| December 1978 |
Session leader: Issues in
Methodology in Medical Anthropology. International Anthropological and Ethnological
Sciences Conference, Plenary Session on Medical Anthropology. Pune, India. |
| April 1980 |
U.S.A.I.D., New Delhi.
Bilateral conference of nutritional status and infant mortality. Presentation on cultural
factors effecting nutritional status data collection, and public response to the
introduction of weaning foods. U.S.A.I.D., New Delhi, India. |
| November 1980 |
Workshop on methodological
issues in nutritional anthropology. Sponsored by the United Nations University and the
World Hunger Program. |
| August 1981 |
Presentation: Working within
the Metaphor: An anthropological approach to interpersonal communication and patient
interviewing. Presentation delivered at the Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto,
California. |
| January 1982 |
Workshop: Indian Government
Task Force. Workshop on the basic health educator and primary care. East-West Center
Population Institute, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| March 1982 |
Workshop conducted on ethnic
dietary patterns, concepts of health and nutrition education. Hawaiian Dietary
Association, Honolulu |
| December 1982 |
American Anthropological
Association Conference, Washington, D.C. Presentation on the role of anthropology in
primary health care. |
| February 1983 |
A series of three workshops
were presented on clinician patient communication and methods of enhancing patient talk
group sessions to Kekela in-patient psychiatry staff, Queens Hospital, Hawaii. |
| March 1983 |
Presentation: Issues in
International Health Promotion. First International Symposium on Public Health in Asia and
the Pacific Basin. |
| March 1983 |
Applied Anthropological
Association Meeting, San Diego "Clinical Anthropologist as Therapy Facilitator." |
| June 1983 |
Workshop on nutritional field
methods for anthropology. Commission on the Anthropology of Food and Food Problems.
Boston: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, [Participant] |
| June 1983 |
Presentation: National Council
for International Health. Invited Paper. The Health Culture of Malnutrition among South
Indian Children: Traditional Health Care as Primary Health Care. |
| July 1983 |
Presentation "The Rhetoric
of Self." Humanities Forum, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. |
| May 1984 |
Presentation: "Toward an
Understanding of Adolescent Suicide in Sri Lanka." Sri Jayawardnapura University, Sri
Lanka. |
| July 1984 |
Presentation: Analyzing Health
Culture as a Means Toward developing Culturally Appropriate Nutrition Education Materials.
CARE, Sri Lanka. |
| Sept. 1984 |
Presentation: The Role of
Anthropology in Health Education. Presentation: The Role of Ayurveda in Primary Health
Care. Second International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine, Surabaya, Indonesia. |
| Dec. 1985 |
Presentation: Health Care
Expenditure Among the Poor and the Commodification of Health in India. American
Anthropological Association Meeting, Session on Permanence and Change in Asian Health
Care. Washington, D.C. |
| April 1987 |
Presentation: Health as
Digestion: From Metaphor to Metonym. Association for Asian Studies Meeting, Boston. |
|
Presentation: Obesity and the
Embodiment of Control in American Culture. (Co-authored with Cheryl Ritenbaugh). Meeting
of the Association for the Study of Food in Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan |
| Dec. 1987 |
Presentation: Vaccinations, the
Users Perspective. American Anthropological Association Meeting, Session on Vaccinations:
an anthropological perspective, Chicago. |
| April 1988 |
Member: Technical Advisory
Group, Rockefeller Foundation Health Transition project. Arrowood, New York. |
|
Presentation: The
Commodification of Health and Pharmaceutical Behavior in South Asia. Invited Speaker: Case
Western Reserve University, Department of Anthropology Medical Anthropology Program. |
| May 1988 |
Presentation: Working with the
metaphor interview technique. Video presentation to Interactional analysis workshop,
Michigan State University. |
|
Discussant: Medical
anthropologist member of Ford Foundation International Health Workshop on the Household
Production of Health. St. Michaels, Maryland. |
| June 1988 |
Member: Technical Advisory
Group, Rockefeller Foundation. Social Science and International Health Program Development
Working Group. |
| Sept. 1988 |
Presentation: Top-Down Versus
Bottom-Up Perspectives on Health Planning in Developing Countries. University of
Pennsylvania, School of Medicine. Keynote Speaker. |
| October 1988 |
Presentation and Workshop
Facilitator: Dengue Control: The Challenge to the Social Sciences. Johns Hopkins School of
Public Health, Rockefeller Foundation. |
| November 1988 |
Presentation: (with Mimi
Nichter) Hype and weight: the embodiment of cultural values and the cultural manipulation
of body image. American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, Arizona. Invited paper/slide
show, Nutritional Anthropology Sponsored Session. |
|
Presentation: The Question of
Medicine Answering: Sri Lankan perceptions of treatment efficacy. American Anthropological
Association, Phoenix, Arizona. |
| December 1988 |
Presentation: Diarrhea and
Dysentery: Using Social Science Research to Develop Appropriate Health Care Messages.
