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César E. Abadía-Barrero is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. His research has demonstrated how for-profit interests transform access, continuity, and quality of health care. He has conducted action-oriented ethnographic and mixed-method research on health-care privatization, health-care policies and programs, human rights judicialization and advocacy, and social movements in health in Brazil and Colombia. Currently, Dr. Abadía-Barrero is examining an intercultural proposal to replace environmental degradation with “buen vivir” (good living) in postpeace accord Colombia. In another project in the United States, he is studying the role of capitalism in dysregulating children’s bodies. He is the author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS, and Social Responses in Brazil (2011) and Health in Ruins: The Capitalist Destruction of Medical Care (Forthcoming).

Elise Andaya (PhD, New York University, 2007) is Associate Professor in Anthropology and Associate of the Center for the Elimination of Minority Health Disparities at the University at Albany (SUNY). She is a cultural medical anthropologist whose prize-winning research examines reproductive health, health-care policy and practice, and health disparities in the United States and Cuba. Her current research examines the race, health inequalities, and time (especially experiences of waiting) in the delivery of prenatal public health care in a New York City safety-net hospital.

Hans A. Baer is Principal Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Utah in 1976. Baer taught at several US colleges and universities both on a regular and on a visiting basis. He was a Fulbright Lecturer at Humboldt University in East Berlin in 1988–1989. In 2004 Baer taught at the Australian National University and has been based at the University of Melbourne since 2006, as a regular academic until December 2013. He has published 25 books and some 220 book chapters and academic articles on a diversity of research topics, including Mormonism, African-American religion, sociopolitical life in East Germany before and after unification, critical health anthropology, medical pluralism in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, the critical anthropology of climate change, Australian climate politics, mobility studies, and the political economy of higher education. Baer’s most recent books include Airplanes, the Environment, and the Human Condition (Routledge, 2020); Grappling with Societies and Institutions in the Era of Socio-Ecological Crisis: Journey of a Radical Anthropologist (Lexington Books, 2020), and Climate Change and Capitalism in Australia: An Eco-Socialist Vision for the Future (Routledge, 2022). He considers himself a scholar-activist and has been involved in a wide array of social movements, including the peace, labor, anti-apartheid, ethnic rights, environment, climate justice, and socialist movements.

Ron Barrett is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College. Conducting field research in India and North America, he has examined the ways that people come to terms with their mortality, ritual healing practices, and the social dynamics of infectious diseases. His dissertation research on mortality-informed stigma and the religious healing of leprosy is the topic of a book, Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death and Healing in Northern India (University of California Press), which received the 2008 Welcome Medal from the Royal Anthropological Institute. Together with George Armelagos, he coauthored An Unnatural History of Emerging Infections, the second edition of which will be published in 2022 as Emerging Infections: The Human Determinants of Pandemic Diseases from Prehistory to the Present (Oxford University Press). Prior to his academic career, Barrett was a registered nurse with clinical experience in hospice, brain injury rehabilitation, and neurointensive care.

Charles L. Briggs is Professor of Anthropology, Co-Director of Medical Anthropology Program, Co-Director of Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, University of California, Berkeley, and the Alan Dundes Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of California, Berkeley. His books include The Wood Carvers of Córdova, New Mexico: Social Dimensions of an Artistic “Revival”; Learning How to Ask: A Sociolinguistic Appraisal of the Role of the Interview in Social Science Research; Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequality (with Richard Bauman); Competence in Performance: The Creativity of Tradition in Mexicano Verbal Art; Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling during a Medical Nightmare (with Clara Mantini-Briggs); Making Health Public: How News Coverage Is Remaking Media, Medicine, and Contemporary Life (with Daniel Hallin); Tell Me Why My Children Died: Rabies, Indigenous Knowledge and Communicative Justice (with Clara Mantini-Briggs); and Unlearning: Rethinking Poetics, Pandemics, and the Politics of Knowledge. He has received such honors as the James Mooney Award, the Chicago Folklore Prize, Edward Sapir Book Prize, the J. I. Staley Prize, the Américo Paredes Prize, the New Millennium Book Award, the Cultural Horizons Prize, the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Lichtenberg-Kolleg, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences, the School for Advanced Research, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is currently President of the Society for Medical Anthropology.

