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Harvard Medical School<br />
Curriculum Vitae<br />
Date Prepared: May 5, 2009<br />
Name: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, <strong>Ph</strong>.D., <strong>MPH</strong><br />
<strong>Office</strong> <strong>Address</strong>: <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
641 Huntington Avenue<br />
Boston, MA 02115<br />
Work <strong>Ph</strong>one: 617-432-6038<br />
Work E-Mail: <strong>Arachu</strong>_<strong>Castro</strong>@hms.harvard.edu<br />
Work FAX: 617-432-6045<br />
Place <strong>of</strong> Birth: Logroño, Spain<br />
Education<br />
1988 M.A. (Licenciada) History/Social Anthropology University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
1988 R.D. (Técnica) Nutrition Polytechnic Institute, Barcelona, Spain<br />
1989 Diploma Biostatistics Autonomous University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
1992 M.A. (D.E.A.) Social Anthropology & Ethnology EHESS, Paris, France<br />
1996 <strong>Ph</strong>.D. (Docteur) Social Anthropology & Ethnology EHESS, Paris, France<br />
(Jean-Claude Galey)<br />
1997 <strong>Ph</strong>.D. (Doctora) Sociology University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
(María Jesús Buxó)<br />
1998 <strong>MPH</strong> International Health Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston<br />
Graduate Appointments<br />
1988-92 Research Fellow Anthropology University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
1991-96 Research Fellow Anthropology Maison des Sciences de l’Homme and<br />
Centre National de la Recherche<br />
Scientifique, Paris, France<br />
Postdoctoral Training<br />
1996-7 Research Associate Medical Anthropology Centre National de la Recherche<br />
Scientifique, France<br />
1997-9 Research International Health University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain, based at<br />
Fellow Abroad Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
1998-9 David E. Bell Reproductive Health and Harvard Center for Population and<br />
Research Fellow Demography Development Studies, Cambridge<br />
1999-0 Research Associate International Health Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston<br />
2000-1 Research Fellow Social Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston<br />
Faculty Academic Appointments<br />
2001-04 Instructor in Medical Anthropology Harvard Medical School, Boston<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
2004- Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine Harvard Medical School, Boston<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions<br />
1988 Chief Dietitian Institut Dexeus, Barcelona, Spain<br />
2004- Medical Anthropologist<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> Global Health Equity, Dept. Medicine Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston<br />
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Other Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Positions<br />
1992-93 Intern Public Health Unit, UNESCO, Paris, France<br />
1993-94 Consultant Food and Agriculture Organization <strong>of</strong> the United Nations<br />
1998-99 Consultant <strong>The</strong> Population Council – Mexico<br />
1999-01 Consultant World Health Organization / <strong>The</strong> Population Council – Mexico<br />
2000 Consultant UNICEF – Tanzania<br />
2001-02 Consultant Pan American Health Organization<br />
2002 Temporary Advisor Pan American Health Organization<br />
2002-03 Consultant Inter-American Dialogue<br />
2003 Temporary Advisor Pan American Health Organization<br />
2003-04 Consultant UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases<br />
2004 Temporary Advisor UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases<br />
2004 Temporary Advisor Pan American Health Organization<br />
2004 Temporary Advisor World Health Organization<br />
2005 Temporary Advisor World Health Organization<br />
2005 Temporary Advisor UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases<br />
2006 Temporary Advisor World Health Organization<br />
2006 Temporary Advisor UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases<br />
2006 Temporary Advisor Pan American Health Organization – Venezuela<br />
2007 Temporary Advisor Pan American Health Organization – Venezuela<br />
2007 Temporary Advisor UN Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases<br />
2007 Project Principal <strong>Office</strong>r Pan American Health Organization<br />
2009 Consultant UNICEF – Dominican Republic<br />
2009 Consultant UNICEF – Latin America and Caribbean Regional <strong>Office</strong><br />
2009 Consultant Hunter College, College University <strong>of</strong> New York<br />
2009 Consultant Pan American Health Organization<br />
Major Administrative Leadership Positions<br />
• Local<br />
2001- Academic Director Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine, HMS<br />
2001-08 Mexico Projects Director Partners In Health<br />
2001- Guatemala Projects Director Partners In Health<br />
2001 Interim Leader Haiti Team, Partners In Health<br />
2001-02 Seminar on the Cuban Health System <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine<br />
Seminar co-director Harvard Medical School<br />
2002-03 SM 700 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine<br />
Course co-director Harvard Medical School<br />
2002-06 SM 702 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine<br />
Course co-director Harvard Medical School<br />
2003 Co-Director Institute for Health and Social Justice,<br />
Partners In Health<br />
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2004-06 Director Institute for Health and Social Justice,<br />
Partners In Health<br />
2004-06 SM 700 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine<br />
Course director Harvard Medical School<br />
2005 24s AIDS in the Caribbean Freshman Seminars Program<br />
Course director Harvard College<br />
2006 AIDS in the Caribbean Puerto Rico Winter Institute<br />
Course director Harvard University and University <strong>of</strong> Puerto Rico<br />
2006- Global Health Delivery Seminar <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
Faculty director Harvard Medical School<br />
2006- Introduction to Social Medicine <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
Coordinator <strong>of</strong> International Health Projects Harvard Medical School<br />
2006- Cuba Study Group David Rockefeller Center for Latin American<br />
Seminar co-director Studies, Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences<br />
2007- Elective Clerkship in Medical Anthropology <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Global Health and Social Medicine<br />
Course director Harvard Medical School<br />
2008- Mexico Senior Advisor Partners In Health<br />
Committee Service<br />
• Local<br />
1999-04 Senior Common Room Currier House, Harvard University, Cambridge<br />
2001- Cuban Studies Program DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
2002- Co-chair<br />
2002- Sub-Committee for Cuban Visiting Scholars<br />
2001-05 Student Grants & Internships Committee DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
2001-02 Joan Gillespie Fellowship in Health and Partners In Health and <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social<br />
Social Justice Selection Committee Medicine, HMS<br />
2001- International Programs Committee Harvard Medical School<br />
2001-02 Latino Studies Task Force Harvard University<br />
2001-02 Fulbright Commission Pre-selection Committee Harvard Medical School<br />
2002- Visiting Scholars and Fellows Program DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
Committee<br />
2002- Oliver Wendell Holmes Society Harvard Medical School<br />
2002- Senior Fellow<br />
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2002- Policy Committee DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
2002-03 Interfaculty Initiative on Immigration and Harvard University<br />
Well-being<br />
2002 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Harvard Medical School<br />
Fellowship Program Selection Committee<br />
2002-06 Medical Education Committee <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine, HMS<br />
2003- Advisory Board Member Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University<br />
2007- Faculty Advisory Committee, DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
Brazil Studies Program<br />
2007- Committee on Social Policy in Latin America DRCLAS, Harvard University<br />
2007- Co-chair<br />
2007- Standing Committee on Degrees in Studies <strong>of</strong> Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, Harvard University<br />
Women, Gender, and Sexuality<br />
2007- Affiliate<br />
2009- Faculty Associate Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,<br />
Harvard University<br />
• National<br />
2003 Advisory Group Member AIDS and Social Transformations Program,<br />
Social Science Research Council<br />
2008 Advisor Southeastern National Tuberculosis Center<br />
(SNTC) and the University <strong>of</strong> Alabama at<br />
Birmingham’s Lung Health Center<br />
• International<br />
1993 Organizer FAO/WHO/UNICEF Interagency Workshop<br />
on Food and Nutrition Surveillance and <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Plan <strong>of</strong> Action <strong>of</strong> the International<br />
Conference on Nutrition in the Lusophone<br />
African countries. Food and Agriculture<br />
Organization <strong>of</strong> the United Nations, Food<br />
Policy and Nutrition Division, Nutrition<br />
Planning, Assessment and Evaluation Service.<br />
2000-02 Global Plan to Stop TB Writing Committee World Health Organization<br />
2001-02 International Coordination Committee Regional Forum 2002: <strong>The</strong> Challenges <strong>of</strong><br />
the HIV/AIDS Pandemic for the Reform and<br />
Strengthening <strong>of</strong> Health Systems and Services<br />
in Latin America and the Caribbean, Pan<br />
American Health Organization<br />
2003- Advisor on Social and Behavioral Research UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special<br />
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and Interventions, Dengue Reference Group Program for Research and Training in Tropical<br />
Diseases (TDR), Intervention, Development and<br />
Implementation Research (IDE)<br />
2004-08 Social, Economic and Behavior (SEB) UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special<br />
Steering Committee Member Program for Research & Training in Tropical<br />
Diseases (TDR), Strategic and Discovery<br />
Research (SDR)<br />
2004 Operational Research for HIV Treatment Scale-up World Health Organization<br />
in Resource-Limited Settings Working Group<br />
Member<br />
2004-07 Public Health Watch International Advisory Open Society Institute<br />
Committee Member<br />
2005- Product Development Team on Development <strong>of</strong> World Health Organization, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Appropriate Research Strategies for Scale Up <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS and UNICEF/UNDP/World<br />
Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy in Resource-Constrained Bank/WHO Special Program for Research &<br />
Settings Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR),<br />
Implementation Research and Methods (IMR)<br />
2005 Scientific Working Group on Tuberculosis UNICEF/UNDP/WORLDBANK/WHO<br />
Special Programme for Research and Training in<br />
Tropical Diseases (TDR)<br />
2006 Working Group on Adherence, Generic Tools for World Health Organization<br />
Operational Research on Scaling-up HIV/AIDS<br />
Treatment and Prevention<br />
2006 Commission Barrio Adentro Pan American Health Organization,<br />
Venezuela<br />
2006-07 Task Force on Women, Children, and the Medicus Mundi Catalunya and Spanish<br />
HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Africa International Cooperation Agency (AECI)<br />
2007- Social Exclusion Knowledge Network WHO Commission on Social Determinants <strong>of</strong><br />
Latin American regional hub network member <strong>of</strong> Health<br />
2007- Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for the UNICEF/UNAIDS/Pan American Health<br />
Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Testing and Organization (PAHO)/HMS<br />
Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis<br />
2007- Project Director<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Societies<br />
1988- Member American Anthropological Association<br />
1998-02 Chair, Critical Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Health Caucus, Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
2002-06 Chair, Global Health and Emerging Disease, Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
2002 Reviewer, Rudolph Virchow Award Selection Committee, Student Competition<br />
2003-06 Secretary-Treasurer, Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
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2004-06 Advisory Board Member, H-MedAnthro, Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
2005-07 Co-organizer, Health and Human Rights Task Group<br />
1988-98 Member European Association <strong>of</strong> Social Anthropologists<br />
1997-00 Member European Academy <strong>of</strong> Nutritional Sciences<br />
2001- Member Latin American Studies Association<br />
2004-06 Council Board Member, Health, Science and Society Section<br />
2001- Member American Public Health Association<br />
2003- Member Latin American Forum for Social Sciences and<br />
Health<br />
2008- Member International AIDS Society<br />
Grant Review Activities<br />
1998- Social Science Projects Reviewer National Agency for Scientific and<br />
Technologic Development, Ministry <strong>of</strong><br />
Culture and Education <strong>of</strong> Argentina<br />
2002, 03 Program on Global Security & Sustainability, MacArthur Foundation<br />
Research and Writing Competition Reviewer<br />
2002 Public Health Reviewer Canadian Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health Research<br />
2002 International Expert Canadian International Development<br />
Agency<br />
2003 External Reviewer WellBeing and the Royal College <strong>of</strong><br />
Obstetricians and Gynecologists <strong>of</strong> the UK<br />
2003 Reviewer Academy Health (formerly Academy for<br />
Health Services Research and Health Policy)<br />
2006 Reviewer, Operations Research on AIDS Care and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation<br />
Treatment in Africa (ORACTA) Program<br />
2007-08 Reviewer National Science Foundation<br />
Editorial Activities<br />
• Ad hoc Reviewer<br />
o University <strong>of</strong> California Press<br />
o American Journal <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
o Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry<br />
o International Journal <strong>of</strong> Tuberculosis and Lung Disease<br />
o British Medical Journal<br />
o Medical Anthropology Quarterly<br />
o Palgrave Macmillan Press<br />
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o American Anthropologist<br />
o BMC International Health and Human Rights<br />
o PLoS Medicine<br />
o AIDS Care<br />
o Lancet<br />
o Global Public Health<br />
o Pan American Journal <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
o Medical Anthropology<br />
o Social Science & Medicine<br />
o PLoS ONE<br />
o Health & Human Rights<br />
• Other Editorial Roles<br />
1986-88 Founding Editor Antropologies<br />
1999 Ad Hoc Editorial Writer British Medical Journal<br />
2002- Editorial Board Member Humanitas Humanidades Médicas<br />
2007- Editorial Board member PLoS ONE<br />
2007- Editorial Advisory Board member <strong>The</strong> Open Health Services & Policy Journal<br />
2007- Editorial Board member PLoS Medicine<br />
Honors and Prizes<br />
1988 Award <strong>of</strong> Final Studies in Dietetics and Nutrition. Polytechnic Institute <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain.<br />
Name <strong>of</strong> study: “An Evaluation <strong>of</strong> the Dietetics Unit <strong>of</strong> a First Level Hospital.”<br />
1991 Premio Iber de Investigación. Spain’s national award on Food and Coronary Diseases. Name <strong>of</strong> the study:<br />
“Anthropology and Fatty Acids.” Awarded by the Instituto Valenciano Pro-Corazón.<br />
1998 David E. Bell Research Fellowship, MacArthur Program on Population and Development, Harvard Center<br />
for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2001 Conmemorative Medal for the Centenary <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Pedro Kourí. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro<br />
Kourí. Havana, Cuba.<br />
2003 Nominee, Klaus Peter International Teaching Award, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2005 Nominee, Klaus Peter International Teaching Award, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2005 Nominee, Harvard Medical School Prize for Excellence in Teaching (Years 1 & 2), Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2005 Dean’s Letter, Excellence in Teaching (Freshman seminar), Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, Cambridge,<br />
Massachusetts<br />
2005 Rudolf Virchow Award, Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Prize, Critical Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Health Caucus, Society for Medical<br />
Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. <strong>The</strong> award honors an article written in the spirit <strong>of</strong><br />
Rudolf Virchow that is deemed by the judges to best reflect, extend or advance critical perspectives in<br />
medical anthropology. To the paper, co-authored with Paul Farmer: “Pearls <strong>of</strong> the Antilles? Public Health<br />
in Haiti and Cuba,” in <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Merrill Singer (eds.), Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical<br />
Anthropological Examination. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004, pp. 3-28.<br />
2008 Nominee, Harvard Medical School 2007-2008 Excellence in Mentoring Award, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
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Report <strong>of</strong> Funded and Unfunded Projects<br />
Funding Information<br />
• Past<br />
1988-92 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($40,000)<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Spain<br />
Four-year Doctoral Scholarship and Research Grant<br />
1989 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($4,000)<br />
Interdepartmental Commission <strong>of</strong> Research and New Technologies (CIRIT), Government <strong>of</strong> Catalunya, Spain<br />
A ten-week research and travel fellowship to work on the project: “A Study on the variables intervening in the<br />
establishment <strong>of</strong> food choices among Mexican-Americans.” <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nutritional Sciences, College <strong>of</strong> Natural<br />
Resources, University <strong>of</strong> California at Berkeley, CA<br />
1990 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($2,000)<br />
Interdepartmental Commission <strong>of</strong> Research and New Technologies (CIRIT), Government <strong>of</strong> Catalunya, Spain<br />
A one-month travel and research fellowship to work on the project: “An evaluation <strong>of</strong> the nutritional status and<br />
food habits <strong>of</strong> farmworker families in Tulare County, California.” <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nutritional Sciences, College <strong>of</strong><br />
Natural Resources, University <strong>of</strong> California at Berkeley, CA<br />
1990 ($1,000)<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
Travel award to attend the 89 th Annual Conference <strong>of</strong> the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA<br />
1990 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($10,000)<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Health, Consumption, and Welfare. Government <strong>of</strong> La Rioja, Spain<br />
A six-month research grant: “Project to promote healthy food habits in La Rioja, Spain”<br />
1990 ($5,000)<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Spain<br />
An eleven-week travel and research fellowship to work as research fellow at the University <strong>of</strong> Paris X at Nanterre<br />
(France), <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Ethnology and Comparative Sociology<br />
1991 ($1,500)<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Spain<br />
A three-week travel and research fellowship to work as research fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme<br />
(France), Equipe d’Anthropologie Alimentaire des Populations Traditionnelles<br />
1991 ($1,000)<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Education, Government <strong>of</strong> Catalunya, Spain<br />
Travel award to participate at the 90 th Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the American Anthropological Association in Chicago, IL<br />
1992 ($1,000)<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
Travel award to participate at the 11 th International Congress <strong>of</strong> Dietetics in Jerusalem, Israel<br />
1992 ($5,000)<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Spain<br />
A ten-week travel and research fellowship to work as research fellow at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme<br />
(France), Equipe d’Anthropologie Alimentaire des Populations Traditionnelles<br />
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1994<br />
European Nutrition Leadership Program, European Commission’s Health and Safety Directorate<br />
A one-week fellowship to participate at the first seminar <strong>of</strong> the program<br />
1996 ($10,000)<br />
Prix de Projet de Recherche Alimentation et Santé. French national award on Food and Health<br />
Name <strong>of</strong> the study: “Sociocultural Construction <strong>of</strong> Breastfeeding and Weaning Practices: A Comparative Analysis<br />
<strong>of</strong> Motherhood in Contemporary French Women.”<br />
1997-99 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($50,000)<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Education, Spain<br />
Two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship and Research Grant to conduct research at Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
1997-8<br />
Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
Tuition scholarship, Master’s <strong>of</strong> Public Health program<br />
1998-9<br />
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
David Bell Research Fellowship, MacArthur Program on Population<br />
1999<br />
Center for Continuing Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Education, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
Tuition scholarship for CME course: Ethical Issues in International Health Research<br />
1999-2000 Co-PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong><br />
WHO/HPR, Geneva, Switzerland<br />
PI: Silvina Ramos<br />
Co-PIs: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Mariana Romero, Sandra Sáenz, Georgina Rojas, Maria Duarte Osis<br />
Research grant for project: Analysis <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ph</strong>ysician’s Acceptance <strong>of</strong> a Second Opinion Protocol for Cesarean Indications<br />
Aimed at Reducing the Proportion <strong>of</strong> Cesarean in Latin American Public Hospitals and Women’s Satisfaction with the<br />
Intervention<br />
2000-2005 Co-investigator<br />
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation<br />
PI: Jim Y. Kim, Paul Farmer.<br />
Partners Against Resistant TB: A Network for Equity and Resource Strengthening. <strong>The</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> this project<br />
is to design and implement a model program for the treatment and control <strong>of</strong> drug-resistant tuberculosis in<br />
Peru and to develop evidence-based policy guidelines for similar settings. Grant number 04-2103580N.<br />
2001 PIs: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Jim Y. Kim and Paul Farmer ($20,000)<br />
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
Conference grant to organize the Conference on the Impact <strong>of</strong> Health Systems Reform in the Control <strong>of</strong> Infectious<br />
Disease in Latin America.<br />
2001 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($5,000)<br />
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
Faculty Grant to prepare the paper Origins, Evolution and Current Reform <strong>of</strong> the Cuban Health Care System.<br />
2001<br />
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
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Faculty travel award to teach at the 7 th International Course on Dengue, Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí,<br />
Havana, Cuba.<br />
2001-2002 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($8,000)<br />
Pan American Health Organization<br />
Contract Number SC-26266 (EP)<br />
<strong>The</strong> Challenge <strong>of</strong> the HIV-AIDS Pandemic for the Reform and Strengthening <strong>of</strong> Health Systems and Services in Latin<br />
America and Caribbean.<br />
Contract to draft the concept paper <strong>of</strong> a PAHO/USAID international conference.<br />
2002<br />
Harvard Medical School, Cannon Society<br />
Paul Dudley White Travel Award to participate at the International Health Medical Education Consortium Annual<br />
Meeting in Havana, Cuba<br />
2003-2004 PIs: John Coatsworth, Xavier de Souza Briggs, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Paul Farmer ($40,000)<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Grant number 1035-0359<br />
Scholarly Collaboration between Harvard University and Cuba in the Areas <strong>of</strong> Public Management Education and<br />
Applied Social and Health Policy Research.<br />
2003 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($10,000)<br />
Pan American Health Organization<br />
Letter <strong>of</strong> Agreement Number ICP-UAH-800/RB/02-03<br />
Formulation <strong>of</strong> a Health Services Research Proposal for the Delivery <strong>of</strong> a Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Program in<br />
Haiti, and completion <strong>of</strong> the manuscript Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
2003 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($8,000)<br />
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
Faculty Grant for the research project: AIDS in the Caribbean: <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> Effective <strong>The</strong>rapy on Stigma<br />
2003 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($10,000)<br />
UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR)<br />
Contract ID: OD/AP-03-00235<br />
Grant to prepare the manuscript Social Factors Contributing to Dengue Transmission for the TDR series on Social,<br />
Economic, and Behavioral Research.<br />
2004<br />
International AIDS Society<br />
Scholarship for the 15 th International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, July 2004.<br />
2004 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($10,000)<br />
Harvard Medical School, Center <strong>of</strong> Excellence in Minority Health and Health Disparities (COE) and the Minority<br />
Faculty Development Program (MFDP), <strong>Office</strong> for Diversity and Community Partnership<br />
Bridge Award to conduct the study “AIDS in the Caribbean: <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> Effective <strong>The</strong>rapy on Quality <strong>of</strong> Life.”<br />
2005-08 PIs: Jorge Domínguez, Xavier de Souza Briggs, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($40,000)<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Grant number 1055-0735<br />
Scholarly Collaboration Between Harvard University and Cuba in Applied Economic, Social and Health Policy<br />
Research.<br />
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2005-07 Co-Investigator<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health – National Institute <strong>of</strong> Mental Health<br />
Grant number: 1 R21 MH076447-01.<br />
PI: Joia Mukherjee.<br />
Psychosocial Intervention in HIV-Affected Children in Haiti<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> this project is to assess the mental health status <strong>of</strong> children affected by HIV in Haiti and to pilot an<br />
intervention to support these children and prevent negative psychosocial outcomes.<br />
2005-06 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($35,000)<br />
William F. Milton Fund Award, Harvard University<br />
Grant number: 624473<br />
Assessing and Improving the Quality <strong>of</strong> Life <strong>of</strong> Cuban AIDS Patients<br />
<strong>The</strong> project aims at analyzing the social and clinical impact <strong>of</strong> the provision <strong>of</strong> highly active antiretroviral therapy<br />
(HAART) to AIDS patients in Cuba.<br />
2006-08 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($240,000)<br />
Atlantic <strong>Ph</strong>ilanthropies<br />
Grant number: 14217<br />
Assessing and Improving the Quality <strong>of</strong> Life <strong>of</strong> Cuban AIDS Patients<br />
This proposal aims at analyzing the social and clinical impact <strong>of</strong> the provision <strong>of</strong> highly active antiretroviral therapy<br />
(HAART) to AIDS patients in Cuba.<br />
2006-07 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($20,000)<br />
Wilbur Marvin Fund, Faculty Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
<strong>The</strong> Challenge <strong>of</strong> Adherence to Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy in Puerto Rico: Inequality and Social Relations in Urban<br />
San Juan.<br />
2007-08 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($10,000)<br />
Lemann Fund, Faculty Grant, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University<br />
Prenatal Testing for HIV and Other STIs: A Situation Analysis in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
2007-08 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($13,330)<br />
Research Enabling Grant, <strong>Office</strong> <strong>of</strong> Faculty Affairs, Harvard University<br />
Prenatal Testing for HIV, Syphilis, and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections: An Exploratory Study aimed at<br />
Understanding Barriers to Uptake Among Pregnant Women in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
2007 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($36,758)<br />
Pan American Health Organization<br />
Grant number SC-07-02935<br />
Prenatal Testing for HIV, Syphilis, and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections: An Exploratory Study aimed at<br />
Understanding Barriers to Uptake Among Pregnant Women in Latin America and the Caribbean<br />
<strong>The</strong> study aims at identifying barriers to testing for HIV, syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)<br />
during pregnancy in Colombia.<br />
2008 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($3,690)<br />
Coolidge First-step Funds for Harvard-Brazil Faculty Engagement, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American<br />
Studies<br />
Evaluation <strong>of</strong> Vertical Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV in the State <strong>of</strong> São Paulo, Brazil<br />
Travel award to São Paulo, Brazil<br />
2008 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($40,000)<br />
UNAIDS, Regional Support Team for Latin America<br />
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Situation analysis and socio-economic, cultural, political and health system barriers in access to prenatal care and<br />
screening <strong>of</strong> HIV and syphilis during pregnancy in Peru.<br />
<strong>The</strong> project aims at identifying barriers to testing for HIV, syphilis, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)<br />
during pregnancy in Peru. In collaboration with the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> Peru, UNICEF, and Socios En Salud.<br />
• Current<br />
2007-09 Co-investigator<br />
PI: Luiza Matida<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> Brazil<br />
Evaluation <strong>of</strong> Vertical Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV in the State <strong>of</strong> São Paulo, Brazil<br />
Epidemiological study <strong>of</strong> pregnant women diagnosed with HIV and their <strong>of</strong>fspring born in 2006 in the state <strong>of</strong> São<br />
Paulo, aimed at evaluating the magnitude <strong>of</strong> mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) <strong>of</strong> HIV and at identifying<br />
failures in the prevention <strong>of</strong> MTCT.<br />
2007-09 PIs: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Jorge Domínguez ($50,000)<br />
Ford Foundation<br />
Grant number 1085-0193<br />
Scholarly Collaboration between Harvard University and Cuba in Health Policy Research<br />
This project aims at analyzing the social and clinical impact <strong>of</strong> the provision <strong>of</strong> antiretroviral therapy to AIDS<br />
patients in Cuba and at training Cuban researchers in qualitative research.<br />
2008-10 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($41,000)<br />
Global Infectious Disease Program, Harvard Initiative for Global Health, Harvard University <strong>Office</strong> <strong>of</strong> the<br />
President and Provost<br />
<strong>The</strong> Latin America and Caribbean Prenatal Testing Initiative for HIV and Syphilis<br />
Aimed at identifying barriers to testing for HIV, syphilis, and other STIs during pregnancy in Brazil, Colombia,<br />
Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, to design a multi-country intervention, and to scale<br />
up screening and diagnostic testing during pregnancy in all these countries.<br />
2009 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong><br />
UNICEF, Regional <strong>Office</strong> for Latin America and the Caribbean<br />
Contract number: SSA/COLA/2009/00000079-0.<br />
Contract to prepare the commissioned chapter “Prevention <strong>of</strong> Mother-to-Child Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis<br />
in Latin America and the Caribbean,” for the PAHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS report Challenges posed by the HIV<br />
epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean 2009.<br />
2009 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong><br />
Pan American Health Organization<br />
Contract number: CSA-09-105.<br />
Contract to act as editor <strong>of</strong> the PAHO/UNICEF/UNAIDS report Challenges posed by the HIV epidemic in Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean 2009.<br />
2009-10 PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> ($60,000)<br />
UNAIDS, Regional Support Team for Latin America<br />
<strong>The</strong> Latin America and Caribbean Initiative for the Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment <strong>of</strong><br />
HIV and Syphilis (ILAP)<br />
Study aimed at directing and coordinating the operational research <strong>of</strong> ILAP in Brazil, Colombia, Dominican<br />
Republic, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay. Contract pending.<br />
2009-14 Co-investigator<br />
1 R01 MH083550-01A2 (scored on 3/9/09; 12.6 percentile)<br />
PI: Sonya Shin<br />
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Community-based accompaniment with supervised antiretrovirals in Lima, Peru<br />
Randomized trial <strong>of</strong> a community-based DOT for HAART intervention for HIV+ persons living in poverty<br />
in Peru compared to control communities; assessment <strong>of</strong> the impact <strong>of</strong> the community-based intervention on viral<br />
load and social capital.<br />
2009-13 Local PI<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health—National Institute <strong>of</strong> Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
Grant tracking number: R01 GRANT00558234 (submitted on 12/14/07).<br />
PI: Luiza Matida.<br />
Research partnership on prenatal and HIV/syphilis care in Latin America<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> this project is to assess the impact on testing and treatment coverage for HIV and syphilis during<br />
pregnancy through interrupted time series and pre-post analyses in Brazil and the Dominican Republic.<br />
2009-2012 PIs: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Sonya Shin<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health—National Institute <strong>of</strong> Mental Health<br />
1R34MH087224-01 (submitted on 01/07/09; scored on 3/24/09; under resubmission).<br />
Measurement <strong>of</strong> the Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal and HIV/Syphilis Care in Latin America<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> this project is to conduct innovative services research to analyze the process <strong>of</strong> system organization<br />
efforts to improve access to and delivery <strong>of</strong> health services to treat pregnant women diagnosed with HIV or syphilis<br />
and prevent vertical transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV and syphilis in Brazil and the Dominican Republic.<br />
2009-2011 PIs: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Sonya Shin<br />
National Institutes <strong>of</strong> Health—Fogarty International Center<br />
1 RC1 HD063816-01 (submitted on 04/20/09)<br />
Stigma and Barriers to Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal and HIV/STD Healthcare in Latin America<br />
<strong>The</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> this project is to identify health system characteristics that facilitate or impede effective implementation<br />
<strong>of</strong> integrated prenatal and HIV/STI management and to assess the impact <strong>of</strong> the implemented strategies in Brazil,<br />
Colombia, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay.<br />
Current Unfunded Projects<br />
2009- PI: <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> Perinatal and Neonatal Clinical History Form Project<br />
Aimed at identifying problems with data collection and reporting in Colombia, Dominican Republic, and Peru,<br />
related to the use <strong>of</strong> the Perinatal Clinical History form, developed by the Latin American Center <strong>of</strong> Perinatology,<br />
and at testing the feasibility <strong>of</strong> adding an HIV module for pregnant women testing positive for HIV. I am<br />
supervising three medical students and two physicians.<br />
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Report <strong>of</strong> Local Teaching and Training<br />
Teaching <strong>of</strong> Students in Courses<br />
• Local teaching prior to Harvard appointment<br />
1988-89 Cultural Anthropology<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
Weekly, two-semester, theoretical and practical training in nutritional anthropology and supervision <strong>of</strong><br />
more than 100 undergraduate students conducting household interviews in Barcelona.<br />
• Local teaching at Harvard<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
2000-06 SM 700 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor, syllabus preparation, grading <strong>of</strong> student’s papers.<br />
45 medical students, 5 hours/week, 5 hours prep<br />
2000-06 SM 702 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor, syllabus preparation, grading <strong>of</strong> student’s papers.<br />
20-30 medical students and 20-30 public health students, 5 hours/week, 5 hours prep<br />
2001-02 Seminar on the Cuban Health System<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor, syllabus preparation, independent tutorials<br />
10 hours/month, 5 hours prep<br />
2004-05 CN 700 <strong>Ph</strong>ysician in Community<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Mentor<br />
2-3 medical students, 2 hours/week<br />
2004-05 SM 715 Seminar on Global Health Equity<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor<br />
15 medical students<br />
2005 SM 720 Gender, Sexuality and the Politics <strong>of</strong> Health<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor (one session)<br />
15 medical students<br />
2006- Global Health Delivery Seminar<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor<br />
2006- Introduction to Social Medicine<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor<br />
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2007- Elective Clerkship in Medical Anthropology<br />
Harvard Medical School<br />
Instructor<br />
4 medical students<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences<br />
2005 24s AIDS in the Caribbean (Freshman Seminar)<br />
Harvard College<br />
Instructor<br />
14 undergraduate students<br />
2006 AIDS in the Caribbean<br />
Harvard University and University <strong>of</strong> Puerto Rico<br />
Instructor<br />
20 graduate students from Harvard University and University <strong>of</strong> Puerto Rico, 20 hours<br />
2006- Cuba Study Group<br />
Faculty <strong>of</strong> Arts and Sciences, Harvard University<br />
Graduate seminar for Harvard students writing a thesis on Cuba.<br />
10 graduate students<br />
Undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students, years in lab and status<br />
1998-99 Carlos J. Valerio <strong>MPH</strong> student at National School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Spain<br />
Master’s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor on AIDS in Spanish prisons<br />
2000-01 Chen, Ellen HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Cuba<br />
2000-01 Saatkamp, Barbara HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Cuba<br />
2000-05 Abbatangelo, Jodie HSPH doctoral student<br />
Doctoral committee member<br />
2000-01 Steenson, Kristina HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> summer research project in Brazil<br />
2000-01 Somoano, Brian HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> summer research project on AIDS in Cuba<br />
2000-01 Locke, Rebecca HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> summer research project in Peru<br />
2000-01 Bórquez, Eduardo HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> summer research project in Ecuador<br />
2000-01 Vázquez, Jesús HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> summer research project in Peru<br />
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2000-05 Arbour, Mary Catherine HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research projects in Peru and elsewhere; co-presentation <strong>of</strong> poster at 2002 International<br />
AIDS Conference.<br />
2001 Besú, Suzi Harvard College student<br />
Honor’s thesis in health policy grader and examiner<br />
2001-03 Johnston, James Queen U medical student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on dengue transmission and social inequality in Latin America; coauthored<br />
chapter in leading anthropological book series.<br />
2001- Herce, Michael Yale U medical student/HSPH <strong>MPH</strong> student/BWH resident<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research projects in Mexico; co-presenter in 2005 American Public Health Association<br />
annual meeting; co-authored manuscript in press in Journal <strong>of</strong> Community Health and second<br />
manuscript currently in progress.<br />
2001-02 Chapman, Jacob UNC medical student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project in Mexico<br />
2001-03 Abadía, César Ernesto HSDM doctoral student<br />
Doctoral thesis advisor and examiner; co-authored paper in Social Sciences & Medicine.<br />
2001-02 Farmer, Carrie Harvard FAS doctoral student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> health policy research project in Latin America<br />
2001-02 Thomas, Joel Harvard College student<br />
Honor’s thesis advisor on health policy in Cuba<br />
2002-04 Simmons, David, <strong>Ph</strong>.D. Michigan S U/National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow<br />
Doctoral defense evaluator; supervision <strong>of</strong> postdoctoral research on health care in the Dominican<br />
Republic<br />
2003 Olivares-Llenas, Eduard Doctoral student at University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain<br />
Doctoral committee examiner (invited)<br />
2003-08 Chodos, Anna HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project in Mexico<br />
2003-04 Ortiz, Fausto HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project in Mexico<br />
2003-08 Herring, Andrew HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Cuba<br />
2003-05 Mathai, Susan Harvard College student<br />
Honor’s thesis advisor on abortion in Cuba and supervision <strong>of</strong> fieldwork in Cuba<br />
2004-05 Louis, Coeurlida Yale U medical student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Haiti; co-authored paper in AIDS Care.<br />
2004-06 Aparicio, Sylvia HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on abdominal TB in Zambia<br />
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2004- Aragonés, Carlos Doctoral student at Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine, Havana, Cuba<br />
Doctoral thesis advisor; on epidemiology <strong>of</strong> AIDS in Cuba; co-authored presentations at 2006 and 2008<br />
International AIDS Conference; co-authored manuscript currently in progress.<br />
2004- Westerhaus, Michael HMS/FAS student/BWH medical resident<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Uganda; co-authored four publications on access to<br />
antiretroviral medications and health policy.<br />
2004- Burroughs, Melissa HMS student/UCSF medical resident<br />
MD <strong>The</strong>sis advisor; supervision <strong>of</strong> research projects on AIDS and racism in Cuba and Puerto Rico;<br />
co-authored manuscript currently in progress.<br />
2004-05 Snell, Jamey HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Uganda.<br />
2004-05 Moran, Sarah Harvard College student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in South Africa.<br />
2005 Bor, Jacob Harvard College student<br />
Honor’s thesis in social studies grader and examiner<br />
2005-07 Ivers, Louise, MD Brigham and Women’s Hospital fellow<br />
Advisor <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS-related stigma in Haiti<br />
2006-07 Kerry, MD, Vanessa HMS student<br />
MD Honor’s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor on access to antiretroviral medications and health policy.<br />
2005-06 Mann, Aaron HMS student<br />
Preceptor in medical Spanish<br />
2006-07 Quintanar, Alberto Harvard GSAS student<br />
Master’s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor on AIDS in Mexico<br />
2006-08 Bae, Jason Harvard College/Yale Medical School student<br />
Advisor to research project on AIDS in Botswana<br />
2006- Johnston, Ari HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on malaria and access to health care in Mali<br />
2006-08 Suri, Arjun Harvard College student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> reseach project on access to health care in Peru<br />
2006-08 Chen, Connie Harvard College student<br />
Supervison <strong>of</strong> research projects on health policy.<br />
2006-07 Miller, Christopher HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on prenatal care in Latin America<br />
2006-07 Yamin, Cyrus HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Dominican Republic; co-authored report submitted to the<br />
Dominican Presidential Council on AIDS and PAHO<br />
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2007 Wright, Joseph HMS student<br />
MD <strong>The</strong>sis examiner, on AIDS in the United States<br />
2007- Sandesara, Utpal Harvard College student , U Penn MD-<strong>Ph</strong>.D. incoming student<br />
Honor´s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor; supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Peru; co-authored manuscript<br />
currently in progress.<br />
2007-08 Pedraza, <strong>Ph</strong>.D., Laura Harvard Law School student<br />
Advisor on health policy in Latin America<br />
2007-08 Donner, Abbigail Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health student<br />
Master’s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor on child and reproductive health in Ghana<br />
2007-08 Sutcliffe, Shelby Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health student<br />
Master’s <strong>The</strong>sis advisor on AIDS in South Africa<br />
2007-08 Obimba, Chinyere HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Brazil<br />
2008- Jeffress, Katie Harvard Extension School student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on testing for HIV and syphilis<br />
2008- Mc<strong>Ph</strong>illips, Kristin Albany Medical School student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Peru<br />
2008- Connolly, Maureen University <strong>of</strong> Michigan Medical School student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in the Dominican Republic<br />
2008- Patiño, Andrés HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Colombia<br />
2008- Dubal, Sam HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on AIDS in Uganda<br />
2009 Seidner, Dominika HMS student<br />
MD <strong>The</strong>sis examiner<br />
2009 Feldstein, Michael HMS student<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on the socio-medical impact <strong>of</strong> landmines<br />
2009- Kravitz, Amy, MD, MSc University <strong>of</strong> Miami medical resident<br />
Advisor on research project on AIDS in Latin America<br />
2009- Levine, Zach Columbia College, NY<br />
Supervision <strong>of</strong> research project on malaria in pregnancy<br />
Local Invited Presentations<br />
1988 From Colonial Dependence to Food Dependence in West Africa. Lecture, “Sociology” course.<br />
Program in Dietetics, Escuela Bonanova, Barcelona (Spain).<br />
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1988 Human Diet Before Fire. Lecture, “Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Food” course, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Anthropology,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1989 Food Behavior <strong>of</strong> Mexican-Americans in the United States. Lecture, “Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Food” course,<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Anthropology, University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1990 Nutrition Education, Nutritional Anthropology and Community Food Supply. Lecture, Master <strong>of</strong> Food and<br />
Nutritional Sciences, School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ph</strong>armacy, University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1990 Epidemiology and Nutritional Anthropology. Lecture, 2nd Seminar on Community Nutrition, Public Health<br />
Division, and Health Studies Institute IES, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain).<br />
1994 Sociocultural approach to eating behavior. INSERM (Institut national de la santé et de la recherche<br />
médicale), Research unit: U 290, directed by Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Desjeux, Paris (France).<br />
1995 Cultural factors <strong>of</strong> nutrition throughout the life cycle. A three-hour lecture in the seminar “Symbolism and<br />
determinants <strong>of</strong> food behavior”. Institut Supérieur de l’Alimentation, Paris (France).<br />
1995 Food taboos. A three-hour lecture in the seminar “Symbolism and determinants <strong>of</strong> food behavior”. Institut<br />
Supérieur de l’Alimentation, Paris (France).<br />
1996 <strong>The</strong> evolution <strong>of</strong> fat intake in Northern Spain. A two-hour lecture in the seminar “Desire and pleasure”,<br />
directed by Jean-Louis Flandrin. Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France).<br />
1997 Sociocultural constructions <strong>of</strong> breastfeeding and weaning. A two-hour lecture in the seminar “Comparative<br />
analyses <strong>of</strong> techniques and food practices”, co-directed by R. Bonnain, F. Sabban, and F. Sigaut. Ecole des<br />
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (France).<br />
1997 Food practices: A historical perspective. A two-hour lecture addressed to midwifery students. Ecole de<br />
Sages-Femmes, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris (France).<br />
1997 Sociological and symbolical approach to food practices: Food taboos or dietary recommendations? A twohour<br />
lecture addressed to midwifery students. Ecole de Sages-Femmes, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris<br />
(France).<br />
1998 <strong>The</strong> Epidemic <strong>of</strong> Cesarean Sections in Mexico. A two-hour seminar. Harvard Center for Population and<br />
Development Studies, Cambridge, MA.<br />
1999 Political Economy <strong>of</strong> Breastfeeding. Discussant in the class Political Economy <strong>of</strong> International Health<br />
Policies, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston, MA.<br />
1999 Female Sterilization in Latin America. A two-hour lecture in the Master <strong>of</strong> Public Health Program,<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> International Health, School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston University, MA.<br />
1999 Chair and organizer, “Panel on Sterilization <strong>of</strong> Women and Reproductive Rights”, Harvard Center for<br />
Population and Development Studies (June 1999), Cambridge, MA.<br />
2000 Female Sterilization in Latin America. Discussant in the class Women, Health, and Development, Harvard<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston, MA.<br />
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2000 Chair and organizer: “Increasing Health Coverage in Very Different Settings: Chile and Haiti”. Program in<br />
Infectious Disease and Social Change, Dept. Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School (June 2000),<br />
Boston, MA<br />
2000 Organizer: “Community-based responses to emerging infectious disease”, Partners In Health, Program in<br />
Infectious Disease and Social Change (Harvard Medical School), and David Rockefeller Center for Latin<br />
American Studies. Harvard Medical School (October 2000), Boston, MA.<br />
2001 Female Sterilization in Latin America. Guest Discussion Leader in the class Women, Health, and<br />
Development, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston, MA.<br />
2001 Health Priorities and Health Research in Latin America: <strong>The</strong> Work <strong>of</strong> Partners In Health. Advisory Board<br />
Meeting, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2001 Medicine and Public Health. Panelist. Dream Job Conference. Institute <strong>of</strong> Politics, Kennedy School <strong>of</strong><br />
Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.<br />
2002 Increasing Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs, including Highly Active Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy. A two-hour<br />
lecture taught with Paul Farmer in the Master <strong>of</strong> Public Health Program, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Population and<br />
International Health, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston, MA<br />
2002 Medicine and Public Health. Panelist. Dream Job Conference. Institute <strong>of</strong> Politics, Kennedy School <strong>of</strong><br />
Government, Harvard University. Cambridge, MA.<br />
2001 Living with Infectious Disease: Comparative Health Policy and Practices in the Caribbean, HIV and<br />
Infectious Disease in Haiti and Cuba. Tertulia Seminar. David Rockefeller Center for Latin American<br />
Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2002 Prevention and Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS in Cuba. Seminar on Communist and Post-communist Countries.<br />
Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2003 <strong>The</strong> Cuban Health System and its Control <strong>of</strong> Infectious Disease. Kennedy School <strong>of</strong> Government, Harvard<br />
University. Cambridge, MA.<br />
2004 Social and Political Factors in Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis, taught with Paul Farmer. Graduate course<br />
on Tuberculosis directed by Edward Nardell. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Environmental Health, Harvard School <strong>of</strong><br />
Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 Anthropology and Activism. Graduate course on Anthropology and Activism directed by Leda Leitao<br />
Martins. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 AIDS in Cuba: From the Sanatorium to Comprehensive Care. Cuba Seminar Series, David Rockefeller<br />
Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 International Health, presented with Paul Farmer. Health in Practice Speaker Series, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Population and International Health, Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 Discussant, Sexuality Workshop, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology and Harvard Center for Middle Eastern<br />
Studies, Harvard University (May 2004), Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 Organizer, Collateral Benefits: Complex Health Interventions for the Poor. Institute for Health and Social<br />
Justice Spring Forum (May 2004), Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
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2004 Health in Haiti. Direct Action Student Group, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 From Boston to Bangkok. <strong>Department</strong>al Seminar, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine. Harvard Medical<br />
School, Boston, MA.<br />
2004 AIDS in Cuba. Latin American and Caribbean Health Student Group. Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health,<br />
Boston, MA.<br />
2005 Two Decades <strong>of</strong> AIDS in Cuba: From Quarantine to Free Comprehensive Care. Harvard Center for<br />
Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2006 Living with AIDS in Cuba: Antiretroviral therapy and the social course <strong>of</strong> HIV disease. Faculty Seminar<br />
Series, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2006 Living with AIDS in Cuba: National Health Policy and Access to Comprehensive Care. Kennedy School <strong>of</strong><br />
Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2007 Moderator, “Global Health and Journalism.” Panel discussion, Harvard Initiative on Global Health<br />
(February 2007). Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2007 Integrating Prenatal Care with Care for HIV and Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Multi-<br />
Country Initiative. Global Health Delivery Seminar. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2008 HIV in the Pregnant Body, Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Body, Harvard University Inter-faculty<br />
group conference. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2008 Interfaculty collaborations, session Building Bridges Across the University: Who, What, Where, Why and<br />
How? Harvard University New Faculty Institute. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2009 <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> the Availability <strong>of</strong> Antiretrovirals on Latin American Health Policies, Harvard University<br />
Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society Spring Seminar Series. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2009 AIDS, Medical Anthropology, and Global Health: Strengthening Health Systems in Latin America and the<br />
Caribbean. Harvard Initiative for Global Health. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2009 Global Health and Latin America. Diálogo Latinoamericano Speaker Series, David Rockefeller Center for<br />
Latin American Studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2009 Chair, Public Health in Latin America Panel, the Building Bridges across the Americas Session. David<br />
Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Advisory Committee Meeting. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
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Report <strong>of</strong> Regional, National and International Invited Teaching and Presentations<br />
Teaching <strong>of</strong> Students in Courses<br />
1995 Methodologies <strong>of</strong> nutritional anthropology.<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Nutrition, Division <strong>of</strong> Medical Sciences, National University <strong>of</strong> Córdoba (Argentina).<br />
A 36-hour course delivered to nutritionists and social workers. Focused in comparative methodology and<br />
qualitative analysis.<br />
1998 Culture, Health, and Reproduction in Latin America.<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> International Health, National School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Madrid (Spain).<br />
Lecturer. A 20-hour course to Master <strong>of</strong> Public Health students.<br />
Regional, National and International Invited Presentations and Courses<br />
• Regional<br />
1990 Dietetics and Nutrition. Spanish Red Cross at Tarragona (Spain). A six-week, 24-hour course delivered to<br />
nurse aids.<br />
1990 Anthropology and Nutrition Education. Lecture, Nutrition Education Pannel, 5th Seminar <strong>of</strong> Public Health:<br />
Community Nutrition. Pius Hospital, Valls, Tarragona (Spain).<br />
2001 Industry and the Mother-to-Child Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV. A two-hour lecture. Hispanic Health Council,<br />
Hartford, CT.<br />
2001 Medicine and Social Justice. Lecture. Brandeis University. Waltham, MA.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Political Economy <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS Transmission, Prevention, and Treatment. Panelist. Global AIDS<br />
Awareness Week. University <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts. Boston, MA.<br />
2003 <strong>The</strong> Cuban Health System and its Control <strong>of</strong> Infectious Disease. Seminar for the Knight Science Journalism<br />
Fellows. Massachusetts Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2003 Blaming the HIV Patient: Structural Violence in International Health. New England International Health<br />
Medical Education Consortium Annual Meeting. Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, Massachusetts.<br />
2003 AIDS-Related Stigma and Public Health Failures. Tufts University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 Partners In Health in Latin America. Workshop on Public Service. Massachusetts Institute <strong>of</strong> Technology,<br />
Public Service Center and Western Hemisphere Project. Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
2004 International Public Health Pitfalls and Economic Arguments: <strong>The</strong> Fight Against AIDS in Cuba and Haiti,<br />
Invited Presentation in the session “Western Medicine and its Discontents,” New England Council <strong>of</strong> Latin<br />
American Studies Annual Meeting (November 2004), Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2005 AIDS in the Caribbean. International Health Medical Education Consortium Annual Meeting.<br />
Massachusetts Medical Society, Waltham, Massachusetts.<br />
2005 Living with HIV in Cuba: Antiretroviral therapy and the social course <strong>of</strong> AIDS, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Anthropology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.<br />
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2005 Two Decades <strong>of</strong> AIDS in Cuba: From Quarantine to Free Comprehensive Care. Yale University, New<br />
Haven, Connecticut.<br />
2006 Racism in Cuba, Undergraduate Course History 86 (Caribbean History), directed by Judith Byfield,<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> History, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.<br />
2006 Sexuality, gender relations, and HIV transmission in Cuba. Lecture, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> History, Dartmouth<br />
College, Hanover, New Hampshire.<br />
2008 Integrating Prenatal Care with Care for HIV and Syphilis in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Multi-<br />
Country Initiative. Lecture, Yale Global Health Week. Sponsored by the Council on Latin American<br />
Studies. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.<br />
• National<br />
1989 A study on food habits and their relationship between economic status and cultural origin amongst the<br />
dwellers <strong>of</strong> Barcelona”, 3 rd Congress <strong>of</strong> Sociology (September 1989), San Sebastián (Spain).<br />
1990 <strong>The</strong> transition from labor activity to retirement”, co-presented with Juan M. García, 1 st Conference on Preretirement<br />
and Retirement in Spain (March 1990), Fundación Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1990 <strong>The</strong> social construction <strong>of</strong> illness during retirement, co-presented with Juan M. García, 1 st Conference on<br />
Social Intervention in Health (April 1990), University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona at Tarragona (Spain).<br />
1990 A nutrition education program for households with preschool children in Sant Joan Despí, Barcelona, copresented<br />
with Silvia Carrasco, 1 st Conference on Social Intervention in Health (April 1990), University <strong>of</strong><br />
Barcelona at Tarragona (Spain).<br />
1990 Food and social integration: Food behavior <strong>of</strong> Mexican-Americans in the US, 5 th Congress <strong>of</strong> Anthropology<br />
(December 1990), Granada (Spain). Chair <strong>of</strong> the work session on Anthropology and Food.<br />
1993 Anthropology, nutrition, and public health, Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the French-speaking Dietitians Association<br />
(November 1993), Tours (France). Invited presentation.<br />
1994 <strong>The</strong> Promotion <strong>of</strong> Breastfeeding Before Birth. Seminar on Breastfeeding (September 1994), Paris (France).<br />
Organized by the International Children’s Center and UNICEF-France. Rapporteur.<br />
1995 Food and culture, Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the French-speaking Dietitians Association (November 1995), Reims<br />
(France). Invited presentation.<br />
1996 Evolution <strong>of</strong> animal and vegetal fats intake in Northern Spain. Conference on resistance and change in<br />
food behavior (October 1996), Paris.<br />
1996 Is there a relationship between the breastfeeding style and women’s status in society?, 5 th Scientific<br />
Meeting on Nutrition (November 1996), Paris.<br />
1997 <strong>The</strong> sociocultural construction <strong>of</strong> breastfeeding: <strong>The</strong> value <strong>of</strong> colostrum, 7 th International Congress on Anti-<br />
Cancer Treatments, 2nd Conference Nutrition-Cancer (February 1997), Paris.<br />
1997 Breastfeeding in Public Maternity Wards in France, 6 th Scientific Meeting on Nutrition (November 1997),<br />
Paris, France.<br />
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1997 Is Authoritative Knowledge in Infant Nutrition Compatible with Successful Breastfeeding? A perspective<br />
from France, co-presented with Laure Marchand-Lucas, in the Panel titled: <strong>The</strong> Fallacy <strong>of</strong> the Level<br />
Playing Field: Globalization, Health, and Identity. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting<br />
(November 1997), Washington, DC.<br />
1998 Cesarean Sections and Sterilizations in Latin America: New Perspectives On Fertility Decline <strong>The</strong>ories,<br />
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (December 1998), <strong>Ph</strong>iladelphia, PA.<br />
1999 <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> the Epidemic <strong>of</strong> Cesarean Sections in the Fertility Decline in Mexico, Population<br />
Association <strong>of</strong> America Annual Meeting (March 1999), New York, NY.<br />
1999 Female Sterilization in Latin America. Seminar. AVSC, New York, NY.<br />
1999 Family Planning Policies and Uninformed Consent in Latin America: A Critical Perspective on Female<br />
Sterilization, Invited Session, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 1999),<br />
Chicago, IL.<br />
1999 Discussant, Fertility Decline in Our Time and Anthropological Time: Biological and Cultural<br />
Perspectives, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 1999), Chicago, IL.<br />
2000 Dying for Growth: Infant Formula Manufacturers and the Health <strong>of</strong> the Poor. A panel presentation with<br />
Paul E. Farmer, Jim Y. Kim, Joyce V. Millen. School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, University <strong>of</strong> California, Berkeley,<br />
CA<br />
2000 <strong>The</strong> Conditionality <strong>of</strong> International Aid: <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> the Bilateral Aid-Freeze on Health and Education in<br />
Zanzibar, Tanzania, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2000), San<br />
Francisco, CA.<br />
2000 Session co-organizer: Praxis, Policy and the Poor: Critical Ethnography <strong>of</strong> International Health Policies,<br />
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2000), San Francisco, CA.<br />
2001 Global Governance and the Control <strong>of</strong> Infectious Diseases: DOTS Plus and the Green Light Committee,<br />
International Studies Association Annual International Convention (February 2001), Chicago, IL.<br />
2001 <strong>The</strong> Reform <strong>of</strong> the Cuban Health Care System, paper presented in the organized session “Cuba: TB, AIDS,<br />
and Infectious Disease in a Time <strong>of</strong> Crisis”, Social Studies <strong>of</strong> Medicine Section, Latin American Studies<br />
Association Congress (September 2001), Washington, DC.<br />
2001 Industry and the Mother-to-Child-Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV, paper presented in the organized session “Dying<br />
for Growth”, American Public Health Association (October 2001), Atlanta, GA.<br />
2001 Industry and the Mother-to-Child-Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV, paper presented in the session “Current Research<br />
on HIV/AIDS in Medical Anthropology”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting<br />
(November 2001), Washington, DC.<br />
2002 Women’s Strategies to Prevent Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV to their Infants, invited paper presented at the Society<br />
for Medical Anthropology Plenary Presidential Session “Individual Agency In Health: A Search for<br />
Instrumental Self-Determination”, Society for Applied Anthropology / Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
Meeting (March 2002), Atlanta, GA.<br />
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2002 <strong>The</strong> Challenge <strong>of</strong> Tuberculosis Control in Cuba during the Special Period, paper presented in the session<br />
“Lessons Learned from the Cuban Health System”, Society for Applied Anthropology / Society for<br />
Medical Anthropology Meeting (March 2002), Atlanta, GA.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Setting <strong>of</strong> Health Priorities in Cuba in the Last Four Decades, paper presented in the session<br />
“Confronting Global challenges to TB and HIV: <strong>The</strong> politics <strong>of</strong> Responsibility”, Society for Applied<br />
Anthropology / Society for Medical Anthropology Meeting (March 2002), Atlanta, GA.<br />
2002 Session co-organizer (with Linda Whiteford): Lessons Learned from the Cuban Health System, Society for<br />
Applied Anthropology / Society for Medical Anthropology Meeting (March 2002), Atlanta, GA.<br />
2002 Structural Violence and HIV. Minority Postdoctoral Fellows and Mentors Meeting. National Science<br />
Foundation. Arlington, VA.<br />
2002 Responses to Infectious Diseases: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis in Latin America, paper presented in the<br />
Public Policy Forum on “Bioterrorism, Epidemics, and the Future <strong>of</strong> Public Health”, American<br />
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2002), New Orleans, LA.<br />
2002 Discussant: Health in the Hands <strong>of</strong> the People? Poverty, Illness and Innovative Response, American<br />
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2002), New Orleans, LA.<br />
2002 Social Transformations and the Materiality <strong>of</strong> Culture: Revolts and Revolution in Haiti and Cuba, by A<br />
<strong>Castro</strong> and P Farmer, paper presented in the session “Recuperating the Material: Papers in Honor <strong>of</strong> Sidney<br />
W. Mintz”, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2002), New Orleans, LA.<br />
2003 TB and HIV/AIDS Control in Cuba. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Medicine Residency Program. Huron Hospital.<br />
Cleveland, OH.<br />
2003 Structural Violence in International Health: Blaming the HIV Patient. Graduate course on Health and<br />
Social Justice, dir. by Joy Marshall. Medical School, Case Western Reserve University. Cleveland, OH.<br />
2003 Cut and Tie: Cesarean Sections and Sterilizations in Mexico. Graduate course on Childbirth, Obstetrics,<br />
and Midwifery, directed by Robbie Davis-Floyd. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology. Case Western Reserve<br />
University. Cleveland, OH.<br />
2003 Health Impact <strong>of</strong> the Aid Embargo in Haiti. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology. Case Western Reserve<br />
University. Cleveland, OH.<br />
2003 AIDS Stigma and Public Health Failures, paper presented in the Public Policy Forum on “Health and Social<br />
Inequalities in the Time <strong>of</strong> AIDS,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November<br />
2003), Chicago, IL.<br />
2003 Access to Medicines in Cuba: <strong>The</strong> Hampering and Burgeoning Effects <strong>of</strong> the Trade Embargo, by <strong>Arachu</strong><br />
<strong>Castro</strong>, Lorena Barberia, and Viviana Togores, paper presented in the Society for Medical Anthropology<br />
Invited Session “Embargos, Structural Adjustment, and <strong>The</strong> War On <strong>The</strong> Poor: Critical Anthropology Of<br />
Health Perspectives,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2003), Chicago,<br />
IL.<br />
2003 Global Governance and Institutions in the Fight Against AIDS, Conference on the Social Science <strong>of</strong><br />
HIV/AIDS, Social Science Research Council (November 2003), New York, NY.<br />
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2004 Global Resources: AIDS in Haiti, Seminar on Health Crisis: HIV/AIDS in Developing World Cities,<br />
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (February 2004), Washington, DC.<br />
2004 Medical Anthropologists as Advocates: Power, Suffering, and AIDS, invited paper presented at the Society<br />
for Medical Anthropology Plenary Presidential Session “Social Science and Advocacy”, Society for<br />
Applied Anthropology / Society for Medical Anthropology Meeting (March 2004), Dallas, TX.<br />
2004 International Public Health Pitfalls and Economic Arguments: <strong>The</strong> Fight Against AIDS in Cuba and Haiti,<br />
invited presentation at the conference “Rethinking “the Public” in Public Health: Neoliberalism, Structural<br />
Violence, and Epidemics <strong>of</strong> Inequality in Latin America,” Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> California at San Diego (April 2004), La Jolla, California.<br />
2004 AIDS in the Caribbean: <strong>The</strong> Challenging Experiences <strong>of</strong> Cuba and Haiti. Global Health Series Seminar<br />
Hunter College, New York, NY.<br />
2004 AIDS in Cuba: <strong>The</strong> Epidemic that did not Happen. World AIDS Day Global Health Night, Keynote<br />
Speech. Albert Einstein College <strong>of</strong> Medicine, Bronx, NY.<br />
2005 Between poverty and a hard place: Haiti’s environment and AIDS. Haiti Symposium, Keynote Lecture.<br />
Miami University, Oxford, OH.<br />
2005 Adherence and cost <strong>of</strong> treatment: <strong>The</strong> need for a biosocial approach in the understanding <strong>of</strong> user-fees and<br />
its impact on adherence to antiretrovirals, Session “Applying Critical Medical Anthropology in an Age <strong>of</strong><br />
Neoliberalism,” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (December 2005), Washington,<br />
DC.<br />
2006 Translating theories on adherence to operational research, Invited presentation at the Specialty Topic<br />
Session “Development <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong>oretical Models for Adherence in Resource-Poor Settings.” International<br />
Conference on HIV Treatment Adherence, National Institute <strong>of</strong> Mental Health / International Association<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Ph</strong>ysicians in AIDS Care (March 2006). Jersey City, New Jersey.<br />
2006 Invited speaker, Sexuality, gender relations, and HIV in women: <strong>The</strong> impact <strong>of</strong> ART in elective<br />
pregnancies in Cuba, Meeting on <strong>The</strong> Social Impacts <strong>of</strong> ARV Scale Up: Developing an Interdisciplinary<br />
Research Agenda, Columbia University’s HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies (September<br />
2006), New York, New York.<br />
2006 <strong>The</strong> Right to Health in the Midst <strong>of</strong> Poverty: Health Seeking in Venezuela, Cuba, and Haiti. Program in<br />
Latin American Studies, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey.<br />
2006 Tuberculosis control in Haiti: Political instability and access to health care for the poor, by <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>,<br />
Mary C. Smith Fawzi, Sarah Gillen, Joas Fleurimond, Leneus Joseph, Marie Andrela, Alexis, Richard<br />
D'Meza. Session “A Decade <strong>of</strong> Health Sector Reform: <strong>The</strong> Legacy <strong>of</strong> Neoliberalism,” American Public<br />
Health Association Annual Meeting (November 2006). Boston, Massachusetts.<br />
2006 Discussant, Session Should Anthropologists Intervene in the New War on the Poor? Health, Neoliberalism,<br />
and Human Rights. Committee for Human Rights <strong>of</strong> the American Association <strong>of</strong> Anthropology. American<br />
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 2006), San José, California.<br />
2006 Session chair and co-organizer (with James Pfeiffer), Structural Violence: Power and Resistance in Access<br />
to Health, Invited session by the Society for Medical Anthropology. American Anthropological Association<br />
Annual Meeting (November 2006), San José, California.<br />
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2006 Health Seeking and Structural Violence, Session “Structural Violence: Power and Resistance in Access to<br />
Health,” Invited session by the Society for Medical Anthropology. American Anthropological Association<br />
Annual Meeting (November 2006), San José, California.<br />
2007 Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in Latin America. Wenner-Gren Foundation Symposium<br />
“Plagues: Models and Metaphors in the Human Struggle with Disease” (September 2007), Tucson,<br />
Arizona.<br />
2007 Discussant, Session Immigration and Health Disparities: Case Studies <strong>of</strong> Survival and Resilience,<br />
organized by Julia A Cottle and Anahí Viladrich, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting<br />
(November 2007), Washington, DC.<br />
2008 Understanding sexual risk in Cuban men prior to HIV diagnosis, American Anthropological Association<br />
Annual Meeting (November 2008), San Francisco, California.<br />
2008 Chair, Session HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, American Anthropological Association Annual<br />
Meeting (November 2008), San Francisco, California.<br />
2009 Integrating Prenatal Care with the Diagnosis and Clinical Management <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis: A Latin<br />
American and Caribbean Initiative. Lecture, Social Medicine Seminar and Global Health Week, Albert<br />
Einstein College <strong>of</strong> Medicine, Bronx, NY.<br />
2009 Global Health: Diagnosis and Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis during Pregnancy in Latin America. Lecture,<br />
School <strong>of</strong> Health Sciences, Hunter College, <strong>The</strong> City University <strong>of</strong> New York, NY.<br />
2009 HIV, Stigma, and Access to Treatment. Invited lecture. AIDS Institute, New York State <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Health (April 2009), Albany, New York.<br />
2009 Prenatal testing for HIV and syphilis in Latin America, Invited speaker, Conference on Congenital Syphilis,<br />
A Public Health Issue <strong>of</strong> Concern: Focus on Latin America, <strong>The</strong> University at Albany Center for Global<br />
Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, University <strong>of</strong> Connecticut School <strong>of</strong> Medicine, and New<br />
York State <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Health (May 2009), Albany, New York.<br />
Forthcoming:<br />
2009 University <strong>of</strong> Florida’s Bacardi Family Distinguished Lecture, Bacardi Lecture Series on Health Issues in<br />
Latin America and the Caribbean. Sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies and the Health<br />
Science Center (September 2009). Gainesville, Florida.<br />
2009 Session co-organizer, Ethnography that Matters: Case Studies in Critical Medical Anthropology, organized<br />
withh Alisse Waterston. Society for Medical Anthropology Conference, "Medical Anthropology at the<br />
Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years <strong>of</strong> Interdisciplinarity." Yale University (September 2009). New Haven,<br />
Connecticut.<br />
2009 <strong>The</strong> Operational Research Process <strong>of</strong> the Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for the Integration <strong>of</strong><br />
Prenatal Care with the Testing and Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis, paper accepted for presentation at the<br />
session Ethnography that Matters: Case Studies in Critical Medical Anthropology, organized by <strong>Arachu</strong><br />
<strong>Castro</strong> and Alisse Waterston. Society for Medical Anthropology conference, "Medical Anthropology at the<br />
Intersections: Celebrating 50 Years <strong>of</strong> Interdisciplinarity." Yale University (September 2009). New Haven,<br />
Connecticut.<br />
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• International<br />
1989 Food Practices <strong>of</strong> Mexican-Americans in Tulare County, California. Lecture for the faculty and staff <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Nutrition, University <strong>of</strong> California at Berkeley.<br />
1990 Food packages and packaging, 4 th Annual Conference <strong>of</strong> the Association for the Study <strong>of</strong> Food and Society<br />
ASFS (June 1990), <strong>Ph</strong>iladelphia, PA.<br />
1991 <strong>The</strong> Relevance <strong>of</strong> Anthropology in the Epidemiological Study <strong>of</strong> Nutrition. Lecture, Master <strong>of</strong> Medical<br />
Anthropology, University <strong>of</strong> Paris X at Nanterre (France).<br />
1991 Nutrition and Social Anthropology: North <strong>of</strong> Spain. Lecture, Groupe de Travail Anthropologie Alimentaire<br />
des Populations Traditionnelles, International Comission on the Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Food and Food Problems<br />
(ICAF). Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris (France).<br />
1991 Gender difference in food socialization among the villagers <strong>of</strong> the Cerdanya Valley in the Eastern<br />
Pyrenees, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November 1991), Chicago, IL.<br />
1992 Nutritional Anthropology and the Acquisition <strong>of</strong> Food Practices. Lecture, 3rd Seminar on Community<br />
Nutrition, Public Health Division, and Health Studies Institute IES, Generalitat de Catalunya (Spain).<br />
1992 <strong>The</strong> role <strong>of</strong> anthropology in the implementation <strong>of</strong> food and nutrition policies, 11 th International Congress<br />
<strong>of</strong> Dietetics (March 1992), Jerusalem (Israel).<br />
1992 Anthropology applied to food and nutrition policies, 2 nd European Conference on Food and Nutrition<br />
Policy (April 1992), <strong>The</strong> Hague (Netherlands) Under the auspices <strong>of</strong> the World Health Organization,<br />
Regional <strong>Office</strong> for Europe.<br />
1992 <strong>The</strong> Sociocultural Research on Food. Lecture, Doctoral Program, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Social Anthropology,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1992 Nutritional Anthropology. Master <strong>of</strong> Food and Nutritional Sciences, School <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ph</strong>armacy, University <strong>of</strong><br />
Barcelona (Spain). A 12-hour course delivered to medical doctors.<br />
1992 Facts and fats: Culture, food intake, and public health in Northern Spain. International Multidisciplinary<br />
Conference on Food Choice (July 1992), Brussels (Belgium).<br />
1992 Applied anthropology and public health nutrition, 2 nd Biennial European Association <strong>of</strong> Social<br />
Anthropologists Conference (August 1992), Prague (Czech Republic).<br />
1992 From the family to the household: <strong>The</strong> contribution <strong>of</strong> the social sciences in the study <strong>of</strong> malnutrition, 4 th<br />
National Congress <strong>of</strong> Sociology (September 1992), Madrid (Spain).<br />
1992 International Conference on Nutrition (December 1992) Rome (Italy). Organized by FAO and WHO.<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> the Delegation <strong>of</strong> Spain, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Agriculture.<br />
1995 Anthropology and food practices. Municipality <strong>of</strong> Córdoba (Argentina). Lecture organized by the School <strong>of</strong><br />
Nutrition, Division <strong>of</strong> Medical Sciences, National University <strong>of</strong> Córdoba (Argentina).<br />
1995 Sociocultural factors <strong>of</strong> nutrition throughout the life cycle. A two-hour lecture in the Psycho-Sociology<br />
course. School <strong>of</strong> Nutrition, Division <strong>of</strong> Medical Sciences, National University <strong>of</strong> Córdoba (Argentina).<br />
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1995 Sociocultural aspects <strong>of</strong> nutrition and breastfeeding. Lecture, Argentinean Society <strong>of</strong> Pediatrics, Córdoba<br />
(Argentina).<br />
1997 <strong>The</strong> decision-making process in the sociocultural construction <strong>of</strong> breastfeeding. A two-hour lecture to<br />
postgraduate students in Cognitive Anthropology. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology, University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona<br />
(Spain).<br />
1997 Sociocultural constructions <strong>of</strong> breastfeeding: A comparative approach <strong>of</strong> motherhood in contemporary<br />
women. A two-hour lecture in the doctoral seminar “Advanced sociology”, directed by Jesús M. de Miguel.<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1998 Qualitative analysis <strong>of</strong> health data. A two-hour lecture. National Institute <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Cuernavaca<br />
(Mexico).<br />
1998 <strong>The</strong> epidemic <strong>of</strong> cesarean sections in Latin America. A two-hour lecture to Latin American physicians<br />
enrolled in a South to South Cooperation Training in Public Health. Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health, Mexico City<br />
(Mexico).<br />
1998 Chair and Discussant, Breastfeeding and Work in Latin America, First Latin American Conference <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Lacmat Network (October 1998), La Plata, Argentina.<br />
1999 Epidemic <strong>of</strong> Cesarean Sections in Latin America. A two-hour lecture to doctoral students. Center <strong>of</strong><br />
Demographic Studies, Autonomous University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Bellaterra (Spain).<br />
1999 Round-table participant, Expectations and Motivations to Participating in Clinical Research: Incorporating<br />
the Participant’s Perspective into Research Protocols, Revising the Declaration <strong>of</strong> Helsinki: A Fresh Start,<br />
organized by the Bulletin <strong>of</strong> Medical Ethics and <strong>The</strong> European Forum for Good Clinical Practice. <strong>The</strong><br />
Royal Society <strong>of</strong> Medicine (September 1999), London, United Kingdom.<br />
2000 Health Priorities and Health Research in Latin America, co-authored with Paul Farmer. A WHO Workshop<br />
on Ethical Review Committees in Latin American Countries. Colegio de México (October 2000), Mexico<br />
City, Mexico.<br />
2000 Ethical Cases <strong>of</strong> International Health Research. A one-hour lecture in the course Ethical Issues <strong>of</strong><br />
International Health Research. National Institute <strong>of</strong> Public Health and Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health,<br />
Cuernavaca (Mexico).<br />
2000 Health Priorities and Health Research in Latin America. A two-hour lecture to graduate students. FLACSO<br />
(Latin American School <strong>of</strong> Social Sciences), Buenos Aires (Argentina).<br />
2001 Social Conditions Affecting the Increase <strong>of</strong> Aedes aegypti and Dengue Transmission: <strong>The</strong> Mexico-US<br />
Border. A two-hour lecture. 7 th International Course on Dengue. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro<br />
Kourí. Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 Increasing Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs, including Highly Active Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy. Pan American<br />
Health Organization Regional Technical Consultation, Regional Forum 2002: <strong>The</strong> Challenges <strong>of</strong> the<br />
HIV/AIDS Pandemic for the Reform and Strengthening <strong>of</strong> Health Systems and Services in Latin America<br />
and the Caribbean (February 2002). Ocho Ríos, Jamaica.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Setting <strong>of</strong> Health Priorities in Cuba in the Last Four Decades, paper presented in the session “Global<br />
Health and Lessons from the Cuban Revolution”, International Health Medical Education Committee<br />
Meeting (March 2002), Havana, Cuba.<br />
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2002 Session co-organizer (with Linda Whiteford): Global Health and Lessons from the Cuban Revolution,<br />
International Health Medical Education Consortium Meeting (March 2002), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> Health Systems Reform in the Control and Prevention <strong>of</strong> Tuberculosis, PAHO Expert<br />
Consultation Meeting on the Impact <strong>of</strong> Health Systems Reform on the Control and Prevention <strong>of</strong> Infectious<br />
Diseases in Latin America and the Caribbean (April 2002), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> Health Systems Reform in the Control and Prevention <strong>of</strong> Tuberculosis, paper presented in<br />
the Plenary Session at the International Convention in Public Health 2002 (May 2002), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Political Economy <strong>of</strong> the Prevention <strong>of</strong> Mother-to-Child Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV, paper presented at the<br />
International Convention in Public Health 2002 (May 2002), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 Care, treatment and support <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS patients in rural Haiti, paper presented at the Canadian<br />
International Development Agency (CIDA) Expert Consultation Meeting on Building Comprehensive<br />
Approaches to HIV/AIDS Care, Treatment and Support in Resource Limited Settings (June 2002),<br />
Ottawa, Canada.<br />
2002 Redefining Infrastructure: untapped potential <strong>of</strong> a Peruvian community-based organization for delivering<br />
anti retroviral therapy, by M C Arbour, Z Montin, J S Mukherjee, J Y Kim, J Bayona, A <strong>Castro</strong>, A M<br />
Chavez, poster presented at the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 Developing a clinical algorithm for the use <strong>of</strong> HAART in Rural Haiti, by P Farmer, F Leandre, J S<br />
Mukherjee, M S Claude, P Nevil, M C Smith Fawzi, S P Koenig, A <strong>Castro</strong>, M C Becerra, M Addo, B<br />
Walker, J Y Kim, abstract accepted, the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> use <strong>of</strong> HAART in children in Rural Haiti, by J S Mukherjee, P Farmer, F Leandre, M S Claude, P<br />
Nevil, M C Smith Fawzi, S P Koenig, A <strong>Castro</strong>, M C Becerra, M Addo, B Walker, J Y Kim, abstract<br />
accepted, the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings, by P Farmer, F Leandre, J S<br />
Mukherjee, M S Claude, P Nevil, M C Smith-Fawzi, S P Koenig, A <strong>Castro</strong>, M C Becerra, M Addo, B<br />
Walker, J Y Kim, abstract accepted, the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 Maximizing adherence and prevention <strong>of</strong> resistance through directly observed therapy: DOT-HAART, by<br />
F Léandre, P Farmer, JS Mukherjee, MS Claude, P Nevil, MC Smith Fawzi, SP Koenig, A <strong>Castro</strong>, MC<br />
Becerra, M Addo, B Walker, JY Kim, poster presented at the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July<br />
2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 Session chair: Issues in Community-Based Research, 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002),<br />
Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 <strong>The</strong> Political Economy <strong>of</strong> the Prevention <strong>of</strong> Postnatal Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV, by A <strong>Castro</strong> and JS Mukherjee,<br />
poster presented at the 14 th International AIDS Conference (July 2002), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2002 Medical Anthropology and Epidemiological Research. Lecture. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí.<br />
Havana, Cuba.<br />
2002 Responses to Infectious Diseases: HIV/AIDS and Tuberculosis, Invited paper, 3 rd European Molecular<br />
Biology Institute and European Molecular Biology Organization Joint Conference on Science and Society<br />
