Country:
United States of America
Languages:
English, Hebrew
Roles / Professions:
Academic, Fellow, Researcher
Bio:
Anat Rosenthal, Ph.D., is a Medical Anthropologist and a Fulbright research Fellow in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She has conducted fieldwork in Israel and Malawi on the social and cultural effects of AIDS, health policy, and undocumented migration, and also worked with the Israeli AIDS Task force on developing prevention and care programs for undocumented migrant populations. Her current research focuses on the impact of AIDS on kinship systems and social institutions, and on the impact of ART roll-out on clients and health professionals in rural Malawi. She received her PhD in Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her published work focuses on migration and health, and health policy and AIDS care. As a GHD Fellow, Anat focuses on GHDonline communities and on other research and development activities.
Organizations:
Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/
Type: Non-Governmental Organization
Country: United States of America
About: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project is working to systematize the study of health care delivery, to disseminate new learning to practitioners, and improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings.
Website: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/
Type: Academic Institution
Country: United States of America
About: DGHSM is an interdisciplinary basic science department focused on both teaching and conducting research about the social, cultural and moral aspects of illness and health care, with a special emphasis on reducing health disparities and improving the quality of medical care. Central to the mission of the Department is an effort to address significant global health problems affecting resource-poor societies and underserved American communities. Members of the Department develop innovative interventions for dealing with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, mental illnesses, and drug abuse in resource poor settings.