Heide Castañeda is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, borders, migration, migrant health, citizenship, and policing, focusing on the US/Mexico border, United States, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco. She is the author of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford University Press, 2019) and co-editor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (NYU Press, 2018). Her latest book is Migration and Health: Critical Perspectives (Routledge). Dr. Castañeda has also published dozens of research articles on migration and health-care access for immigrant populations. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), and the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

Kitty Corbett is Professor Emerita in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby/Vancouver, Canada. She has expertise in multimethod research, change theories, health communication, knowledge translation, cultural diversity, social marketing, and public health advocacy. She has contributed to public health projects and research addressing local to global health challenges of antibiotic resistance, appropriate pharmaceutical use, HIV and STI prevention, tobacco use, Chagas disease, cancer prevention, and promotion of local and traditional foods. With students, community partners, and colleagues, she has collaborated on and directed projects in the United States, Canada, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mongolia, Russia, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Argentina, and other countries. She has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, in Taiwan and Mexico.

William W. Dressler (PhD Connecticut, 1978) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Alabama. His research interests focus on cognitive culture theory, research methods, and especially the relationship between culture and the individual. Dressler and colleagues have examined these factors in settings as diverse as urban Great Britain, the Southeast United States, the West Indies, Mexico, and Brazil. His recent work emphasizes concepts and methods for examining the health effects of individual efforts to achieve culturally defined goals and aspirations. His research has been funded by both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.

Mounia El Kotni is a medical anthropologist (PhD SUNY Albany, 2016) and postdoctoral researcher at the Cems-EHESS in Paris, France, and Fondation de France Research Fellow (2019–2021). She has been conducting research in Chiapas, Mexico, since 2013 on the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth and on traditional midwives’ rights. More recently, her research has focused on the intersection between reproductive and environmental justice.

Ruth Fitzgerald is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Otago, New Zealand. She researches in the field of medical anthropology with a focus on ideologies of health, the cultural significance of new medical technologies, and moral reasoning and genetic testing with a geographic focus on Aotearoa, New Zealand. She was awarded the Te Rangi Hiroa Medal by the Royal Society of New Zealand for her work in medical anthropology and is currently the general editor of Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. She continues to collaborate with Julie Park and Michael Legge on publications in the everyday ethics of reproductive decision-making and genetic testing and teaches across the graduate and postgraduate programs of Social Anthropology and the First Year Health Sciences program at Otago.

Alan Goodman, professor of biological anthropology at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, teaches and writes on the health and nutritional consequences of political–economic processes including poverty, inequality, and racism. He received his BS and PhD from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, and was a postdoctoral fellow in international nutrition at the National Institute of Nutrition, Mexico, and a research fellow in stress physiology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. He previously served as the Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty and Dean of Natural Sciences at Hampshire and is a past President of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). He codirects the AAA’s public education project on race (understandingrace.org). Goodman has written over one hundred articles and is the editor or author of eight books including Building a New Biocultural Synthesis, Nutritional Anthropology, and Race: Are We So Different? His forthcoming book is Racism, Not Race: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions (with Joseph Graves, 2021, Columbia).

Ashley L. Graham is a PhD candidate at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on the anthropological study of risk, environmental disasters, infectious disease epidemics, vaccines, and global health governance. Graham’s most recent publications address the use of novel vaccines and the risk of coronaviruses in pregnancy, respectively. She also works for The Task Force for Global Health, a global health organization based in Atlanta, GA, where her work centers on global health ethics and cultivating resilience.

