Hometown:
Summit, New Jersey
About Me:
Returned to New Jersey after living in Nepal for three years-revisitng field site of past 25 years and continued ethnopsychiatric (re)study. Also, worked in HIV/AIDS while in Nepal (injection drug use, stigma and discrimination among people with HIV/AIDS), following up on 10 years of street ethnography with IDUs in US. Now organizing and supporting in-country teams and writing up socio-behavioral studies on infectious disease and vaccine use in developing societies in a number of Asian countries.
Area(s) of Training
cultural anthropology, ethnography, ethnology, medical anthropology, public health
Area(s) of Expertise
AIDS, VACCINES, PSYCHIATRIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Current Area of Employment
International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea
