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| Sharon Abramowitz, Ph.D. 107 University Rd. Apt. 3, Brookline, MA 02445 Email: saabramowitz@gmail.com / C: (617) 599-0191, Skype: sharon.a.abramowitz
CURRENT ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS Research Affiliate, Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University Graduate Faculty, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida Collaborating Expert, Conflict, Health, and Resilience Program, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University Advisory Board Member, Journal of Humanitarian Affairs
EDUCATION Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 2010-2011 NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychiatric Epidemiology Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 2004-2009 Ph.D., Sociocultural/Medical Anthropology Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2002-2004 M.A. Sociology Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 1994-1998 B.A. Sociology, Near Eastern Judaic Studies, Women and Gender Studies. AWARDS 2015: American Anthropological Association Executive Director’s Award 2011: Rudolf Virchow Award for Best Professional Paper in the Critical Anthropology of Global Health
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE UNICEF- C4D March 2018-Present Consultant Co-lead global process for the development of minimum standards and indicators for community engagement in development and humanitarian contexts. The Ebola 100 Project Jan 2015-Present Founder, Principal Investigator and Project Director Conceived, designed, project-managed, and directed a collaborative, multi-national, multi-lingual project involving 30+ researchers and practitioners across several dozen research sites. It has collected over 200 interviews with people involved in the West African Ebola response of 2014-2015. The project maps a history of the West African Ebola Response and creates a public archive of humanitarian experiences during the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreaks. Project has received funding support from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and Institut Pasteur. It is being gifted to the Harvard Medical School’s Center for the History of Medicine, and will be available as an open access archive in 2018. International Business and Technical Consultants (IBTCI) Nov 2016-Nov 2017 Consultant Anthropologist – USAID/OFDA WEST AFRICA EVD PILLAR I RESPONSE For an evaluation of the USAID/OFDA (Office of Foreign Disasters Assistance) response to the West African Ebola outbreak, I provided expert analysis of gender trends, epidemiological timelines, response timelines, inter-country comparisons, social mobilization analysis, military and scientific contributions. Drafted source research documents, devised qualitative and historical methodologies, and provided write-ups and policy recommendations. UNICEF Nov 2016-Jan 2017 Consultant – SCIENTIFIC REVIEW OF EPIDEMIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE RESEARCH DURING WEST AFRICA EVD EPIDEMIC Conducted systematic literature review of epidemiological and anthropological literatures during the West African Ebola Response. Identified future areas for research, developed agenda for integration of anthropological data into real-time epidemiological surveillance mechanisms. World Health Organization Mar 2015- Jun 2016 Consultant - REVIEW OF HEALTH, MENTAL HEALTH AND PSYCHOSOCIAL NEEDS IN LIBERIA Conducting comprehensive literature review of mental health and psychosocial needs and structural capacity in Liberia consistent with IASC Guidelines for Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) in Humanitarian Emergencies. Published through WHO. UNICEF Aug 2015-Jun 2016 Consultant- EVALUATION OF UNICEF EBOLA COMMUNITY CARE CENTERS (CCC’S) IN SIERRA LEONE Lead comprehensive qualitative research-based evaluation of 48 UNICEF Ebola Community Care Centers (CCC’s) in Sierra Leone. Primary outcomes included district-level validation process, presentations of findings, an internal report, and peer-reviewed journal article. Secondary outcomes included research and submission of academic analysis of the socio-cultural interaction between social mobilization campaigns and community-based response to the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. University of Florida Jan 2011-Mar 2016 Assistant Professor of Anthropology & African Studies Medical anthropologist and West Africa area expert engaged in teaching and research in anthropology, women’s studies, African Studies, Master’s in Development Practice (see courses taught). Advises graduate students and undergraduate students. . Established Health in Africa Working Group in the Center for African Studies, and UF Ebola Research