Clarence C. Gravlee is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Florida, with affiliate appointments in African American Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, and the Center for the Study of Race and Racism. His research aims to explain and address how systemic racism harms health and corrupts medical research and practice. He is former editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, co-founder (with M. Miaisha Mitchell) of the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT), and co-editor (with H. Russell Bernard) of the Handbook of Methods in Cultural Anthropology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015). His work has appeared in public-facing venues such as Scientific American andSomatosphere, and in a wide range of scholarly journals, including American Anthropologist, American Journal of Public Health, Annual Review of Anthropology, American Journal of Human Biology, Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry, and the International Journal of Social Research Methodology, and more.

Deven Gray is a PhD student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. Gray is a medical anthropologist with a focus on infectious disease, especially concerning mosquito-borne infectious diseases such as Zika virus and dengue fever. He has multiple field seasons of experience in the country of Belize conducting mixed-methods ethnographic and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research on epidemic and pandemic response efforts, researching policies and interventions that influence the management or health consequences of disease. Since 2018, Gray has served as an assistant editor for the applied anthropology journal Human Organization, and recently he has gotten involved with the University of South Florida’s Center for the Advancement of Food Security and Healthy Communities (CAFSHC) to explore the effectiveness of food bank home delivery programs piloted in response to COVID-19.

David Himmelgreen is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Director of the Center for the Advancement of Food Security & Healthy Communities at the University of South Florida. Himmelgreen is a biocultural nutritional anthropologist with expertise in maternal-child nutrition, growth and development, food security, dietary change and health, and community nutrition programming. He has conducted research in Costa Rica, Lesotho, India, Puerto Rico, and the United States. He served as Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 2014 to 2021. Since 2015, he has been involved in multiple projects addressing food insecurity in Tampa Bay. Himmelgreen is currently conducting research on a food prescription program, college student food insecurity, and diabetes self-management during COVID-19. He has over 100 publications and has received funding from NSF, USDA, Fulbright Commission, state agencies, and private and corporate foundations for research and programs aimed at reducing food insecurity and improving health.

Craig R. Janes is Professor and Director of the School of Public Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. His current work focuses on the intersections of anthropogenic environmental change and global health systems, including a countrywide study of the impact of climate change on the livelihoods and health of Mongolian pastoralists, assessments of the public health consequences of global resource extraction in Mongolia and Zambia, and a coupled social-ecological systems approach to identifying and mitigating the impacts of flooding regimes on the access to essential health services in western Zambia. He has also investigated the effects of globalized health systems reform programs on indigenous health systems, access to health services, and maternal health outcomes. In addition to his work in Mongolia and Zambia, he has conducted research in the United States, the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, Argentina, and Samoa. He is a past Board Chair and National Coordinator of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research, a Fellow of the Balsillie School for International Affairs in Waterloo, and with his colleagues in Zambia codirects the Zambezi Ecohealth Partnership.

Thomas Leatherman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a biocultural anthropologist whose work adresses social change, inequalities, and health in Latin America and the U.S.. Work in the Yucatan of Mexico has focused on the social, nutritional and health impacts of the rapid growth of tourism-based economies, and the “coca-colonization” of diets in the Yucatan. Long term research in the southern Peruvian Andes focused on the co-constitutive nature of poverty, inequality and illness, and the links between structural violence and the political violence manifested in a 20 year civil war (1980-2000). Recent work and interests are on shifts in regional economies, food security and health in a post-conflict Peru. He co-edited Medical Pluralism in the Andes with Joan Koss and Christine Greenway (2004), and Building a Biocultural Synthesis: Political Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology (1998) with Alan Goodman; part of a long term theoretical interest in developing and expanding a more critical biocultural anthropology.

Jennifer Liu is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, and cross-appointed in the School of Public Health and Health Systems, at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. Her work intersects with science and technology studies (STS) and global health. Her studies include ethnographic analyses of stem cell research and genetics in relation to identity, ethics, and governance in Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. More recently her work focuses on food and water security, gender, and health data use in rural Zambia. Other projects include industrial water pollution and water governance in Bangladesh, women in engineering in Canada, and HIV medication adherence in San Francisco. She serves as Co-convener of the Global Health Research Cluster at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and as a Board member of the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research.

