and the individual. Dressler and colleagues have examined these factors in settings as diverse as urban Great Britain, the Southeast United States, the West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil. His recent work emphasizes concepts and methods for examining the health effects of individual efforts to achieve culturally defined goals and aspirations. His research has been funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Mounia El Kotni is a medical anthropologist (PhD SUNY Albany, 2016) and postdoctoral researcher at the Cems-EHESS in Paris, France, and Fondation de France Research Fellow (2019–2021). She has been conducting research in Chiapas, Mexico, since 2013 on the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth and on traditional midwives’ rights. More recently, her research has focused on the intersection between reproductive and environmental justice.
Ruth Fitzgerald is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She researches in the field of medical anthropology with a focus on ideologies of health, the cultural significance of new medical technologies, and moral reasoning and genetic testing with a geographic focus on Aotearoa, New Zealand. She was awarded the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand for her work in medical anthropology and is currently the general editor of Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. She continues to collaborate with Julie Park and Michael Legge on publications in the everyday ethics of reproductive decision-making and genetic testing and teaches across the graduate and postgraduate programs of Social Anthropology and the First Year Health Sciences program at Otago.
Alan Goodman, professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political–economic processes including poverty, inequality, and racism. He received his BS and PhD from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the National Institute of Nutrition, Mexico, and a research fellow in stress physiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He previously served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty and Dean of Natural Sciences at Hampshire and is a past President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). He codirects the AAA’s public education project on race (understandingrace.org). Goodman has written over one hundred articles and is the editor or author of eight books including Building a New Biocultural Synthesis, Nutritional Anthropology, and Race: Are We So Different? His forthcoming book is Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (with Joseph Graves, 2021, Columbia).
Ashley L. Graham is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the anthropological study of risk, environmental disasters, infectious disease epidemics, vaccines, and global health governance. Graham’s most recent publications address the use of novel vaccines and the risk of coronaviruses in pregnancy, respectively. She also works for The Task Force for Global Health, a global health organization based in Atlanta, GA, where her work centers on global health ethics and cultivating resilience.
Clarence C. Gravlee is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, with affiliate appointments in African American Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race and Racism. His research aims to explain and address how systemic racism harms health and corrupts medical research and practice. He is former editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, co-founder (with M. Miaisha Mitchell) of the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT), and co-editor (with H. Russell Bernard) of the Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). His work has appeared in public-facing venues such as Scientific American andSomatosphere, and in a wide range of scholarly journals, including American Anthropologist, American Journal of Public Health, Annual Review of Anthropology, American Journal of Human Biology, Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and more.
Deven Gray is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Gray is a medical anthropologist with a focus on infectious disease, especially concerning mosquito-borne infectious diseases such as Zika virus and dengue fever. He has multiple field seasons of experience in the country of Belize conducting mixed-methods ethnographic and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research on epidemic and pandemic response efforts, researching policies and interventions that influence the management or health consequences of disease. Since 2018, Gray has served as an assistant editor for the applied anthropology journal Human Organization, and recently he has gotten involved with the University of South Florida’s Center for the Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities (CAFSHC) to explore the effectiveness of food bank home delivery programs piloted in response to COVID-19.
David Himmelgreen is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Food Security & Healthy Communities at the University of South Florida. Himmelgreen is a biocultural nutritional anthropologist with expertise in maternal-child nutrition, growth and development, food security, dietary change and health, and community nutrition programming. He has conducted research in Costa Rica, Lesotho, India, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2014 to 2021. Since 2015, he has been involved in multiple projects addressing food insecurity in Tampa Bay. Himmelgreen is currently conducting research on a food prescription program, college student food insecurity, and diabetes self-management during COVID-19. He has over 100 publications and has received funding from NSF, USDA, Fulbright Commission, state agencies, and private and corporate foundations for research and programs aimed at reducing food insecurity and improving health.
Craig R. Janes is Professor and Director of the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His current work focuses on the intersections of anthropogenic environmental change and global health systems, including a countrywide study of the impact of climate change on the livelihoods and health of Mongolian pastoralists, assessments of the public health consequences of global resource extraction in Mongolia and Zambia, and a coupled social-ecological systems approach to identifying and mitigating the impacts of flooding regimes on the access to essential health services in western Zambia. He has also investigated the effects of globalized health systems reform programs on indigenous health systems, access to health services, and maternal health outcomes. In addition to his work in Mongolia and Zambia, he has conducted research in the United States, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Argentina, and Samoa. He is a past Board Chair and National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, a Fellow of the Balsillie School for International Affairs in Waterloo, and with his colleagues in Zambia codirects the Zambezi Ecohealth Partnership.
Thomas Leatherman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a biocultural anthropologist whose work adresses social change, inequalities, and health in Latin America and the U.S.. Work in the Yucatan of Mexico has focused on the social, nutritional and health impacts of the rapid growth of tourism-based economies, and the “coca-colonization” of diets in the Yucatan. Long term research in the southern Peruvian Andes focused on the co-constitutive nature of poverty, inequality and illness, and the links between structural violence and the political violence manifested in a 20 year civil war (1980-2000). Recent work and interests are on shifts in regional economies, food security and health in a post-conflict Peru. He co-edited Medical Pluralism in the Andes with Joan Koss and Christine Greenway (2004), and Building a Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology (1998) with Alan Goodman; part of a long term theoretical interest in developing and expanding a more critical biocultural anthropology.
Jennifer Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and cross-appointed in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her work intersects with science and technology studies (STS) and global health. Her studies include ethnographic analyses of stem
