Reserachers working on


HEALTH


(alphabetical order)

Barbara Anne ANDERSEN
Lecturer, School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Chimbu (Papua New Guinea), Eastern Highlands (Papua New Guinea)
Places: Melanesia, Eastern Highlands, Chimbu, Papua New Guinea
Keywords: Development, Education, Health, Social Change, Youth, Class, Biomedicine, Health Workers, Housing, Security

Apo APOROSA
Research Fellow, Anthropology Department/School of Psychology at The University of Waikato, New Zealand

Administrative areas: Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu, New Zealand
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Development Studies, Education, Kava/Yaqona, Cognition, Health, Applied Anthropology, Community Development, Cultural Studies, Customary Law, Decolonisation

Dani BARRINGTON
Lecturer, School of Civil Engineering at University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea
Places: Australia (area), Melanesia
Keywords: Water Resources, Sanitation, Development Studies, Participation, Health, Hygiene, Menstruation, Toilets, Water

Gaia COTTINO
Research Fellow, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche at Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy

Administrative areas: Tonga, Hawaii
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Body, Health, Food and Nutrition, Non Communicable Diseases, Global Health, Agriculture, Gardens

Francoise DUSSART
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at University of Connecticut, United States

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Art, Ceremonial discourse, Gender, Health, Chronic Illness, Christianity, Citizenship, Religion and the Media, Land Tenure

Daniela HEIL
Senior Lecturer, Sociology and Anthropology at University of Newcastle, Australia

Administrative areas: Australia, New South Wales (Australia), Western Australia (Australia), Northern Territory (Australia)
Places: Australia (area)
Keywords: Body, Chronic Illness, Cultural Change, Health, Indigenous Epistemology, Ilness Experience, Indigenous Politics, Indigenous/non-Indigenous Relations, Personhood, Medical Anthropology

Franziska A. HERBST
Research Fellow, Department of Palliative Medicine at Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Biomedicine, Medical Technology, Health, Ilness Experience, Relatedness, Personhood, Chronic Illness, Body, Agency

Verena KECK
Lecturer, Institute of Anthropology, at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Administrative areas: Guam, Papua New Guinea
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia
Keywords: Colonial Discourse, Health, Migration, Personhood, Religion, Social Change, Age and Aging, Identity

Fabienne LABBÉ
Research Fellow, Section Infectious Diseases and Immunization at Quebec Institute of Public Health, Canada

Administrative areas: Fiji, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Health, Sexuality, Gender, Ilness Experience, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Medical Anthropology, Applied Anthropology, Engaged Anthropology, Emotions

Amy K. MCLENNAN
Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Administrative areas: Australia, Nauru
Places: Australia (area), Micronesia
Keywords: Anthropological Field Records, Biomedicine, Social-ecological System, Political Ecology, Narratives, Mining, Interdisciplinarity, Globalization, Health, Food and Nutrition

Marika MOISSEEFF
Research Fellow, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale at CNRS - Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique, France

Administrative areas: Australia
Places: Australia (area), South Australia
Keywords: Cosmology, Death and Bereavement, Emotions, Gender, Health, Identity, Indigenous Politics, Justice, Kinship, Landscape

Emilie NOLET
Associate Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology (UFR 03) at University Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne, France

Administrative areas: French Polynesia
Places: Polynesia
Keywords: Material Culture, Colonial Process, Christianisation, Cultural Heritage, Ethnographic Encounter, French Polynesia, Health, Housing, Indigenous Agency, Medical Anthropology

Geir Henning PRESTERUDSTUEN
Lecturer, School of Social Sciences and Psychology at Western Sydney University, Australia

Administrative areas: Fiji, Australia
Places: Fiji Islands
Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Ethnicity, Gender, Gender Violence, Health, Monsters, Post-Colonialism, Christianity, Body, Violence

Alice SERVY
Lecturer, SAGE Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe at University of Strasbourg, France

Administrative areas: Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Kiribati, French Polynesia
Places: Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
Keywords: Health, Sexuality, Gender, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Family Planning, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Sex Workers, Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM), Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), Sexual Assaults

Frank WEIGELT
Senior Lecturer, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at University of Hamburg, Germany

Administrative areas: Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Indonesia, New Caledonia
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Agency, Applied Anthropology, Class, Colonial Discourse, Cognitive Anthropology, Colonialism, Conflict, Conflict Management, Cultural Change, Cultural Heritage

Alexandra (Sandra) WIDMER
Assistant Professor, Anthropolgy Dept at York University, Canada

Administrative areas: Vanuatu
Places: Melanesia
Keywords: Colonialism, Food and Nutrition, Gender, Health, Medical Anthropology, Metabolic Disorders, Modernity, Post-Colonialism, Nursing And Midwifery, Reproduction

Heather YOUNG-LESLIE
Associate Professor, Office of the Vice-President, Research at University of Alberta, Canada

Administrative areas: Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Hawaii, New Zealand, Fiji
Places: Polynesia, Melanesia
Keywords: Biomedicine, Development, Gender, Health, Health Workers, Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), Textiles / Fibre Arts, Body Theory, Mothering, Maternalisms