Asian Workshop on the Invasive Diarrheas. Sponsored by the Harvard Institute of
International Development and the New England Medical Center, Mahidol University, Bangkok,
Thailand. Invited paper. |
| January 1989 |
Presentation: Medical Education
in India and Receptivity Toward Clinical Epidemiology: the INCLEN baseline study of three
sponsored and control institutions. International Clinical Epidemiology Network annual
meetings, Goa, India. |
| April 1989 |
Presentation: Anthropology and
ARI: Applying Lessons from Research on Diarrhea to ARI. Applied Anthropology Meetings,
Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| November 1989 |
Presentation: Anthropology and
ARI: An overview of the Filipino knowledge and Practice Study--methods and significant
findings. American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, Washington, D.C. |
|
Facilitator International Child
Health Foundation Workshop on Cereal Based Oral Rehydration, Aga Khan Foundation, Karachi,
Pakistan. |
| January 1990 |
Presentation: The Household
Production of Health: Documenting the Relative Contribution of Pluralistic Therapy
Systems. International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine, Bombay,
India. |
|
Workshop on Social Science
Initiatives among International Agencies: Collaborative Possibilities and the Issue of
Sustainability, Rockefeller Foundation, Puebla, Mexico. |
| November 1990 |
Presentation: (with Liz
Cartwright) Saving the Children for the Tobacco Industry. American Anthropological
Association Meetings, New Orleans. |
|
Presentation: On the Alchemy of
Work and the Lessons Gained from the Witnessing of Suffering in other Lifeworlds. American
Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans. |
| January 1991 |
Presentation: Navigating in
Uncharted Waters, the Oriental Mindoro ARI Methodology Project. Annual Meeting of the
International Clinical Epidemiology Network, Mombasa, Kenya. |
| April 1991 |
Presentation: An
Anthropologist's Impressions of the Holistic Health Movement. Holistic Medical Association
Meeting, Breckenridge, Colorado. |
| October 1991 |
Keynote address. Anthropology
and Pharmaceutical Behavior: Research Priorities. WHO sponsored International Conference
on Pharmaceutical Behavior. University of Amsterdam. Oct. 17-21. |
| August 1992 |
Keynote address. Medicine Use
in the Context of Social Transformation: Lessons from the Third World and their Relevance
for the First World. Sydney, Australia: Australian Government SHAPE Pharmaceutical Policy
Workshop. |
| December 1992 |
An Ethnography of the TB/Weak
Lungs Complex in the Philippines, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San
Francisco. |
| January 1993 |
Workshop: Pharmaceutical
Behavior in the Third World Context, Harvard Institute of International Development
(ADDR), Cairo, Egypt. |
| March 1993 |
Presentation: Are Immunization
Programs Sustainable? Consumer Demand for Immunization in the Third World. WHO sponsored
conference on Social Science Perspectives of Immunizations. University of Iowa. |
| May 1993 |
Workshop Facilitator; Health
Social Science Research in South/Southeast Asia, Bangkok, Thailand. INCLEN. |
| November 1995 |
Semantics of Addiction (with
Gilbert Quintero). American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington, DC |
|
Rethinking Household and
Community in the Context of International Health. American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Washington, DC. |
| May 1996 |
Workshop Facilitator: Health
Social Science and (re)emergent Diseases, Madras, India, May 20-24. |
| July 1996 |
Keynote Address: Adolescent
Sexuality, Reproductive Health and Male Responsibility. Pan Asian Conference on Adolescent
Reproductive Health and Violence Against Women. Kanchanaburi, Thailand. |
| August 1996 |
Conference Coordinator and
Keynote Speech, Community Based Dengue Control: What Have We Learned and What is the Next
Step? Conference funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in conjunction with CDC. Merida,
Mexico, August 18-23. |
| September 1996 |
Invited Speaker: Preventing
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: Popular practices in Asia and beyond. University of
Amsterdam Department of Anthropology. |
| November 1996 |
Keynote Address: Participation
in Community Health Care Programs: Are We Ready to Move Beyond Rhetoric to Consider
Methods and the Politics of the Possible? Participatory Design Conference, Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility. MIT, Cambridge, Mass |
| December 1996 |
Invited paper: Digestion and
the Centrality of Bodily Communication in the Social and Emotional Lives of South Indians.
