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Anat Rosenthal, PhD

About Anat Rosenthal, PhD
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.

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Academic
Fellow
Researcher

Organization

Global Health Delivery Project
Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States 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.
Harvard Medical School, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine
Website: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/ Type: Academic Institution Country: United States 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.

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United States

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English
Hebrew

Recent Contributions

Anat Rosenthal, PhD replied to "Barriers to ART delivery during complex emergencies" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi all, Thank you Mona for starting this discussion. Ziad - your experiences with patients from Zimbabwe in SA resonate with my experiences with asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Israel who are afraid of disclosing their health status even to NGO workers in fear of deportation or loss of asylum seeker status. Do you have any experience with successful "invitation" of such patients into care programs? Best, Anat
Anat Rosenthal, PhD replied to "Comprehensive Pediatric HIV Retention Programs?" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hello Alexander, All, Certainly, there are obstacles to adherence that are unique to pediatric care. Here are some sources I came across while searching for comprehensive models to retain pediatric HIV patients. I’m sure it is not a complete list but it is a start… Here are some resources from organizations who are addressing this: - The Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative (BIPAI) publishes some strategies on how to improve adherence in their Toolkit (http://bayloraids.org/toolkit/)—see ...
Anat Rosenthal, PhD replied to "PEP in context of complex emergency: congo experience" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hello all, Thank you Lutala and Ann for putting forward these questions. Dealing with the same issues, the following editorial was published in PLoS Medicine and discusses the role of medical professionals in the international response to rape. It seems that so many health professionals are dealing with the results of war related rape, whether they are HIV or trauma, and yet the international community is failing at responding. Here's the link: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000021 Best, Anat
Anat Rosenthal, PhD replied to "Barriers to ART delivery during complex emergencies" in the Adherence & Retention community.

Hi Ziad, Thank you for the reference. I agree that there are ethical problems in conducting research without providing care but even under circumstances where care is provided underground populations remain hard to reach. In a project I was involved with we faced difficulties when inviting potential patients to receive services in NGO settings. After many struggles it was understood that an effective strategy to contact undocumented migrants and asylum seekers would have to involve ...
Anat Rosenthal, PhD started a discussion "Nursing Crisis - Christine Gorman's blog" in the Global Health Nursing & Midwifery community.

Dear community members, Lately I came across Christine Gorman’s blog (http://globalhealthreport.blogspot.com/), especially her reports on the nursing crisis in Malawi. As both the Malawian health care system and the nurses in Malawi are close to my heart and my work, I found Gorman’s reports to be engaging and thought provoking and thought the members of the community might find them interesting. See also Gorman’s video featured on CNN and accessible on the blog. Best, Anat

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