Lenore Manderson is Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Medical Anthropology in the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her work is concerned with inequality, the social context of infectious and chronic diseases in Australia, Southeast and East Asia, and Africa, and increasingly, the environment. She has published some 750 books, articles, book chapters, and reports in these and other areas, including Surface Tensions (2011), Connected Lives (edited with Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, 2020), and Viral Loads (edited with Nancy J. Burke and Ayo Wahlberg, 2021). She was awarded the Society of Medical Anthropology Career Achievement Award in 2016, and in January 2020, she was admitted as a Member of the Order of Australia.

Emily Mendenhall, PhD, MPH, is Medical Anthropologist and Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She has published widely at the boundaries of anthropology, psychology, medicine, and public health and is the inaugural co-editor-in-chief of Social Science and Medicine—Mental Health. Dr. Mendenhall led a Series of articles on Syndemics in The Lancet; and she has published several books, including Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV (2019), Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women (2012), and Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives (2015). In 2017, Dr. Mendenhall was awarded the George Foster Award for Practicing Medical Anthropology by the Society for Medical Anthropology. Her newest book is Unmasked: COVID, Control, and the Case of Okoboji.

Mark Nichter is Regents Professor emeritus and former coordinator of the Graduate Medical Anthropology Training Program at the University of Arizona. He holds a Doctorate degree in Anthropology as well as a master’s degree in public health, and postdoctorate training in cultural psychiatry and clinical anthropology. Mark holds joint appointments in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine and the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. One of his many areas of research is drug use, abuse, and harm reduction; the etiology and expression of dependency; and how drugs are used to manage time, respond to labor demands, enhance pleasure, establish identity, and negotiate social relations.

Charlotte A. Noble is Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. She holds a doctoral degree in applied anthropology and a master of public health from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include food security, nutrition, and the experiences of people living with HIV. She has conducted research in Haiti, Costa Rica, Lesotho, and the United States. She has also served as program coordinator for two federally funded projects: The Teen Outreach Program Replication Project and the University of South Florida Maternal and Child Health Pipeline Training Program.

J. Bryan Page is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Miami. He has secondary appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry and Sociology at that institution. He has conducted transdisciplinary research on the consequences of drug use for nearly 50 years. His focus on drug using behavior has relied on ethnographic, first-hand views in the users’ natural habitats, whether on the streets of San Jose, Costa Rica, the shooting galleries of Miami and Valencia, or the villages of the Seminole reservations. The perspectives gained from this kind of research have made possible the designing of laboratory experiments to establish the parameters of decontamination for injection paraphernalia and the implementation of interventions for preventing the spread of HIV infection among injecting drug users.

Julie Park is Professor Emerita of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research interests in medical anthropology have included emphases on inequality, gender and applied community health, with a geographic focus on Aotearoa New Zealand, and parts of Polynesia. Genetic conditions, infectious diseases, and well-being have featured in her recent work, published with members of her research teams: Haemophilia in Aotearoa New Zealand: More than a Bleeding Nuisance (Routledge 2019, 2020), “Towards Indigenous Policy and Practice: A Tuvaluan Framework for Wellbeing, Ola Lei” (Journal of the Polynesian Society, 2021) and “The Predicament of d/Deaf: Towards an Anthropology of Non-Disability” (Human Organization, 2015). She continues her collaboration with Ruth Fitzgerald and Michael Legge on publications on everyday ethics in the context of reproductive technologies and genetic conditions and with Judith Littleton on publications from their research on tuberculosis in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, and Tuvalu.