(November 2002), Heidelberg, Germany.<br />
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2003 Rapporteur <strong>of</strong> the Working Group on Epidemiological Surveillance, Meeting on the Prevention <strong>of</strong> Maternal<br />
Mortality in Haiti. Haitian Ministry <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Pan American Health Organization, and Cuban<br />
Cooperation in Haiti (March 2003), Port-au-Prince, Haiti.<br />
2003 Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Care in rural Haiti: <strong>The</strong> Experience <strong>of</strong> Partners In Health, Invited Round Table<br />
Presentation, 2nd Latin American Forum on HIV/AIDS (April 2003), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2003 Socio-Political Determinants <strong>of</strong> HIV Infection in Latin America and the Caribbean, Invited Plenary<br />
Lecture, 2nd Latin American Forum on HIV/AIDS (April 2003), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2003 Opportunities for Anthropology in HIV/AIDS: Reflections on the Role <strong>of</strong> Anthropology in the<br />
Understanding and Managing <strong>of</strong> Stigma from <strong>The</strong>ory to Practice, Invited Plenary Lecture, Symposium on<br />
Challenging Expectations, Expecting Challenges: Practitioners and Researchers Confront HIV/AIDS (June<br />
2003), University <strong>of</strong> Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom.<br />
2003 Social Conditions Affecting the Increase <strong>of</strong> Aedes aegypti and Dengue Transmission in Latin America. A<br />
one-hour lecture. 8 th International Course on Dengue. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí. Havana,<br />
Cuba.<br />
2003 Social Conditions Affecting the Increase <strong>of</strong> Aedes aegypti and Dengue Transmission in Latin America: <strong>The</strong><br />
Case <strong>of</strong> Haiti. A one-hour lecture. 8 th International Course on Dengue. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro<br />
Kourí. Havana, Cuba.<br />
2003 AIDS and Medical Anthropology: Qualitative Research and the Life History. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine<br />
Pedro Kourí. Havana, Cuba. A 20-hour course delivered to psychologists, pharmacologists, and social<br />
workers.<br />
2003 Ideology, Power, and Inequality: Urgency and Inaction in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, paper presented at<br />
the conference “Inequality, Globalization, and Reemergence <strong>of</strong> Infectious Disease in Latin America.”<br />
Organized by the Laboratory on Social Sciences (LACSO), the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation School <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Health, and the Social, Economical and Behavioral Research Committee <strong>of</strong> the Special Programme for<br />
Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, TDR, World Bank-UNDP-WHO (October 2003), Angra dos<br />
Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
2004 Social Inequalities, Drug Resistant TB, and Co-Infection HIV-TB. Course on TB in the New Millenium:<br />
TB, AIDS and Multi-Drug Resistance. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine IPK, Havana, Cuba.<br />
2004 Socio-cultural Factors in the Prevention <strong>of</strong> HIV Transmission. Course on TB in the New Millenium: TB,<br />
AIDS and Multi-Drug Resistance. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine IPK, Havana, Cuba.<br />
2004 Social Forces and Drug Resistance: <strong>The</strong> Impact <strong>of</strong> Poverty and Social Inequalities, invited presentation at<br />
the Tropical Disease Research Symposium 2004 on Social, Economic and Biological Determinants <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Emergence and Spread <strong>of</strong> Drug and Insecticide Resistance, UNICEF/UNDP/WORLDBANK/UNICEF/<br />
WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases and Noguchi Memorial Institute<br />
for Medical Research (May 2004), Accra, Ghana.<br />
2004 Social Inequality and Dengue Transmission in Latin America, by <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> (presenter), Yasmin<br />
Khawja, Jay Johnston, Michael Herce, and Paul Farmer. Invited presentation at the International<br />
Conference on Dengue and Yellow Fever, Cuban Ministry <strong>of</strong> Public Health, World Health Organization,<br />
Pan American Health Organization, and UNICEF/UNDP/WORLDBANK/UNICEF/WHO Special<br />
Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (June 2004), Havana, Cuba.<br />
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2004 Allocating Resources to AIDS Program in the Caribbean, invited presentation at the Conference on<br />
“Current Challenges and Perspectives <strong>of</strong> Health Systems in Latin America: Universal Social Protection and<br />
the Fight Against AIDS,” Brazilian Ministry <strong>of</strong> Health, GTZ, and Pan American Health Organization (June<br />
2004), Brasilia, Brazil.<br />
2004 New ways <strong>of</strong> managing and sharing knowledge for scale-up, Expert Consultation on Operational Research<br />
for HIV Treatment Scale-up in Resource-Limited Settings, World Health Organization (July 2004),<br />
Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
2004 Adherence and Cost <strong>of</strong> Treatment: <strong>The</strong> Need for a Biosocial Approach in the Understanding <strong>of</strong> User-Fees<br />
and its Impact on Adherence to Antiretrovirals, by A <strong>Castro</strong> and P Farmer, poster presented at the 15 th<br />
International AIDS Conference (July 2004), Bangkok, Thailand. Poster number WePeB5809.<br />
2004 Public Health Pitfalls: <strong>The</strong> Use <strong>of</strong> Economic Arguments to Fight AIDS in the Caribbean, by A <strong>Castro</strong> and P<br />
Farmer, poster presented at the 15 th International AIDS Conference (July 2004), Bangkok, Thailand. Poster<br />
number ThPeE7950.<br />
2004 AIDS-Related Stigma and Access to Comprehensive AIDS Care: From Social <strong>The</strong>ory to Clinical Practice<br />
in rural Haiti, by A <strong>Castro</strong>, F Léandre, M Raymonville, and P Farmer, poster presented at the 15 th<br />
International AIDS Conference (July 2004), Bangkok, Thailand. Poster number ThPeB7150.<br />
2004 Social and economic impact <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS on food security and nutritional status, Invited Speaker,<br />
Scientific Meeting to Commemorate the 55 th Anniversary <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong> Nutrition <strong>of</strong> Central America<br />
and Panama, INCAP (September 2004), Guatemala City, Guatemala.<br />
2004 Acting Chair, Health Systems Working Group. International Workshop on Implementing Operational<br />
Research For HIV Treatment Scale-Up In Low-Resource Settings, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS, World<br />
Health Organization, and UNICEF/UNDP/WORLDBANK/UNICEF/WHO Special Programme for<br />
Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (December 2004), Kampala, Uganda.<br />
2005 Chair, Workshop on Resource Allocation Practices in the Prevention and Care <strong>of</strong> AIDS in the Caribbean,<br />
co-sponsored by the Pan-Caribbean Partnership Against HIV/AIDS (PANCAP), the Program in Infectious<br />
Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American<br />
Studies at Harvard University, and the Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí (March 2005), Havana,<br />
Cuba.<br />
2005 On the right to health, Plenary lecture at the 2 nd People’s Health Assembly (July 2005), Cuenca, Ecuador.<br />
2005 Paying for health care and medications. Why in poor settings?, invited presentation at the 2 nd People’s<br />
Health Assembly (July 2005), Cuenca, Ecuador.<br />
2005 Conceptual and practical barriers to health, invited presentation at the 2 nd People’s Health Assembly (July<br />
2005), Cuenca, Ecuador.<br />
2005 Factors Associated with Late Presentation for HIV Care Among Patients in Hinche, Central Haiti, by C<br />
Louis, L Ivers, K Freedberg, MC Smith Fawzi, A <strong>Castro</strong>, J Georges, F Bia, 3 rd International AIDS Society<br />
Conference on HIV Pathogenesis and Treatment (July 2005), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
2005 Social Conditions Affecting the Increase <strong>of</strong> Aedes aegypti and Dengue Transmission in Latin America. A<br />
one-hour lecture. 9 th International Course on Dengue. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí. Havana,<br />
Cuba.<br />
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2005 Introduction to Qualitative Research. A 24-hour course. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí.<br />
Havana, Cuba.<br />
2005 Tuberculosis control in social context, 2 nd Scientific Working Group Meeting on Tuberculosis.<br />
UNICEF/UNDP/WORLDBANK/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical<br />
Diseases (October 2005), Geneva, Switzerland.<br />
2005 <strong>The</strong> complexity <strong>of</strong> studying adherence to antiretroviral therapy, Seminar on Infectious Disease and Medical<br />
Anthropology, Group on Medical Anthropology, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology, Universidad de los Andes<br />
(October 2005), Bogota, Colombia.<br />
2005 Primary care in politically marginalized areas: Community health workers developing clinical services in<br />
rural Chiapas, by Holt CT, Herce M, <strong>Castro</strong> A, Mukherjee J, 133 rd Annual Meeting <strong>of</strong> the American Public<br />
Health Association (December 2005), <strong>Ph</strong>iladelphia, PA. Poster number 107241.<br />
2006 Social vulnerability and health-seeking behavior, International Workshop on Equitable Access to Health<br />
Care and Infectious Disease Control: Concepts, Measurement and Interventions, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz<br />
and UN Program on Tropical Disease Research (February 2006), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<br />
2006 Stigma and Adherence to Antiretrovirals: A Biosocial Approach. Lecture, University <strong>of</strong> Fortaleza, Brazil.<br />
2006 AIDS and Inequality in the Caribbean, Latin American Studies Association Annual Meeting (March 2006),<br />
San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
2006 Methodological approaches <strong>of</strong> the social sciences in public health, Plenary session, Conference on the<br />
Contributions <strong>of</strong> the Social Sciences to Public Health and HIV/AIDS Programs in Sub-Saharan Africa,<br />
Medicus Mundi (April 2006), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2006 Women living with HIV in Cuba: the impact <strong>of</strong> ART on elective pregnancies, by González-Núñez I,<br />
Khawja Y, <strong>Castro</strong> A, Díaz-Jidy M, Pérez-Ávila J, 16 th International AIDS Conference (August 2006),<br />
Toronto, Canada. Abstract number CDD1072.<br />
2006 Towards universal access to health: <strong>The</strong> challenge <strong>of</strong> poverty for public health programs. Opening lecture.<br />
International Conference on Responsibility, Justice, and Exclusion. Which Health Systems for which<br />
Objectives? (November 2006). Québec City.<br />
2006 Invited speaker, Sexuality, gender relations and women’s rights: A social science approach to the<br />
understanding <strong>of</strong> HIV transmission, Task Force meeting on Women, Children, and the HIV/AIDS<br />
Pandemic in Africa: Overcoming Obstacles to the Provision <strong>of</strong> Sexual and Reproductive Health Services<br />
Through a Combined Social Science/Public Health Perspective,” Medicus Mundi Catalunya and Spanish<br />
International Cooperation Agency (AECI) (November 2006), Barcelona, Spain.<br />
2006 AIDS in the Caribbean: Social Impact, Invited speaker, International Workshop <strong>of</strong> WHO Collaborating<br />
Centers and Institutions <strong>of</strong> Scientific Excellence, World Health Organization, Pan American Health<br />
Organization, and Cuban Ministry <strong>of</strong> Public Health (November 2006), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2006 Rapporteur, Plenary Session Knowledge Networks <strong>of</strong> WHO Collaborative Centers and Institutions <strong>of</strong><br />
Scientific Excellence in Latin America and the Caribbean and their role in the Millennium Development<br />
Goals, International Workshop <strong>of</strong> WHO Collaborating Centers and Institutions <strong>of</strong> Scientific Excellence,<br />
World Health Organization, Pan American Health Organization, and Cuban Ministry <strong>of</strong> Public Health<br />
(November 2006), Havana, Cuba.<br />
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2006 <strong>The</strong> impact <strong>of</strong> ART on quality <strong>of</strong> life <strong>of</strong> people living with AIDS in Cuba, by <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Carlos<br />
Aragonés. Invited speakers, 2006 National Forum <strong>of</strong> Health Research and Innovation (FIINSA), Cuban<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong> Public Health and Pan American Health Organization (November 2006), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2006 Sexuality, gender relations, and HIV transmission in Cuba, Workshop on Sexuality, Gender Relations and<br />
HIV Transmission in Cuba, National Center for Sex Education (December 2006), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2006 Public Health Interventions: Infectious Disease and Social Epidemiology, Workshop on Social<br />
Epidemiology, El Colegio de Sonora and CIESAS (December 2006), Cuernavaca, Mexico.<br />
2006 AIDS in the Caribbean, Panel following the documentary “<strong>The</strong> Origin <strong>of</strong> AIDS,” Bahamas International<br />
Film Festival (December 2006), Nassau, Bahamas.<br />
2006 Medical anthropology and international health. A three-hour course, Doctoral Program in Medical<br />
Anthropology. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Anthropology, University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.<br />
2007 <strong>The</strong> right to health and social inclusion in Venezuela. A two-hour course. Doctoral Program in Public<br />
Health. National University <strong>of</strong> Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia.<br />
2007 Sexuality, gender relations and HIV transmission in Cuba. Lecture, National University <strong>of</strong> Colombia,<br />
Bogotá, Colombia.<br />
2007 Social Conditions Affecting the Increase <strong>of</strong> Aedes aegypti and Dengue Transmission in Latin America. A<br />
one-hour lecture. 10 th International Course on Dengue. Institute <strong>of</strong> Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí. Havana,<br />
Cuba.<br />
2007 <strong>The</strong> trajectory <strong>of</strong> pregnant women in their search for health care. Training session <strong>of</strong> the MTCT national<br />
prevention strategy, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Social Protection and UNICEF, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> Córdoba,<br />
Colombia. Montería, Colombia.<br />
2007 <strong>The</strong> trajectory <strong>of</strong> pregnant women in their search for health care. Training session <strong>of</strong> the MTCT national<br />
prevention strategy, Ministry <strong>of</strong> Social Protection and UNICEF, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Health <strong>of</strong> La Guajira,<br />
Colombia. Riohacha, Colombia.<br />
2007 Barrio Adentro: Responding to the Health Needs <strong>of</strong> the poor in Venezuela, by María Esperanza Martínez,<br />
Sarai Vivas, and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>. Session “<strong>The</strong> Science, Politics and Everyday Life <strong>of</strong> Latin American<br />
Health Care Reform. Latin American Studies Association Meeting (September 2007), Montreal, Quebec,<br />
Canada.<br />
2007 Invited speaker, Equity in access to health care. International Seminar on Equity in Health, National<br />
University <strong>of</strong> Colombia (October 2007). Bogotá, Colombia.<br />
2007 HIV, vulnerability, and risk. A four-hour lecture. 1 st Course on Human Development and HIV/AIDS,<br />
Presidential Council on HIV/AIDS (COPRESIDA) and United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). Santo<br />
Domingo, Dominican Republic.<br />
2007 HIV, poverty, and pregnancy. A four-hour lecture. 1 st Course on Human Development and HIV/AIDS,<br />
Presidential Council on HIV/AIDS (COPRESIDA) and United Nations Development Fund (UNDP). Santo<br />
Domingo, Dominican Republic.<br />
2007 Objectives and Strategic Planning. 1st Meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Latin America and Caribbean Prenatal Testing<br />
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Initiative <strong>of</strong> Horizontal Cooperation in the Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Diagnosis and Treatment <strong>of</strong><br />
HIV and Syphilis. Panama City, Panama.<br />
2008 Research Methodology. 2nd Meeting <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Latin America and Caribbean Prenatal Testing Initiative <strong>of</strong><br />
Horizontal Cooperation in the Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Diagnosis and Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV and<br />
Syphilis. Bogotá, Colombia.<br />
2008 Social Science Research in Health. Invited speaker. 90 th Anniversary <strong>of</strong> the School <strong>of</strong> Public Health,<br />
University <strong>of</strong> São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.<br />
2008 Qualitative Research in Health. Opening lecture, 3 rd Iberoamerican Congress on Qualitative Health<br />
Research. Graduate School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, University <strong>of</strong> Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico.<br />
2008 <strong>The</strong> Latin America and Caribbean Prenatal Testing Initiative <strong>of</strong> Horizontal Cooperation in the Integration<br />
<strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Diagnosis and Treatment <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis, by A. <strong>Castro</strong>, N. Aguayo, F.<br />
Amado, A. M. Barboza, C. Bautista, J. Bayona, S. Caicedo, J. Calderón, M. Connolly, N. Corredor, L.<br />
Cuevas, J. R. Espinoza, R. García, V. López, R. Luque, L. Matida, R. Mazin, K. Mc<strong>Ph</strong>illips, S. Moraga, C.<br />
Núñez, J. Pérez, C. Possas, J.L. Sebastián, M. Sendic Sudbrack, G. Tambini, C. Yamin, poster accepted for<br />
presentation, the 17 th International AIDS Conference (August 2008), Mexico City, Mexico.<br />
2008 Quality <strong>of</strong> Life <strong>of</strong> People Living with AIDS and Receiving Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy in Cuba, by C.<br />
Aragonés López, J. Pérez Ávila, J.R. Campos Díaz, Y. Khawja, A. <strong>Castro</strong>, poster accepted for presentation,<br />
the 17 th International AIDS Conference (August 2008), Mexico City, Mexico.<br />
