BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH TO USE FOR GRANT WRITING
 
Name Position - Title
Mark Nichter Professor of Anthropology
Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Institution and Location Degree (if applicable) Years Field of Study
George Washington University BA 1971 Psychology
University of Edinburgh, Scotland MA, Ph.D. 1973,1977 Social Anthropology
John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health MPH 1978 International Health
 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1981-1983

  Post-Doctoral Training, Clinically Applied Anthropology, University of Hawaii School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry.
1983-1983   Fulbright Professor, Sri Lanka, Post Graduate Institute of Medicine, Health Education Bureau, Ministry of Health.
1986-1997   Social Science Advisor for the Rockefeller Foundation Office of Health.
1986-1998   Social Science Advisor for the International Network for Clinical Epidemiology (INCLEN).
1985-present   Professor and Head of Medical Anthropology Graduate Program, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Frequent consultant for WHO, UNICEF, USAID, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, Robert Wood Johnson, HIID, INCLEN

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

1993-1994 Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Preventing Nicotine Dependency in Children and Youths. 
1993-1996 Associate Editor, Medical Anthropology.Editorial Board, Health Transition Review; Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
1997-present Core member of the Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence (TERN), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
1998- 2000 Public Policy Committee American Anthropological Association
2001-present
President Society for Medical Anthropology

 

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

1976 Radcliffe-Brown Award, United Kingdom.
1977 NIH Scholarship to study public health
1980-82 NIMH grant to undertake a postdoc in clinical anthropology
1983 Fulbright Professorship in Health Education and the Anthropology of Health, Sri Lanka.
1988-1993 NICHD grant to conduct study, Food Intake, Dieting, and Smoking among Adolescent Females.
1989 Margaret Mead Award, American Anthropological Association.
1992 Rudolph Virchow Award, American Anthropological Association