International Conference on Healing, Power, and Modernity. University of Newcastle,
Australia. |
| February 1997 |
Keynote address: Assessing
cultural perceptions of vulnerability to disease and social concerns about responsibility
for health action as a complement to epidemiological research on risk. INCLEN, CDC/FETP
annual conference, Penang, Malaysia. |
| April 1997 |
Keynote address: Pharmaceutical
Practice: A Social and Cultural Assessment and Call for Collaborative Action.
International Conference on Improving Use of Medicines: State of the Art and Future
Directions. Chang Mai, Thailand. |
| May 1998 |
Invited paper: Cultural
Traditions and Public Health Interventions: Walking the tight rope between respecting
cultural differences and fostering social change. Public Health in the 21st
Century: behavioral and Social Science Contributions May 8, Atlanta, Georgia (organized by
APA and CDC). |
| October 1998 |
Presentation: What does
Anthropology have to contribute to the study of Tobacco consumption patterns and pathways
to nicotine dependency: TERN meeting, Providence, Rhode Island. |
| March 1999 |
Symposium; Preventing Tobacco
use: Molecular to marketplace research. Presenting an ethnic and cultural influences on
the meaning and use of Tobacco. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco. San Diego. |
|
Invited Symposium: [and
Pimpawan Boonmogkon, Kornkaew Chantaposa, Siriporn Chirawatkul] Ethnographic Research on
Women's gynecological problems in North East Thailand: Lessons learned and recommendations
for improving health service delivery. International Network of clinical Epidemiology
annual Meeting, Bangkok. |
| April 1999 |
Presentation. Anthropology's
Contribution to the Study of Tobacco Consumption: What do we know, what do we need to find
out: Society of Applied Anthropology. annual meeting in Tucson, AZ. {lead paper in a two
session symposium I organized on Tobacco Consumption: National and International Research
Perspectives}. |
|
Presentation. Formative
Research on Women's Reproductive Health in N.E. Thailand. Society for Applied Anthropology
annual meeting, Tucson, AZ. |
| November 1999 |
Presentation. Harm Reduction as
a Central Concern for Medical Anthropology: American Anthropology Association annual
meeting. Chicago. |
| April 2000 |
Presentation. Contemporary
Adolescent Tobacco Consumption Patterns as a Cultural and a postmodern Phenomena. Brown
University Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies. Providence, Rhode Island. |
|
Invited paper: The Graduate
Training form in Medical Anthropology: An Overview and Lessons Learned Over the Past Ten
Years. Society for Applied Anthropology. San Francisco, California. |
| June 2000 |
Invited paper: Sociocultural
Factors Influencing Tobacco Use, Nicotine Dependency and Smoking Cessation: How Global and
North American Studies Can Inform Each Other. NIH Conference: Toward higher Levels of
Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health.
Bethesda, Maryland. |
| August 2000 |
Invited papers: Assessing
Nicotine Dependence among adolescents: The Devil is in the Details, and Measuring Nicotine
Dependence: Why is Cultural Context Important to Consider. Eleventh World Conference on
Tobacco and Health, Chicago, Illinois. |
| October 2000 |
Invited full day workshop on
Health Social Science issues in the study of adolescent tobacco consumption : Local and
Global Perspectives. INCLEN International Conference, Bangkok, Thailand |
| November 2000 |
Organizer of Session: Tobacco
Consumption and Nicotine Dependence: What's Culture got to do With It?
Presented two papers: 1) Mapping Trajectories of Tobacco Use and Nicotine
Dependence. 2) Exploring the meaning of Tobacco addiction among youth.
American Anthropology Association Annual Meeting; San Francisco. |