2008 Increase in elective pregnancies among women living with HIV in Cuba: <strong>The</strong> impact <strong>of</strong> universal access to<br />
antiretroviral therapy, by I. González-Núñez, Y. Khawja, A. <strong>Castro</strong>, poster accepted for presentation, the<br />
17 th International AIDS Conference (August 2008), Mexico City, Mexico.<br />
2008 Vulnerability and risk: Anthropological and epidemiological perspectives to understand the spread <strong>of</strong> HIV.<br />
Invited speaker, Roundtable on Risk: Social Sciences, <strong>Ph</strong>ilosophy, Communication and Epidemiology, 18 th<br />
World Congress <strong>of</strong> Epidemiology. Porto Alegre, Brazil.<br />
2008 Health and Social Inclusion in Venezuela, Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action<br />
on the Social Determinants <strong>of</strong> Health, Commission on Social Determinants <strong>of</strong> Health. London, UK.<br />
2009 <strong>The</strong> Latin American and Caribbean Initiative for the Integration <strong>of</strong> Prenatal Care with the Diagnosis and<br />
Clinical Management <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis, Presidential Council on AIDS (COPRESIDA) (January 2009),<br />
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.<br />
Forthcoming:<br />
2009 Understanding sexual risk in Cuban men prior to HIV diagnosis, 70 th Anniversary <strong>of</strong> the Institute <strong>of</strong><br />
Tropical Medicine Pedro Kourí Congress (June 2009), Havana, Cuba.<br />
2009 Strengthening <strong>of</strong> prenatal care in the response to HIV and syphilis: <strong>The</strong> Experience <strong>of</strong> Eight Countries in<br />
Latin America and the Caribbean, 5th Latin American and Caribbean Forum on HIV/AIDS and Sexually<br />
Transmitted Infections (November 2009), Lima, Peru.<br />
2010 Chair and organizer, Social Determinants <strong>of</strong> TB Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment, Invited Plenary<br />
Session. 14th Conference <strong>of</strong> the Union North America Region, International Union Against Tuberculosis<br />
and Lung Disease (March 2010). Orlando, Florida.<br />
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2010 <strong>The</strong> Social Context <strong>of</strong> Tuberculosis Transmission and Disease Progression, Invited plenary presentation,<br />
session on Social Determinants <strong>of</strong> TB Transmission, Diagnosis, and Treatment. 14th Conference <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Union North America Region, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (March 2010).<br />
Orlando, Florida.<br />
Report <strong>of</strong> Education <strong>of</strong> Patients and Service to the Community<br />
Activities<br />
1982-3 English. Educational program for Mexican-American children attending Santa Cruz Primary School.<br />
Santa Clara County Board <strong>of</strong> Education, CA.<br />
1992 Food practices in la Rioja. Lecture organized by the Rioja Friendship Association, Logroño (Spain).<br />
1998 A historical analysis <strong>of</strong> animal and vegetal fat intake in Northern Spain. A two-hour lecture. Culinary<br />
Historians <strong>of</strong> Boston, Radcliffe College, Cambridge, MA.<br />
2000 Medical Anthropology and Micr<strong>of</strong>inance. Discussant in a panel discussion on the documentary “Sixteen<br />
Decisions.” Museum <strong>of</strong> Fine Arts, Boston, MA.<br />
2004 Discussant to the film “A Closer Walk,” 38 Cameron, Cambridge, Massachusetts.<br />
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Report <strong>of</strong> Scholarship<br />
Publications<br />
Research Investigations in Anthropological and Public Health Books<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, 1998, Saber bien: Cultura y prácticas alimentarias en la Rioja. Logroño, Spain: Gobierno de<br />
La Rioja, Consejería de Salud and Instituto de Estudios Riojanos, 234 pp. ISBN 84-89362-43-2.<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Merrill Singer (eds.), 2004, Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological<br />
Examination. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 384 pp. ISBN 0-7591-0511-1 (paper) and 0-7591-0510-3<br />
(cloth).<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Renato Gusmão, M. Esperanza Martínez, Sarai Vivas (eds.), 2006, Barrio Adentro: Derecho a<br />
la salud e inclusión social en Venezuela. Caracas: Pan American Health Organization, 152 pp. ISBN 980-6678-<br />
02-8. [English translation: Mission Barrio Adentro: <strong>The</strong> Right to Health and Social Inclusión in Venezuela. 135<br />
pp.; French translation: Barrio Adentro : Le droit à la santé et à l’inclusion sociale au Venezuela. 163 pp.].<br />
Research Investigations<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Emigración y hábitos alimentarios”, Revista Rol de Enfermería 14:151, pp. 91-93 (March<br />
1991).<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Para un análisis socioantropológico de las prácticas de alimentación”, Revista Española de<br />
Investigaciones Sociológicas 53, pp. 199-222 (November 1991).<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong>. <strong>Castro</strong>, “Envases alimentarios o alimentos envasados”, Arxiu d’Etnografia de Catalunya 7, pp. 137-<br />
149 (May 1991).<br />
4. H. M. Macbeth, A.M. Green, and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>: “Gender differences in adolescents views about food: A<br />
study <strong>of</strong> teenage food preferences in a Pyrenean Valley”, Social Biology and Human Affairs 55:2, pp. 79-92<br />
(November 1991).<br />
5. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “La antropología aplicada a las políticas de alimentación y nutrición”, Revista Rol de<br />
Enfermería 15:169, pp. 75-78 (September 1992).<br />
6. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “L’especificitat de l’antropologia en els estudis d’alimentació”, Revista d’Etnologia de<br />
Catalunya 2, p. 64-71 (February 1993).<br />
7. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Anthropology applied to food and nutrition policies”, in D.G. van der Heij et al (eds) Food<br />
and Nutrition Policy in Europe. Wageningen, Netherlands, Pudoc Scientific Publishers, 1993, pp. 189-195.<br />
8. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “La fixité dans l’utilisation des graisses mise en question: Changements dans l’Espagne du<br />
nord au long du XXème siècle”, Techniques & Culture 31-32: 161-174 (January-December 1998).<br />
9. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Sociocultural Constructions <strong>of</strong> Breastfeeding and Weaning: A Comparative Study <strong>of</strong> French,<br />
Maghrebian, and South-East Asian Women Living in France”, PRAE, Quaderni del Centro Scientifico<br />
Regionale di Prevenzione Sanitaria 1:3. Milan: Aisthesis, 1998.<br />
10. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Laure Marchand-Lucas, “Does Authoritative Knowledge in Infant Nutrition Lead to<br />
Successful Breastfeeding? A Critical Perspective,” in Linda M. Whiteford and Lenore H. Manderson (eds.)<br />
Global Health Policy, Local Realities: <strong>The</strong> Fallacy <strong>of</strong> the Level Playing Field. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner,<br />
2000, pp. 233-263.<br />
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11. Paul Farmer, Fernet Léandre, Joia S. Mukherjee, Marie Sidonise Claude, Patrice Nevil, Mary C. Smith-Fawzi,<br />
Serena P. Koenig, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Mercedes C. Becerra, Jeffrey Sachs, Amir Attaran, Jim Yong Kim, 2001,<br />
“Community-based approaches to HIV treatment in resource-poor settings”, Lancet 358:404-409.<br />
12. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Infectious Disease in Haiti: HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Social<br />
Inequalities”, EMBO Reports 4 (6s):S20-S23; 2003.<br />
13. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Violence structurelle, mondialisation et tuberculose multirésistante”,<br />
Anthropologie et Sociétés 27(2):23-40; 2003.<br />
14. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “El sida y la violencia estructural: La culpabilización de la víctima”,<br />
Cuadernos de Antropología Social 17:31-49; 2003.<br />
15. Jim Y. Kim, Aaron Shakow, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Chris Vanderwarker, and Paul Farmer, “Tuberculosis Control”,<br />
in Richard Smith, Robert Beaglehole, David Woodward and Nick Drager (eds.) Global Public Goods for<br />
Health: Health Economic and Public Health Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 54-72.<br />
16. Paul Farmer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Pearls <strong>of</strong> the Antilles? Public Health in Haiti and Cuba,” in <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong><br />
and Merrill Singer (eds.), Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination. Walnut Creek,<br />
CA: Altamira Press, 2004, pp. 3-28. (Recipient <strong>of</strong> the 2005 Rudolf Virchow Award).<br />
17. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Contracepting at Childbirth: <strong>The</strong> Integration <strong>of</strong> Reproductive Health and Population Policies<br />
in Mexico,” in <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Merrill Singer (eds.), Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological<br />
Examination. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004, pp. 133-144.<br />
18. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “¿Perlas del Caribe? La salud pública en Haití y Cuba,” Revista Colombiana<br />
de Antropología 40:319-352; 2004.<br />
19. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Health and Economic Development”, in Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember<br />
(eds.), Encyclopedia <strong>of</strong> Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures. New York:<br />
Springer, 2004, pp. 164-170.<br />
20. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Understanding and <strong>Address</strong>ing AIDS-Related Stigma: From<br />
Anthropological <strong>The</strong>ory to Clinical Practice in Haiti,” American Journal <strong>of</strong> Public Health 95(1):53-59; 2005.<br />
21. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Adherence to antiretroviral therapy: Merging the clinical and social course <strong>of</strong> AIDS,” PLoS<br />
Medicine 2(12): 1217-1221(e338); 2005.<br />
22. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “El estigma del sida y su evolución social: Una visión desde Haití,” Revista<br />
de Antropología Social 14:127-146; 2005.<br />
23. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “L’anthropologie médicale aux États-Unis”, in Francine Saillant and Serge<br />
Genest (eds.), Anthropologie médicale: ancrages locaux, défis globaux. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval,<br />
2005, pp. 91-112; Paris: Anthropos Economica, 2005.<br />
24. César E. Abadía-Barrero and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Experiences <strong>of</strong> Stigma and Access to HAART in Children and<br />
Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS in Brazil,” Social Science & Medicine 62:1219-1228; 2006.<br />
25. Michael Westerhaus and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “How do Intellectual Property Law and International Trade<br />
Agreements Affect Access to Antiretroviral <strong>The</strong>rapy?” PLoS Medicine 3(8): e332; 2006.<br />
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26. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Ciencias sociales, medicina y salud pública: Un encuentro en torno al sida”, Temas 47:15-21;<br />
2006.<br />
27. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Medical anthropology in the United States,” in Francine Saillant and Serge<br />
Genest (eds.), Medical Anthropology: Regional Perspectives and Shared Concerns. Malden, MA: Blackwell,<br />
2006, pp. 42-57.<br />
28. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Michael Westerhaus, “¿Libertad o monopolio? Patentes, tratados comerciales y acceso a<br />
tratamientos con antirretrovirales,” in Quaderns de l’Institut Català d’Antropologia 22:21-45; 2006.<br />
29. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Michael Westerhaus, “Access to Generic Antiretrovirals: Inequality, Intellectual Property<br />
Law, and International Trade Agreements,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública 23(S1):585-596; 2007.<br />
30. Coeurlida Louis, Louise C. Ivers, Mary C. Smith Fawzi, Kenneth A. Freedberg, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Late<br />
presentation for HIV care in Central Haiti: Factors limiting access to care,” AIDS Care 19(4):487-491; 2007.<br />
31. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Yasmin Khawja, Ida González-Núñez, “Sexuality, reproduction, and HIV in women: <strong>The</strong><br />
impact <strong>of</strong> ART in elective pregnancies in Cuba,” AIDS 21(S5):S49-S54; 2007.<br />
32. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Sexualidad y relaciones de género en la transmisión de VIH: Propuestas de investigación en<br />
el área de la prevención,” in Maria Cristina Álvarez, Esther Leandro, Susan DiGiacomo, Yamina Guidoum<br />
(eds.), Mujer, Sida y Acceso a la Salud en África Subsahariana: Enfoque crítico desde las ciencias sociales.<br />
Barcelona: Medicus Mundi Catalunya, 2007, pp. 88-93.<br />
33. Michael Westerhaus and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Inverting the Killer Commodity Model: Withholding Medicines<br />
from the Poor,” in Merrill Singer and Hans Baer (eds.) Killer Commodities: A Critical Anthropological<br />
Examination <strong>of</strong> Corporate Products and Public Health. Berkeley, CA: Altamira Press (2008).<br />
34. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Yasmin Khawja, and James Johnston, “Social Inequalities and Dengue Transmission in Latin<br />
America,” in Ann Herring and Alan Swedlund (eds.) Plagues, Epidemics, and Ideas. New York, Oxford: Berg<br />
Publishers (expected 2009).<br />
35. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “En estado de buena esperanza: Análisis de la experiencia reproductiva en mujeres con VIH<br />
en Cuba,” in Eduardo L. Menéndez, Jesús Armando Haro and Paul Hersch (eds.) El planteamiento de una<br />
epidemiología sociocultural: Un diálogo en torno a su sentido, métodos y alcances. Buenos Aires: Lugar<br />
(expected 2009).<br />
36. Michael E. Herce, Jacob A. Chapman, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Gabriel García Salyano, Kaveh Khoshnood, “A Role<br />
for Community Health Promoters in Tuberculosis Control in the State <strong>of</strong> Chiapas, Mexico,” Journal <strong>of</strong><br />
Community Health (accepted).<br />
Other peer-reviewed publications<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Le Colostrum”, Médecine et Nutrition 33:6, pp. 247-248 (December 1997).<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, 1999, “Commentary: Increase in caesarean sections may reflect medical control not women’s<br />
choice”, British Medical Journal 319:1401-1402.<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Angela Heimburger and Ana Langer, Iatrogenic Epidemic: How Health Care Pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
Contribute to the High Proportion <strong>of</strong> Cesarean Sections in Mexico. Working Papers on Latin America, Paper<br />
No. 02/03-3. Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University,<br />
2002, 42 pp.<br />
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4. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Sobre el derecho a la salud,” Revista Cubana de Salud Pública 32:1 (2006).<br />
5. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “In and Out: User Fees and Other Unfortunate Events during Hospital Admission and<br />
Discharge,” in Cadernos de Saúde Pública 24(5):1174-1178; 2008.<br />
6. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Prevention <strong>of</strong> Mother-to-Child Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV and Syphilis in Latin America and the<br />
Caribbean,” in Challenges Posed by the HIV Epidemic in Latin America and the Caribbean 2009. Washington,<br />
DC: Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, and UNAIDS, 2009 (in press).<br />
Research Publications without Named Authorship<br />
1. Individual Members <strong>of</strong> the Faculty <strong>of</strong> Harvard University, “Consensus Statement on Antiretroviral Treatment<br />
for AIDS in Poor Countries”, Topics in HIV Medicine 9(2):14-24; 2001.<br />
2. Partners In Health and the World Health Organization (eds.), Global Plan to Stop TB. New York: Partners In<br />
Health, World Health Organization, Open Society Institute, and World Bank, 190 pp, 2002. (Editor and coauthor<br />
<strong>of</strong> all chapters).<br />
3. Althabe F, Belizán JM, Villar J, Alexander S, Bergel E, Ramos S, et al. Mandatory second opinion to reduce<br />
rates <strong>of</strong> unnecessary caesarean sections in Latin America: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Lancet<br />
363:1934-1940; 2004.<br />
Proceedings <strong>of</strong> meetings or other non-peer reviewed research publications<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and J.M. García Jorba: “La transición de la actividad laboral a la jubilación”, in La<br />
prejubilación en España: ¿Un reto para el futuro?, pp. 215-226. Barcelona, Spain: Fundació Caixa de<br />
Pensions, 1990.<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Yasmin Khawja, and Ida González-Núñez, “Giving Birth, Contesting Stigma: Cuban Women<br />
Living with HIV,” A Cautious Hope: HIV/AIDS in Latin America, NACLA Report on the Americas July/August<br />
2008:25-29, 40.<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Barrio Adentro: A Look at the Origins <strong>of</strong> a Social Mission,” in Revista, Harvard Review <strong>of</strong><br />
Latin America 8(1)78-81; Fall 2008.<br />
Reviews, chapters, monographs and editorials<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Miguel Muñoz: “Entrevista a Mary Douglas”, Antropologies, pp. 37-39 (April 1987).<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Nutritional Anthropology in Spain?”, Anthropology Newsletter 32:3, p. 9 (March 1991).<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Alimentación, Cultura, y Grasas: Un proyecto de salud pública nutricional para la población<br />
de La Rioja. Logroño, Spain: Consejería de Salud, Consumo y Bienestar Social, 1991.<br />
4. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Anthropologie, nutrition et santé publique”, Information Diététique 3, pp. 29-32 (November<br />
1992).<br />
5. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Anthropologie, nutrition et santé publique (2)”, Information Diététique 4/1993, pp. 15-18<br />
(December 1993).<br />
6. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and J. MacClancy “Food”, in Maryon McDonald (éd) Towards an Anthropology <strong>of</strong> European<br />