Group. Created UF Anthropology graduate professionalism seminar. Established graduate and undergraduate certificate programs in medical anthropology. American Anthropological Association Sept 2014 – Dec 2015 Lead, EMERGENCY EBOLA ANTHROPOLOGY INITIATIVE Directed, fundraised from Wenner-Gren Foundation, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, and IDRC, built the information architecture, and coordinated 300 worldwide anthropologists, social scientists, and practitioners to contribute contextual information to key actors in the West African Ebola Outbreak. Directed the production of public media documents, conducted direct research and analysis on Ebola-related qualitative data from Liberia, and administered the network. Directed and carried out the production of an impact evaluation. Initiated a multi-key investigator global initiative called “The Ebola 100” to document humanitarian and practitioner experiences of the epidemic and generate a ‘history of the present.” Functioned as a focal point for media, humanitarian, policy, and government contacts. This effort constituted the largest anthropological response to a global health crisis in history, and played a key role in elevating the role of culture and local knowledge to humanitarian and epidemiological significance. Save the Children Apr-Jun 2015 Consultant (GK Consulting) Lead comprehensive field-based evaluation of Save the Children Ebola Community Care Centers (CCC’s) in Margibi County, Liberia. Developed qualitative and quantitative assessment tools, methods, and oversaw field and literature-based data collection, as well as documentary evidence and clinical records data analysis. Presented findings to Save the Children. Report in process for publication. Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health May 2010- May 2011 NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellow in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Dept. Mental Health Training and research in epidemiology, qualitative methods, analysis, and determinants of mental health outcomes in transnational settings. Research domains emphasized social functioning, social support, and social network analysis in mental health outcomes. Additional areas of investigation included gender-based violence, severe mental illness (including schizophrenia and psychosis), and substance abuse. Harvard University Sep 2009-July 2010 Harvard College Fellow Post-doctoral teaching fellow for advanced seminars and lecture-style courses in the Department of Anthropology and in Studies in Women, Gender, and Sexuality. Conducted undergraduate advising, senior honors thesis advising, and continued independent scholarly research. International Organization for Migration, Banda Aceh, Indonesia Jan 2006 Research Consultant Supported development of survey instrument, research design, training protocol, and research methodology for assessing the prevalence of trauma-related mental illness among demilitarized soldiers and civilians in Banda Aceh. Center for Victims of Torture, Monrovia, Liberia 2005 Research Consultant Coordinated all phases of research for determining the prevalence of trauma-related mental illness among adults in Bong and Lofa counties. Included adapting standardized survey instrument, developing training modules, training research assistants, determining sampling methodology, conducting focus groups, managing all research-related logistics. Study also assessed current security factors and migration status; used qualitative and quantitative methodologies. (Project was closed prematurely due to security concerns.) World Health Organization & Center for Victims of Torture, Guinea 2003 Research Consultant Coordinated all phases of research for determining the prevalence of trauma-related mental illness among adults in six communities in Southern Guinea affected by the 2000-2001 LURD/RUF attacks. Included adapting standardized survey instrument, developing training modules, training research assistants, determining sampling methodology, conducting focus groups, managing all research-related logistics, analyzing data, and publishing findings. US Peace Corps, Tioroniaradougou, Côte d’Ivoire 2000-2002 Volunteer, Water, Sanitation, and Urban Environmental Management Collaborated with local government officials to address small business development, water and sanitation, HIV/AIDS education, and literacy. Coordinated all phases of the following development projects: construction of forty-five sanitation facilities, organized and trained local artisans’ cooperative in business and technical skills, developed business and technical trainings for well-construction for-profit cooperative; local library and literacy programs. Raised local awareness about HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, family