Post-doctoral Fellows

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Medical Anthropology and Global Health Delivery Fellows

Anat Rosenthal

Dr. Rosenthal is a Fulbright research fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel and Malawi on the social and cultural effects of HIV/AIDS, health policy and undocumented migration. Her current research focuses on the impact of AIDS on kinship systems and social institutions and the strategies rural communities adopt to cope with orphans and vulnerable children, and on the impact of the role-out of ART in rural Malawi on clients and health professionals. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her published work focuses on migration and health; health policy and HIV care; research methods and HIV/AIDS in rural communities in Malawi.

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Global Health Delivery Fellows

Mona Haidar

Dr. Haidar is Research Fellow in Global Health Delivery. She is visiting Harvard during 2008-09 from Lesotho, where she is Bobete Clinic Director for the Lesotho HIV Rural Initiative of Partners In Health Lesotho. Dr. Haidar has been invited to Harvard Medical School to participate in research and development of academic products for the Global Health Delivery program, including case writing, curriculum development, and related activities. She also is involved with developing the social medicine curriculum to be used at Lebanese American University, where she acts as a consultant.

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Independent Research Fellows

Tahir Amin

Mr. Amin is a lawyer, founder and director of Initiative for Medicines, Access and Knowledge. He specializes in intellectual property and is currently researching the impact of international pharmaceutical patents on the health needs of developing countries.

Joseph Calabrese

Dr. Calabrese has an M.A. in anthropology and a Ph.D. in psychology. He was a fellow in Culture and Mental Health Services last year. His research focuses on the study of sociocultural factors influencing health, clinical services, and health-related social policies. One line of this research is the analysis of cultural diversity in clinical situations, including cultural conflicts related to health care, the provision of culturally relevant clinical services, and cultural assumptions and orientations that underlie the definition of “the normal.” He is also interested in the social stigma that surrounds mental illness and how its negative effects on illness experience and course can be mitigated through cognitive as well as social interventions. For his dissertation project, he spent two years on the Navajo Indian reservation studying the incorporation of healing rituals, including the Peyote Ceremony, into federally funded treatment programs. He is writing a book based on this research.

John Driscoll

Dr. Driscoll is an attending physician at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center and former chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. Dr. Driscoll has studied decision making in the NICU with Dr. Betty Levin, an anthropologist, and participated in the Medical Ethics Fellowship during 2007-08. Based on his experience in the HMS fellowship, he plans to intensify his teaching of medical ethics to medical students and pediatric residents, focusing on humanism in medicine.

Sadeq Rahimi

Dr. Rahimi completed his doctoral studies in transcultural psychiatry at McGill in 2005. He is studying the role culture plays in the experience of first-diagnosis schizophrenia patients in Turkey, within the context of Byron Good’s multi-sited International Pilot Study of the Onset of Schizophrenia. He is investigating the culture-specific cognitive models employed by patients and their families and relating them to the WHO finding that the course of schizophrenia is different in developed vs. developing nations.

Elizabeth Wahl

Dr. Wahl is a medical anthropologist who is studying the control of endemic hepatitis B among the Kandosi and Shapra of the Northern Peruvian Amazon. She is preparing a manuscript on this subject.

Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy

Fellows in the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy are appointed in Harvard Medical School through the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. This fellowship program is based in the HMS Minority Faculty Development Program.

Appointees in 2009-10:

  • Jaya Aysola, M.D.
  • Lyle Ignace, M.D.
  • Kamilah Jackson, M.D.
  • Alden Landry, M.D.
  • Susan Saucedo, M.D.
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