spokane radio program 'Down to Earth'

2009 Work featured in Global Health Magazine

2009 Interviewed by National Public Radio program ‘The Journey Home’



Memberships

Society for Medical Anthropology



Society for Applied Anthropology

American Anthropological Association

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