Marsha Quinlan is Medical Anthropologist in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University. She concentrates on ethnomedicine and ethnobiology, including ethnozoology, ethnobotany, and health behavior in families. Prominent themes in her research are the cultural shaping of health and medicine (risks and treatment); cultural influence on individuals’ contact with plants and animals; and, the effects of human–plant or human–animal interactions on health and medicine. She has worked in North and South America, East Africa, and has especially worked in the Caribbean country of Dominica since 1993. She also conducts cross-cultural ethnology on topics related to her fieldwork-based research.

Gilbert Quintero is Professor in the School of Public and Community Health Sciences at the University of Montana. His research foci include examination of sociocultural aspects of drug use in several different populations in the United States, including American Indians, Hispanics, and young adult college students. His current interests include the integration of information and communication technologies into social interactions and drug-use practices among young adults in collegiate environments and the nonmedical use of pharmaceuticals.

Nancy Romero-Daza is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. As a medical anthropologist she has extensive experience conducting community-based research, designing and evaluating health-related interventions, and overseeing the delivery of social services to diverse populations. She has conducted research and program evaluation on HIV/AIDS, harm reduction, drug use, chronic disease management, food security, and health of minority populations. Other areas of interest include sexual and reproductive health and ethics of research. She has worked in the United States, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Costa Rica, and Lesotho.

Barbara Rylko-Bauer is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Michigan State University. Her writing has focused on health-care inequalities, structural violence, applied anthropology, political violence, and medicine in the Holocaust. She has served as Book Review Editor for Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Her recent publications include chapters in The Sage Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine (2nd edition) and The Oxford Handbook of the Social Science of Poverty, The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis (with Merrill Singer, in Open Anthropological Research, 2020), Global Health in Times of Violence (co-edited with Linda Whiteford and Paul Farmer, 2009), and A Polish Doctor in the Nazi Camps (2014).

Eleanor Shoreman-Ouimet is Assistant Professor of Human and Environment Interactions at the University of Connecticut whose research and teaching focuses on human–environment interactions, environmental justice, cross-cultural conservation practices, community response to natural hazards and the effects of climate change, and the links between culture, history, environmental ethics, and resource management. Shoreman-Ouimet’s recent publications have addressed anthropological approaches to the study of environmental repair, the influence of anthropocentrism in the social sciences, and facilitating cooperative efforts between anthropologists and conservation groups. In addition to teaching and researching issues pertaining to environment, Shoreman-Ouimet is also involved in research and teaching initiatives focused on increasing diversity, equity, and inclusion in the University setting, specifically studying the prevalence of racial microaggressions on university campuses.

Sandy Smith-Nonini, PhD, is a research assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her work has focused on the intersection of medical anthropology and political economy – including projects on health systems, resurgent infectious disease epidemics, working conditions of US migrant labor, and the relationship of oil dependence and debt to energy poverty. She authored Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador’s Popular Struggle for Health Rights – From Civil War to Neoliberal Peace, (Rutgers University Press, 2010), aided by a Richard Carley Hunt Award from the Wenner Gren Foundation. Sandy recently produced Dis.em.POWER.ed: Puerto Rico’s Perfect Storm, a film on the “fossil colonial” origins of the longest US blackout: www.disempoweredfilm.com.

Merrill Singer is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Singer’s work has focused on infectious disease (including COVID-19), syndemics, and environmental health. He is the author of 34 books, and over 220 peer-reviewed articles. Social justice, the social determinants of health, climate change, and critical medical anthropology have been enduring themes of his research and applied work. His most recent books are titled Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming (Routledge, 2018) and EcoCrises Interaction: Human Health and the Changing Environment (Wiley, 2021).

Elisa (E. J.) Sobo is Professor and Chair of Anthropology at San Diego State University. Recent projects concern the intersection between health and education, vaccination choice, cannabis use for children with intractable epilepsy, and conspiratorial thinking. Sobo is currently part of the CommuniVax coalition, a nationwide participatory action research initiative focused on community-based capacity building for an equitable and effective COVID-19 vaccination rollout. Past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology, and current Section Assembly Convener for the American Anthropological Association, Sobo has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored, coauthored, and coedited 13 books—including second editions of both Dynamics of Human Biocultural Diversity: A Unified Approach and The Cultural Context of Health, Illness, and Medicine. Her work has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and by The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other news outlets.

Patricia K. Townsend holds a courtesy appointment as Research Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, the University at Buffalo. She is author of multiple editions of two widely used college textbooks, Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (with Ann McElroy) and Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policy. ​ She has done fieldwork in lowland Papua, New Guinea, and Peru and at toxic waste sites in the United States. She has done applied work with refugees and religious groups in the United States and maternal and child health services in Papua, New Guinea. In retirement, she has turned to environmental activism at a nuclear waste site, serving on the West Valley Citizen Task Force.

Robert T. Trotter, II, began publishing applied oriented cross-cultural research in the fields of culturally competent health-care delivery and culturally sensitive approaches to substance use and misuse and in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas in 1976, based on research on culturally influenced communication on patient interactions and substance abuse prevention processes (including information from traditional healers on the US Mexico border), as well as cross-cultural comparisons of alcohol use among Hispanic and Anglo college students. In the 1980s his research focus included institutionally oriented research on migrant health and cross-cultural health-care systems, and in the 1990s evolved into research on the confluence of substance abuse and the pandemic spread of HIV, with a focus on prevention research in a multicultural context, including a special focus on social structure, social determinants of health, and cultural applicability design for institutional change, including institutional change in corporate cultures. Subsequent research, in the 2000s to present, has focused on both domestic and international research associated with NIH, the Surgeon General’s office (RARE: Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation), CDC (I-RARE), and WHO (International Classification of Disabilities). Dr. Trotter’s current applied research includes prevention and intervention–oriented research focused on the confluence of criminal justice conditions, converging comorbidities, and substance abuse, and on the interaction of the social determinants of health and infectious disease transmission (including sociocultural approaches combined with cutting-edge genomic studies), in both general populations and in institutional (hospital) populations. Dr. Trotter’s applied oriented research includes involvement as P.I. on NIH RO1s, U01s, T-32s, as well as other roles (Co-PI, mPI, Investigator, Evaluator) on NIH U54s, R01s, U01s, as well as funding for CDC and WHO projects. Dr. Trotter has served as an ad hoc and regular member of NIH study sections for NIDA, NIMHD, NIMH, and CDC. Dr. Trotter currently serves as Lead Core Director for the Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) for the NAU Southwest Health Equities Research Collaborative (SHERC) (NIMHD U54MD012388), as well as a Senior Scientist for the NAU Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Both roles are focused on mentoring early career investigators in relation to both qualitative and quantitative methods, technology, and research design.

E. Christian Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Brownfields Research & Redevelopment at the University of South Florida, where he served previously as the Founding Director of the Office of Sustainability and as Deputy Director of the Patel School of Global Sustainability. Dr. Wells is an applied environmental anthropologist committed to improving human and environmental health outcomes of re/development efforts in marginalized communities. With support from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, his research examines water and sanitation infrastructure transitions in underserved communities in the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Wells is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the recipient of the Sierra Club’s Black Bear Award in recognition of outstanding dedication to sustainability and the environment. He currently serves as President of the Florida Brownfields Association, the state’s largest nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to improving public health through environmental justice.

Linda M. Whiteford, PhD, MPH, is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of South Florida where she was Associate Vice President for Global Strategies, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, and Vice Provost. Dr. Whiteford was also the Founding Co-Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Social Marketing and Social Justice at USF. She is past President of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the 2018 recipient of the Sol Tax Award for contributions to applied anthropology. Her research focuses on translating anthropological research into global health policies and practices, particularly concerning infectious and contagious water-related diseases. Dr. Whiteford’s research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, and she consults for the World Bank and The US Agency for International Development. Significant publications include Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution; Anthropological Ethics for Research and Practice; Globalization, Water and Health: Resources in Times of Scarcity; and Global Health in Times of Violence.