planning, and health education awareness. Women’s Protective Services, Framingham, Massachusetts 1997-1999 Domestic Violence and Rape Crisis Counselor, Framingham, MA Provided crisis intervention, risk assessment, counseling, and safety planning by phone or in person to victims of domestic violence and rape, and to families in the process of post-violence resettlement. Provided shelter intakes, located emergency shelters, arranged for transportation, and facilitated medical, legal, and police intervention for battered women and dependents. Supervised weekend and evening operations of battered woman’s shelter and assisted clients with parenting issues. Germaine Lawrence Diagnostic Center, Arlington, MA 1998-1999 Residential Counselor Provided counseling and crisis intervention to adolescent females with emotional and behavioral disorders. Developed pro-social behaviors and healthy decision-making mechanisms through individual counseling, recreational therapy, group therapy, and support during daily living tasks. Collaborated with a team of therapists, counselors, and social workers to assess immediate and long-term clinical and social needs and goals of patients/residents INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIONS World Health Organization (WHO), WHO R&D Roadmap Consultation (Ebolavirus Disease (EVD), London, Jan 15-16, 2018 World Health Organization (WHO), WHO R&D Roadmap Consultation (Ebolavirus Disease (EVD) and Lassa Fever), London, Jan 17-18, 2018 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Consultation on Minimum Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement, New York, Nov 13-14, 2017 World Health Organization (WHO), Rapid Deployment Training for Social Science in Epidemic Response, Geneva, Oct 8-13, 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) & Wellcome Trust, Consultation on Establishing a Network for Social Sciences in Emergency Response, London, Jun 8, 2017 Gates Foundation, Consultation on Minimum Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement, Washington DC, Apr 24-25. 2017 United States State Department, Executive Analytic Exchange on Liberia, Washington, D.C. June 9, 2016. Institute for Development Studies & Wellcome Trust. Ebola and Lessons for Development: Inequality, Structural Violence and Infectious Disease. London, Feb 25-27, 2015 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Consultation with UNICEF’s “Ebola Cell,” New York, Jan, 2015 United States Centers for Disease Control, Integrating Anthropological Research into CDC’s Ebola Response. Atlanta, GA. Dec 9-10, 2014. American Anthropological Association Consultation on the Emergency Ebola Response (with Carter Center, UNICEF, U.S. Department of Defense, CDC, UNMEER, WHO, IRC, Embassy of Sierra Leone, George Washington University, and others). Washington, DC. November 5, 2014. PUBLICATIONS Books Abramowitz, SA. (2014). Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Abramowitz, SA. and Catherine Panter-Brick, Eds. (2015) Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. Abramowitz, SA. (in research) First the War, Then Ebola: Stories of Emergency and Resilience in West Africa. Abramowitz, SA. (in research) Behind the War on Gender Violence: Tracking the Hidden Histories of Sex, Culture and Power in Liberia’s Past and Present.
Abramowitz, S. (2017) “Epidemics (Especially Ebola).” Annual Review of Anthropology (46) pp.421-445. Abramowitz, SA, McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. C. (2017) “The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia.” Health Communications vol. 22 (sup1) pp. 59-65. Abramowitz, SA. (2016) “Humanitarian Morals and Money: Health Sector Financing and the Prelude to the Liberian Ebola Epidemic.” Critical African Studies vol. 8 (3) pp.319-334. Abramowitz, SA., McLean, K. McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. “General Morbidity and Health-Seeking Behaviors in a context of Ebola Mortality: Monrovia, Liberia in the West African Ebola Epidemic.” Global Public Health pp.1-17. Published online http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2016.1208262. Abramowitz, SA., McKune SL, Bardosh, K., Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. (2015) Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0003706. Published 9 April 2015. Good, B., Delvecchio-Good, MJ, Abramowitz, S., A Kleinman, C Panter-Brick. “Medical Humanitarianism: Research Insights into a Changing Field of Practice.” Social Science & Medicine 2014 (120) 311-316. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.09.027. Abramowitz, SA., Meredith Marten, and Catherine Panter-Brick. (2014) “Medical Humanitarianism: Anthropologists Speak Out on Policy and Practice.