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- Hometown:
- Los Angeles
- About Me:
- With regional concentrations in Latin America and the United States, my broader research interests encompass a range of international development, health disparity, migrant health, and minority health issues. For my dissertation, I examined how political economy, cultural factors and social relations interacted in health care seeking decision-making among poor and lower-middle-income households in Nicaragua. This study provided an in-depth analysis of changes in health care services concordant with major shifts in the global and local political economy from the late 1970s through 2003, including the impact of contemporary structural adjustment policies and international development interventions in the sphere of health care. In my present position as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, and the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, I seek to integrate my longstanding interests in tobacco control with my ongoing research on the political economy of health within the US and Latin America. My current work explores the impact of the tobacco industry's philanthropy programs on social sector funding.
- Area(s) of Training
- applied anthropology, cultural anthropology, medical anthropology
- Area(s) of Expertise
- International Health, Health Care Seeking, Tobacco Control, Health Disparities
- Most Recent Degree
- PhD
- Current Area of Employment
- UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education
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If you are around on Wednesday of the 2008 SfAA meetings, please consider coming to this session, an open forum organized on behalf of the Public Policy committee, to participate and help support the cause of education in public policy engagement.
(W-41) WEDNESDAY 12:00-1:30
Heritage II
Open Forum on Uses of Language in Public Policy
CHAIR: HEYMAN, Josiah (U Texas-El Paso)
The focus will be the ways that formal, policy oriented language articulates with communities, scholars, and other language communities in the policy process (that is, it is not a forum on the policy of language, but the language of policy).
See you in Memphis,
Joe Heyman
Thanks for your friendship!
Betsy