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Union. (Report for the Europena Commission), pp. 15-18. Brussels: European Comission, 1994.<br />
7. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Antropología y prácticas alimentarias”, Hoy 5:29 (July 1995).<br />
8. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Alimentation et culture: Aspects culturels de l’alimentation dans les cinq continents”,<br />
Information Diététique 3/1995, pp. 29-31 (December 1995).<br />
9. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Le regard ethnologique sur l’alimentation des enfants. Paris: ANVIE (Association Nationale<br />
pour la Valorisation Interdisciplinaire de la Recherche en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société auprès des<br />
Entreprises), 1996.<br />
10. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Perceptions des aliments et culture. Paris: ANVIE (Association Nationale pour la Valorisation<br />
Interdisciplinaire de la Recherche en Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société auprès des Entreprises), 1997.<br />
11. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, La Operación Cesárea en México: Un Estudio Cualitativo con Mujeres y Pr<strong>of</strong>esionales de la<br />
Salud. Mexico: <strong>The</strong> Population Council Regional <strong>Office</strong> for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1998.<br />
12. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Hacia una mejor calidad de la atención en salud reproductiva: Autopercepción del riesgo de<br />
infección del tracto reproductivo en usuarias de un servicio de planificación familiar en México. Mexico:<br />
Population Council Regional <strong>Office</strong> for Latin America and the Caribbean, 1999.<br />
13. Francis P. Crawley and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Antiretroviral Interventions to Reduce the Transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV<br />
Infection from Mother-to-Child: Ethical and Social Considerations for Health Care Systems. A UNAIDS<br />
Ethical Review Committee Position Paper. Geneva: UNAIDS, 1999.<br />
14. Claude Bruderlein and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Desk Review <strong>of</strong> Operation Lifeline Sudan Reports: An Internal<br />
Document. New York: United Nations <strong>Office</strong> for the Coordination <strong>of</strong> Humanitarian Affairs, 1999.<br />
15. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Joyce V. Millen, “Interest Group Report: Critical Anthropology <strong>of</strong> Health”, Anthropology<br />
Newsletter, p. 79 (May 2000).<br />
16. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Joyce V. Millen, “Praxis, Policy and the Poor: Critical Ethnography <strong>of</strong> International Health<br />
Policies”, Anthropology Newsletter, p. 61 (January 2001).<br />
17. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Paul Farmer, Karem Harth, Jim Y. Kim, Eduardo Levcovitz, Daniel López-Acuña, Joia S.<br />
Mukherjee, Hernán Rosemberg, Patricia Schroeder, Edwina Yen, <strong>The</strong> Challenge <strong>of</strong> the HIV-AIDS Pandemic<br />
for the Reform and Strengthening <strong>of</strong> Health Systems and Services in Latin America and the Caribbean.<br />
Washington: Pan American Health Organization and Partners In Health, 2002.<br />
18. Lorena Barbería, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Paul Farmer, Carrie Farmer, Renato Gusmao, Jim Y. Kim, Eduardo<br />
Levcovitz, Daniel López-Acuña, Kedar Mate, Patricia Schroeder, Gina Tambini, and Edwina Yen, <strong>The</strong> Impact<br />
<strong>of</strong> Health Systems Reform on the Control and Prevention <strong>of</strong> Infectious Diseases in Latin America and the<br />
Caribbean. Washington: Pan American Health Organization and Partners In Health, 2002.<br />
19. Paul Farmer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Un pilote en Haïti: De l’efficacité de la distribution d’antiviraux dans des<br />
pays pauvres, et des objections qui lui sont faites”, Vacarme 19:17-22; April 2002.<br />
20. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “Anthropologie de la violence: La culpabilisation des victimes”, Notre<br />
Librairie: Revue des Littératures du Sud 148:102-108; 2002.<br />
21. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Paul Farmer, and Lorena Barbería, Control <strong>of</strong> HIV/AIDS in Cuba: A Briefing Memo for<br />
President Carter’s visit to Cuba. Atlanta: Carter Center, 2002.<br />
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22. Paul Farmer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Salud y Derechos Humanos: Una vía para la medicina y la salud pública”, in<br />
Edhuca Salud (ed.) Derechos humanos y salud: Encontrando los lazos. Lima, Peru: Edhuca Salud, 2002, pp.<br />
88-90.<br />
23. Paul Farmer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Castigo a los más pobres de América: El embargo de la ayuda internacional<br />
crea una crisis humanitaria en Haití”, El País, 12 January 2003, pp. 8-9.<br />
24. Paul Farmer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Urgence humanitaire en Haïtí”, Courrier International 640:20-21; 2003.<br />
25. Lorena Barberia and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> (eds.), Seminar on Cuban Health System: Its Evolution, Accomplishments,<br />
and Challenges. Working Papers on Latin America, Paper No. 02/03-4. Cambridge, MA: David Rockefeller<br />
Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, 2003, 52 pp.<br />
26. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Eduardo Levcovitz, Daniel López-Acuña, Joia Mukherjee,<br />
Patricia Schroeder, and Edwina Yen (eds.), Scaling Up Health Systems to Respond to the Challenge <strong>of</strong><br />
HIV/AIDS in Latin America and the Caribbean. Special Edition <strong>of</strong> the Health Sector Reform Initiative in Latin<br />
America and the Caribbean 8. Washington, DC: Pan American Health Organization, 2003, 100 pp.<br />
27. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Sobre Haití”, El País, 6 March 2004.<br />
28. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Paul Farmer”, in Vered Amit (ed.) Biographical Dictionary <strong>of</strong> Social and Cultural<br />
Anthropology. New York: Routledge, 2004, pp. 151-152.<br />
29. Merrill Singer and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Introduction: Anthropology and Health Policy: A Critical Perspective,” in<br />
<strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Merrill Singer (eds.), Unhealthy Health Policy: A Critical Anthropological Examination.<br />
Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 2004, pp. xi-xix.<br />
30. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Anthropologists as Advocates: Power, Suffering and AIDS,” Anthropology News 2004,<br />
45(7), pp. 9 & 11.<br />
31. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “International Public Health Pitfalls and Economic Arguments: <strong>The</strong> Fight<br />
against AIDS in Cuba and Haiti,” in Rethinking “the Public” in Public Health: Neoliberalism, Structural<br />
Violence, and Epidemics <strong>of</strong> Inequality in Latin America. Working Papers <strong>of</strong> the Center for Iberian and Latin<br />
American Studies. San Diego: University <strong>of</strong> California at San Diego, 2004.<br />
32. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “<strong>The</strong> impact <strong>of</strong> comprehensive HIV/AIDS care on stigma and testing:<br />
Learning and experiences from Haiti,” Exchange on HIV/AIDS, Sexuality and Gender 1:30-31; 2005.<br />
33. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “L’impact des traitements complets pour le VIH/SIDA sur les stigmates et le<br />
dépistage: Expériences haïtiennes,” Échange sur le VIH/SIDA, la sexualité et le genre 1 :30-31; 2005.<br />
34. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “O impacto do cuidado abrangente para HIV/SIDA sobre o estigma e a<br />
testagem,” Intercâmbio sobre HIV/SIDA, sexualidade e gênero 1:30-31; 2005.<br />
35. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “El uso de los argumentos económicos para asignar recursos para el SIDA en el Caribe: Los<br />
casos de Haití y Cuba,” in Jens Holt (ed.), Protección Social Universal y Respuesta Integral al VIH/SIDA:<br />
Actuales Desafíos y Perspectivas de los Sistemas de Salud en América Latina y el Caribe. Eschborn, Germany:<br />
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), p. 18; 2005.<br />
36. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “O uso de argumentos econômicos para alocar recursos para a AIDS no Caribe: Os casos do<br />
Haiti e de Cuba,” in Jens Holst (ed.), Proteção Social Universal e Resposta Integral ao HIV/AIDS: Atuais<br />
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Desafios e Perspectivas dos Sistemas de Saúde na América Latina e no Caribe. Eschborn, Germany: Deutsche<br />
Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), p. 18; 2005.<br />
37. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Paul Farmer, “International Public Health Pitfalls and Economic Arguments: <strong>The</strong> Fight<br />
against AIDS in Cuba and Haiti,” MEDICC Review 8(1)26-30; 2006.<br />
38. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Violencia contra la mujer, sexualidad y vivencia del VIH,” Sobre Violência contra as<br />
Mulheres e a Vivência de HIV/AIDS. Recife, Brazil: Instituto Sois, 2008.<br />
39. María Esperanza Martínez, Sarai Vivas, and <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “Social Exclusion Knowledge Network: <strong>The</strong><br />
Case <strong>of</strong> Venezuela,” in WHO Commission on the Social Determinants <strong>of</strong> Health Social Exclusion Knowledge<br />
Network Report. Geneva: World Health Organization (2008).<br />
40. Mario Hernández, Amparo Hernández, Alejandro Perdomo, Oscar Rodríguez, Mauricio Torres, Manuel Vega,<br />
Margarita Petrera, Sandra Vallenas, <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, María Esperanza Martínez, and Sarai Vivas, La<br />
superación de la exclusión social en la región andina de América Latina: debates e implicaciones. Informe<br />
final del Grupo Colombia-Nodo conjunto Regional para América Latina. Geneva: World Health Organization<br />
Social Exclusion Knowledge Network, 2008.<br />
41. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Utpal Sandesara, Integración de la atención prenatal con los procesos de detección y<br />
manejo clínico del VIH y de la sífilis en el Perú. Lima: MINSA, UNAIDS, 2009.<br />
Letters to the Editor<br />
1. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Joia S. Mukherjee, “Focusing on treatment as the formula to prevent mother to child<br />
transmission <strong>of</strong> HIV”, British Medical Journal, electronic letter published on March 13, 2001,<br />
http://bmj.com/cgi/eletters/322/7277/57#EL13.<br />
2. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, 2000, “Why we still have to care about the marketing <strong>of</strong> breastmilk substitutes”, British<br />
Medical Journal, electronic letter published on July 7, 2000,<br />
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/321/7252/8/a#EL4.<br />
3. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong> and Michael Westerhaus, “Intellectual property and access to ART: Authors’ reply,” PLoS<br />
Medicine 3(11): e510; 2006. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030510.<br />
4. <strong>Arachu</strong> <strong>Castro</strong>, “HIV, stigma, and rates <strong>of</strong> infection: But is AIDS-related stigma understood?” PLoS Medicine<br />
4(1): e53; 2007. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0040053.<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Educational Materials or Reports, in print or other media<br />
1988-89 Cultural Anthropology. Course Syllabus for the Section on Nutritional Anthropology. University <strong>of</strong><br />
Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1992 Nutritional Anthropology Course Syllabus. Master <strong>of</strong> Food and Nutritional Sciences, School <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ph</strong>armacy, University <strong>of</strong> Barcelona (Spain).<br />
1993 Streptococcal pharyngitis and rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease prevention for schoolchildren, their<br />
families and teachers. World Health Organization (WHO), International Federation and Society <strong>of</strong><br />
Cardiology (IFSC), and UNESCO. Drafted the booklet in English, French, and Spanish.<br />
1993 Chagas Disease in Latin America. World Health Organization (WHO), International Federation and<br />
Society <strong>of</strong> Cardiology (IFSC), and UNESCO. Drafted the booklet in Spanish.<br />
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1995 Methodologies <strong>of</strong> Nutritional Anthropology Course Syllabus. School <strong>of</strong> Nutrition, Division <strong>of</strong> Medical<br />
Sciences, National University <strong>of</strong> Córdoba (Argentina).<br />
1998 Culture, Health, and Reproduction in Latin America Course Syllabus. <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> International Health,<br />
National School <strong>of</strong> Public Health, Madrid (Spain).<br />
1998-99 Cultura, Salud y Reproducción [Culture, Health, and Reproduction]. Online teaching materials in Spanish<br />
structured around eight topics. Prepared for Harvard School <strong>of</strong> Public Health’s Global Reproductive<br />
Health Forum. URL at: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/Organizations/healthnet/_Spanish/course/.<br />
2000-01 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2001-02 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2001-02 Structural Violence and Social Materiality Syllabus. Collège de France, Paris. (Taught by Paul Farmer).<br />
2001-02 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2002-03 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2002-03 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2003-04 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2003-04 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2004-05 Social Roots <strong>of</strong> Health and Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2004-05 Culture, Poverty, and Infectious Disease Syllabus, Harvard Medical School.<br />
2004-05 AIDS in the Caribbean, Harvard College.<br />
2005-06 AIDS in the Caribbean, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and University <strong>of</strong> Puerto<br />
Rico.<br />
<strong>The</strong>ses<br />
1988 Evaluación del servicio de dietética en un hospital de primer nivel. <strong>The</strong>sis for the pr<strong>of</strong>essional degree in<br />
Dietetics and Nutrition. Polytechnic Institute <strong>of</strong> Barcelona, Spain. Award <strong>of</strong> Final Studies in Dietetics and<br />
Nutrition.<br />
1992 La signification de la frontière dans les pratiques alimentaires de la Cerdagne (Pyrénées Franco-<br />
Espagnoles). <strong>The</strong>sis for the Diplôme d’Études Appr<strong>of</strong>ondies (DEA) in Social Anthropology and Ethnology.<br />
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Paris, France.<br />
1996 Les implications socioculturelles des pratiques alimentaires dans la région de la Rioja (Espagne du Nord).<br />
<strong>Ph</strong>.D. <strong>The</strong>sis in Social Anthropology and Ethnology. École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Paris,<br />
France.<br />
1997 Saber bien: Salud y prácticas alimentarias. <strong>Ph</strong>.D. <strong>The</strong>sis in Sociology. School <strong>of</strong> Economics, University <strong>of</strong><br />
Barcelona, Spain.<br />
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Abstracts, Poster Presentations and Exhibits Presented at Pr<strong>of</strong>essional Meetings in Last Three Years<br />
“Diagnosis and care <strong>of</strong> HIV and syphilis among pregnant women in Colombia,” by A. <strong>Castro</strong>, abstract accepted,<br />
the 17 th International AIDS Conference (August 2008), Mexico City, Mexico. Abstract number CDD0237.<br />
“Understanding sexual risk in Cuban men prior to HIV diagnosis,” by A. <strong>Castro</strong>, K. Mc <strong>Ph</strong>illips, C. Aragonés, J.<br />
Campos, Y. Khawja, J. Pérez, abstract accepted, the 17 th International AIDS Conference (August 2008), Mexico<br />
City, Mexico. Abstract number CDD0318.<br />
Translations<br />
Translation <strong>of</strong> the French and English abstracts into Spanish <strong>of</strong> the journal Social Anthropology, 1991-1997.<br />
Translation from French into Spanish and scientific counseling <strong>of</strong> Dora Cazadora: Un cuento para prevenir la<br />
enfermedad de Chagas, by Gilles Dupont. Paris: WHO/ISFC/UNESCO, 42 pp, 1993.<br />
Technical adaptation and translation into Spanish <strong>of</strong> Food and Nutrition in the Management <strong>of</strong> Group Feeding<br />
Programmes, FAO Food and Nutrition Paper 23, 1993.<br />
Translation <strong>of</strong> the English abstracts into Spanish and French <strong>of</strong> the journal Health and Human Rights, 1998-1999.<br />
Translation into Spanish <strong>of</strong> “Responding to Outbreaks <strong>of</strong> Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Introducing DOTS-<br />
Plus”, by PE Farmer, JY Kim, CD Mitnick, R Timperi.<br />
Translation into Spanish <strong>of</strong> “Rare Occurrence <strong>of</strong> Serious Adverse Effects in Patients Receiving Community-Based<br />
<strong>The</strong>rapy for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis”, by JJ Furin, CD Mitnick, SS Shin, J Bayona, MC Becerra, JM<br />
Singler, F Alcántara, C Castañeda, E Sánchez, J Acha, PE Farmer, JY Kim.<br />
Translation into Spanish <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Challenge <strong>of</strong> the HIV/AIDS Pandemic for the Reform and Strengthening <strong>of</strong> Health<br />
Systems and Services in Latin America and the Caribbean. Washington: Pan American Health Organization, 2002.<br />
Academic editor <strong>of</strong> journal articles<br />
Obermeyer Z, Abbott-Klafter J, Murray JL (2008) Has the DOTS Strategy Improved Case Finding or Treatment<br />
Success? An Empirical Assessment. PLoS ONE 3(3): e11721.<br />
Pacheco AG, Durovni B, Cavalcante SC, Lauria LM, Moore RD, Moulton LH, Chaisson RE, Golub JE. (2008)<br />
AIDS-Related Tuberculosis in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3132.<br />
Ansah EK, Narh-Bana S, Asiamah S, Dzordzordzi V, Biantey K, et al. (2009) Effect <strong>of</strong> Removing Direct Payment<br />
for Health Care on Utilisation and Health Outcomes in Ghanaian Children: A Randomised Controlled Trial. PLoS<br />
Med 6(1): e7.<br />
Mate KS, Bennett B, Mphatswe W, Barker P, Rollins N (2009) Challenges for Routine Health System Data<br />
Management in a Large Public Programme to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in South Africa. PLoS<br />
ONE 4(5).<br />
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