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Visiting Research Scholar
email: aanderma@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-7386
Office:  353 Wallace Hall

Anne Andermann is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.  As a public health physician and family doctor, she combines clinical work, research, teaching and public health practice.  Her main research interests focus on decision making for health from patient choice to global policy.  As a Rhodes Scholar she completed a doctoral degree in public health at the University of Oxford in the area of women's health, risk communication and informed choice.  As a researcher for the Quebec Health Technology Assessment Agency she developed a decision guide for genetic screening policy-making that makes explicit the ethical dilemmas often inherent to such decisions.  More recently, as a staff member at the World Health Organization in Geneva, she worked on strengthening research capacity in developing and transitional countries.  She was also a member of the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee and a contributor to the World Health Report on increasing universal access to primary health care.  Anne continues to work as a consultant for WHO, as well as for state and local public health agencies.  While at Princeton, in addition to her research, Anne will be teaching the undergraduate and graduate level epidemiology courses as part of the Global Health and Health Policy programs.

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Visiting Research Scholar
email: jcurrie@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-7393
Office: 316 Wallace Hall

Janet Currie is the Sami Mnaymneh Professor of Economics at Columbia University and Director of the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research.  She has served on several National Academy of Sciences panels incuding the Committee on Population, and on the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association.  She has also served as a consultant for the National Health Interview Survey and the National Longitudinal Surveys.  She is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, an affiliate of the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center, and an affiliate of IZA in Bonn.  She is on the advisory board of the National Children's Study and on the editorial board of the Quarterly Journal of Economics.  She has served several other journals in an editorial capacity including the Journal of Health Economics, the Journal of Labor Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics.

Her research focuses on the health and wellbeing of children.  She has written about early intervention programs, programs to expand health insurance and improve health care, public housing, and food and nutrition programs.  Much of this research is summarized in "The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and Families," Princeton University Press, which has just been released in paperback.  Janet's current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in child health, and on environmental threats to children's health from sources such as toxic pollutants and fast food.

 

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Visiting Research Scholar
email: ile@princeton.edu
Phone: 609-258-8276
Office: 326 Wallace Hall

Ingrid le Roux is a Swedish physician who has spent most of her professional life working in Africa.  She is the medical director of a non-governmental child health organization operating in the informal settings on the outskirts of Cape Town.  Her work focuses on the medical care and nutrition rehabilitation of malnourished children and the treatment and care of HIV positive women and children.

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Post-doctoral Research Associate
email: plocke@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-8599
Office: 356 Wallace Hall

Peter Locke comes to CHW from Princeton's Department of Anthropology, where he completed his Ph.D. in September 2009.  Peter received his BA in anthropology in 2001 from the University of Virginia, and came to Princeton in 2003 with a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities.  His research and teaching interests are in cultural and medical anthropology, ethnographic research methods, mental health and humanitarian interventions, and global health initiatives.  He carried out ethnographic research in Bosnia-Herzegovina, where he investigated the social and medical impact of post-war mental health services.  His research and writing have been funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board and the American Council of Learned Societies.  His dissertation, "City of Survivors," charts everyday forms of resilience in Sarajevo in order to ground debates about social responsibility, humanitarian aid, and health care needs in the aftermath of war.  His new research explores changing patterns and institutions of mental health care in the context of new political economies in post-socialist Eastern Europe.  At CHW, he contributes to the Grand Challenges Initiative in Global Health and Infectious Disease and engages students working toward the Global Health and Health Policy certificate.

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Visiting Research Scholar
email: alucas@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-6917
Office: 361 Wallace Hall

Adrienne Lucas' research focuses on development and growth economics, with a particular interest in disease and human capital accumulation.  Her current work includes studies on tropical diseases, free primary education in sub-Saharan Africa, and the importance of schooling inputs in the human capital production function.  She is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College and received her Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University in 2006.