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. doi: 10.1111/maq.12139. Abramowitz, SA. and Mary Moran. (2012) “International Human Rights, Gender-Based Violence, and Discourses of Abuse in Post-Conflict Liberia: A Problem of ‘Culture?’” African Studies Review 55(2) p.119-46. Abramowitz, SA. (2011) “Trauma in Liberia: The Tale of Open Mole.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry (Special Issue on Idioms of Distress) 34(2) p.353-79. Abramowitz, SA. and Arthur Kleinman (2008) “Humanitarian intervention and cultural translation: a review of the IASC Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings.” Intervention: International Journal of Mental Health, Psychosocial Work, and Counselling in Areas of Armed Conflict.6 (3/4) p.219-227. Abramowitz, SA. (2005) “The poor have become rich and the rich have become poor: Collective trauma on the Guinean Languette.” Social Science and Medicine. 61 pp. 1206-1218. Reports, Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications, Working Papers Abramowitz, SA. (2017) Culture and Mental Illness in Liberia: A Primer. World Health Organization. Abramowitz, SA., Rogers, B., Aklilu, L., Lee, S., Hipgrave, D. (2016) Ebola Community Care Centers: Lessons learned from UNICEF’s 2014-2015 Experience in Sierra Leone. UNICEF: New York, 2016. https://www.unicef.org/health/files/CCCReport_FINAL_July2016.pdf. Last accessed 3/8/17. Abramowitz, SA., Bardosh, K., Heaner, G. (2015). Evaluation of Save the Children's Community Care Centers in Dolo Town and Worhn, Margibi County, Liberia. http://www.alnap.org/resource/21327. Last accessed 3/8/17. Abramowitz, SA et al. (2014) Guidances and Recommendations: The AAA/Wenner-Gren Ebola Emergency Response Workshop. Abramowitz, SA., McLean, K. McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. (2014) “Preliminary Report on Community-based Accounts of Co-Morbidity, Co-mortality, and Health-Seeking Behaviors in Four Monrovia Communities During the West African Ebola Epidemic.” Working Paper from WHO data. Submitted to U.N. Mission Emergency Ebola Response. Abramowitz, SA., McKune SL, Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. (2014) “The Opposite of Denial: Social Learning at the Onset of the Ebola Emergency in Liberia.” Working Paper from WHO data. Submitted to U.N. Mission Emergency Ebola Response. Abramowitz, SA., McKune SL, McLean, K. Bardosh, K., Fallah, M., Monger, J., Tehoungue, K., Omidian, PA. (2014) Community-Centered Responses to Ebola in Urban Liberia: The View from Below. Working Paper from WHO data. Submitted to U.N. Mission Emergency Ebola Response. Abramowitz, SA, Omidian, PA. (2014) Brief on Attitudes Towards Ebola-Related Funerary Practices and Memorialization in Urban Liberia.” Working Paper from WHO data. Submitted to U.N. Mission Emergency Ebola Response.
Abramowitz, SA. & Catherine Panter-Brick. (2015) “Four Modest Proposals for Medical Humanitarianism.” In Abramowitz, S. and Catherine Panter-Brick, Eds. Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Edited Volume. University of Pennsylvania Press. Abramowitz, SA. (2015) “What Happens When MSF Leaves? Humanitarian Departure and Medical Sovereignty in Post-Conflict Liberia.” In Abramowitz, S. and Catherine Panter-Brick, Eds. Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice. Edited Volume. University of Pennsylvania Press. Bass J, Eaton W, Abramowitz SA, Sartorius N. (2012) “Global Mental Health Issues: Culture and Psychopathology.” Public Mental Health. Ed. William W. Eaton. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Media Appearances: Featured in Discover Magazine: Lyderson, Kari. “Ebola Teams Need Better Cultural Understanding, Anthropologists Say.” December 9, 2014. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2014/12/09/ebola-cultural-anthropologists/#.VJbeesAAOg Featured in Nature: Reardon, S. Ethnography could help in Ebola crisis.” Nature 03 October 2014. http://www.nature.com/news/ethnography-could-help-in-ebola-crisis-1.16067 Featured on C-Span: “Response to West African Ebola Outbreak.” September 23, 2014. https://www.c-span.org/video/?321656-2/response-western-africa-ebola-outbreak Commentaries and Online Articles Abramowitz, SA, Bardosh KL, Leach M., Hewlett, B., Nichter, M., Nguyen, V-K. Social Science Intelligence in the Global Ebola Response. Lancet 385 p.330, January 24, 2015. Contributor to Kowal, Emma, et al. 2015. "The Open Question: Medical Anthropology and Open Access." Medicine Anthropology Theory 2, no. 1: 75–94. Abramowitz, SA. 2014. “How the Liberian Health Sector Became a Vector of Ebola.” Cultural Anthropology: Hot Topics. October 2014. http://www.culanth.org/fieldsights/598-how-the-liberian-health-sector-became-a-vector-for-ebola Abramowitz, SA. 2014. “Ten Things that Anthropologists Can Do to Fight the West African Ebola Epidemic.” Somatosphere October 2014. http://somatosphere.net/2014/09/ten-things-that-anthropologists-can-do-to-fight-the-west-african-ebola-epidemic.html Abramowitz, SA., Rodriguez, O., Arendt, G. 2014. “The effectiveness of U.S. military intervention on Ebola depends on the government’s will and vision to direct vast military resources towards a public health response.” London School of Economics Blog – USAPP http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2014/10/06/the-effectiveness-of-u-s-military-intervention-on-ebola-depends-on-the-governments-will-and-vision-to-direct-vast-military-resources-towards-a-public-health-response/ Abramowitz, SA. (2009) “Healing in Peril?: The Debate between Anthropology and Humanitarian Agencies over Ex-Combatant Rehabilitation.” Anthropology News 50(5) p.14-15
Abramowitz, SA., Byron Good, Mary Jo delVecchio Good, Arthur Kleinman, and Catherine Panter-Brick (2014). (Guest Editors). Special Issue on Medical Humanitarianism, Social Science and Medicine. INVITED TALKS & CONFERENCE PAPERS Abramowitz, SA. (2018) Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA. April 4-6, 2018. Abramowitz, SA. (2017) Medical Anthropology & Humanitarian Response. MSF – (CRASSH) Centre de réflexion sur l'action et les savoirs humanitaires. Conference/Debate. Paris, France. Monday, October 23, 2017. Graham, J., Abramowitz, S., Thiongane, O., Giles-Vernick, T. (2016, 2017) Enhancing detection and response for future interventions: building sustainable community-based capacity through experiences of mobile lab and clinical trial interventions. Refereed Poster presented at 3 separate scholarly conferences. 8th Ebola. 40 years after Yambuku. International Conference on Filovirus, Antwerp, Belgium. September 12-15, 2016; IWK Global Health Conference, Halifax, 17 January, 2017; and Canadian Immunology Research Network AGM, Halifax, 25 May, 2017. Abramowitz, SA. (2016) “The Discovery of ‘Community’ in the West African Ebola Epidemic: A View from Above, and Below.” New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. February 24, 2016.
Abramowitz, SA. (2015) “Culturing Ebola.” Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus Universitat, June 16, 2015.Abramowitz, SA. (2015) “The Questionnable Science of Community-Based Response and Social Mobilization.” EboDakar conference in Dakar, Senegal: May 21, 2015.Abramowitz, SA. (2015) “Community-Based Response to the West African Ebola Epidemic.” London, UK: Institute for Development Studies (IDS) and Wellcome Institute, Feburary 28, 2015.Abramowitz, SA. (2014) “The Political Economy of the Ebola Crisis.” Plenary Speaker at African Studies Association Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN. November 20, 2014.Abramowitz, SA. (2014) “The Ebola Crisis: Context, Systemic Challenges, Consequences,” Georgetown University School of Foreign Policy. September 23, 2014Abramowitz, SA. (2013) “Mental Health and Mental Illness in Liberia.” Gainesville, FL: University of Florida School of Medicine. Abramowitz, SA. (2013) “Medical Humanitarianism: Studying Medical Missions in States of Emergency.” Colgate University, African and Latin American Studies Special Guest Lecture, Hamilton. NY: September 26, 2013. Abramowitz, SA. (2013) “Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice.” Yale-Harvard Colloquium: “Engaging Humanitarianism,” New Haven, CT: May 10, 2013. Abramowitz, SA. “What Happens When MSF Leaves? Health Workers Imagine the State In Post-Conflict Liberia.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco: November 19, 2012. Abramowitz SA, with Byron Good. Co-chairs for double panel entitled “Red Cross, Red Crescent, Blue Helmets: Medical Humanitarianism in States of Emergency.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Francisco: November 19, 2012. Abramowitz, SA. (2012) “Producing Peace Subjectivities: Finding the Normal in Post-Conflict Life.” Conference on “Transcending Traditional Tropes: Conceptualizing politics and policies in 21st Century Upper Guinea Coast.” Max Planck Institute. September 25-28th, 2012. Abramowitz, SA. (2012) “Producing Peace Subjectivities: Trauma Effects and Psychosocial Interventions in Post-Conflict Liberia. Society for Cultural Anthropology, Providence, RI, May 11, 2012. Panel Chair: Trauma Effects: Interpreting the Intersection of Trauma, Psychosocial Interventions, and Humanitarian Praxis. Abramowitz, SA. (2012) “What Happens When MSF Leaves?” Conference on Health and Humanitarianism in Africa. Emory University, Atlanta, GA April 20, 2012. Moran, Mary & Abramowitz, SA. (2011) “The Problem of Culture: Human Rights and Gender Violence in Local Perspective. Liberian Studies Association April 2, 2011. Abramowitz, SA. (2009) “The ‘Psychosocial’ in ‘Post-Conflict’ Humanitarian Discourse.” Delivered at the Workshop on the Anthropology of Conflict and Post-Conflict Interventions. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, February 27, 2009. Abramowitz, SA. (2008) “Liberia's Psychosocial Aftermath: Studying the Effects of Humanitarian Intervention on Post-Conflict Psycho-Sociality.” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association (AAA), San Francisco, CA, November 21, 2008. Also served as Chair of Session “Coping With Trauma in Post-Conflict Societies.” Abramowitz, SA. (2008) “Gender Based Violence Traditions in Liberia’s Post-Conflict Recovery.” Delivered at the Carter Center, Atlanta, GA, June 4, 2008. Abramowitz, SA. (2008) “Law, Tradition, and Humanitarian Vision: GBV Practices in Liberia.” Delivered at the Annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology/ Society for Medical Anthropology, Memphis, TN, March 27, 2008. Abramowitz, SA. (2007) “Post-Conflict Culture: Transitional Space and Time.” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 28, 2007. Abramowitz, SA. (2007) “Imagining the State: Medical Care and Post-Conflict Transition in Liberia.” Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York, NY, October 18, 2007. Abramowitz, SA. (2007) “Managing Suffering: Open Mole and Trauma Among Liberian Women.” Delivered at the Liberian Studies Association, Bloomington, Indiana, March 24, 2007. Abramowitz, SA. and Benton, A. (2005) “West African Interventionscapes: Sovereignty and Humanitarian Incommensurability in Sierra Leone and Liberia.” Feinstein International Famine Center, Tufts University, 20 April 2006. Abramowitz, SA. and Benton, A. (2005) “West Africa Wins Again: Field Notes from Sierra Leone and Liberia.” NIMH Seminar on Medical Anthropology and Cultural Psychiatry, Harvard University, 4 November 2005. INTERNATIONAL CONSULTATIONS World Health Organization (WHO), WHO R&D Roadmap Consultation (Ebolavirus Disease (EVD) and Lassa Fever), London, Jan 15-19, 2018 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Consultation on Minimum Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement, New York, Nov 13-14, 2017 World Health Organization (WHO), Rapid Deployment Training for Social Science in Epidemic Response, Geneva, Oct 8-13, 2017 World Health Organization (WHO) & Wellcome Trust, Consultation on Establishing a Network for Social Sciences in Emergency Response, London, Jun 8, 2017 Gates Foundation, Consultation on Minimum Standards and Indicators for Community Engagement, Washington DC, Apr 24-25. 2017 United States State Department, Executive Analytic Exchange on Liberia, Washington, D.C. June 9, 2016. Institute for Development Studies & Wellcome Trust. Ebola and Lessons for Development: Inequality, Structural Violence and Infectious Disease. London, Feb 25-27, 2015 United States Centers for Disease Control, Integrating Anthropological Research into CDC’s Ebola Response. Atlanta, GA. Dec 9-10, 2014. American Anthropological Association Consultation on the Emergency Ebola Response (with Carter Center, UNICEF, U.S. Department of Defense, CDC, UNMEER, WHO, IRC, Embassy of Sierra Leone, George Washington University, and others). Washington, DC. November 5, 2014. TEACHING Graduate Courses: Anthropology of Humanitarian Intervention; Sickness and Power; Global Mental Health; Global Gender Violence Undergraduate Courses: Women in Africa; Global Health Cultures; Global Mental Health; Global Gender Violence, The African Experience; Health in Africa; Ethnographic Research Methods COURT CASES IN WHICH I HAVE BEEN COMMENDED AS AN EXPERT
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION Convener, AAA-Wenner-Gren Emergency Ebola Anthropology Response Workshop. George Washington University, November 6-7th, 2014. Coordinator, Global Ebola Emergency Anthropology Network
Peer Reviewer: American Anthropologist, American Ethnologist, Cultural Anthropology, Child Abuse and Neglect, Critical Public Health, Disasters, Global Health Governance, Health Security, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, PLoS, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Population Research and Policy Review, Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, Social Science and Medicine, Third World Quarterly, Transcultural Psychiatry, Journal of Rural Studies Proposal Reviewer: National Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES (past and present) African Studies Association (including Health and Medicine Section); American Anthropological Association; American Ethnological Society; Association for Africanist Anthropology; Society for Medical Anthropology; Society for Psychological Anthropology LANGUAGES English, French, Liberian English (Pidgin) Yüklə 76,53 Kb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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