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Post-doctoral Research Associate
email: amunch@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-7648
Office: 315 Wallace Hall

Anna Münch is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at CHW.  Together with Burton Singer she is working currently on a project about socio-sanitary interventions to nomadic pastoralists in the Sahel.  Between 2003 and 2007 she undertook research in the North of Mali and built up a network of West African research and development institutions collaborating in the "West African Nomadic Pastoralist Research Group."  Her main interest focuses on a 'one health' approach, on local illness hermeneutics, illness semantics, help seeking behavior, as well as on methodological bridges between humanities, social sciences and natural sciences, between North and South, but also between research and development as a transdisciplinary process between research and society.  She holds a Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Bern, 2007, but wrote an interdisciplinary dissertation about health perception and healthcare of Tamasheq nomads in Northern Mali.  

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Post-doctoral Research Associate
email: gpkanter@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-5514
Office: 261 Wallace Hall

Genevieve (Genny) Pham-Kanter is a postdoctoral fellow with joint appointments in the Office of Population Research and the Center for Health and Wellbeing.  She is trained in ecomomics and sociology and is interested in research questions in both fields.

Substantively, Genny's research focuses on health, inequality and stratification, and non-market aspects of market transactions.

One strand of her research focuses on the biological and behavioral mechanisms through which different kinds of inequality produce disparities in health. Her current research in this area looks at some of the physical implications of cultural conditions (for example, son preference).

A second strand is concerned with studying resurgence in the popularity of complementary and alternative medicine.  She is interested in examining social and economic determinants of the demand for non-mainstream medicine and the population health implications of this demand.

A third strand of her research looks at how social norms, taboos, and other aspects of culture influence market transactions.  She is particularly interested in understanding social constraints on market transactions involving the human body.

Although her research is largely quantitative, she would be interested in collaborating with qualitative and quantitative social researchers, clinicians and biomedical researchers, and historians and philosophers who are working in these areas.

Genny received her Ph.D. in Economics and in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 2009.  Prior to graduate school, she spent two years working in southern Africa.

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Visiting Fellow
email: ssinger@princeton.edu
Phone: (609) 258-8272
Office: 355 Wallace Hall

Sara Singer, MBA, Ph.D., graduated from Princeton in 1986 with a degree in English.  She later earned an MBA at Stanford and a Ph.D. at Harvard. Dr. Singer is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard School of Public Health and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital.  Her research uses organizational safety, organizational learning, leadership theories and mixed qualitative and quantitative methods to understand and improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of health care organizations.  Recent research measured safety climate in more than 100 hospitals, explored variation in safety climate within and among hospitals, and examined the relationship of safety climate and safety performance.  Her current research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to improve safety by enhancing learning-oriented leadership.  Dr. Singer developed and teaches a Masters level course at the Harvard School of Public Health, entitled Health Care Organizations and Organizational Behavior: Leadership and Management of Learning, Innovation, and Performance Improvement.  She also advises Doctoral and Masters-degree students at the School of Public Health.  Dr. Singer is a Visiting Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson School's Center for Health and Wellbeing for academic year 2009-10.

Visiting Professor
email: kwailoo@princeton.edu
Phone: (609-258-0969
Office: 206 Stanhope Hall


Professor Keith Wailoo, Ph.D., is an historian of medicine and the biomedical sciences.  In July 2001, he joined the faculty of Rutgers University as Professor of History jointly appointed to the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research.  Previously, he served nine years on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and one year as a visiting professor of the History of Science and Afro-American Studies at Harvard University.  He received his Ph.D. in the History and Sociology of Science in 1992 from the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Wailoo's first book, Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth-Century American (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997) - exploring the benefits, pitfalls, and complexities associated with technology in 20th century hematology and medicine - received the 1997 Arthur Viseltear Award from the American Public Health Association.  His most recent book, Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) examines the disease's early 20th century invisibility, its gradual rise to clinical, scientific, and political prominence, and the changing socio-political significance into the era of managed care.

Professor Wailoo has taught courses on a wide range of topics, including: Pain, Medicine, and Society in America; Medicine, the Family, and the Politics of Child Health; Disease in Historical Perspective; 'Racial Health' and the American South; Genetics, Race, and Medicine; The Politics of Patienthood; and Medicine and Society in America.

In 1999 he received the prestigious James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellowship in the History of Science - a $1,000,000 award to examine the history of cancer, immunology, genetics, and pain in the biomedical sciences and in 20th century society.  He has also received awards and grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Center for Human Genome Research (Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues Program), and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund.