Current Work
Susan is currently Dean of the School
of Public Health, and Professor of Community Health Sciences and
Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She was
a Professor of Public Health and Anthropology at the University
of California, Los Angeles, from 1975 to 1994 and Associate Dean
for Academic Programs for the School of Public Health at UCLA from
1988 to 1994. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the
National Academy of Sciences (IOM) and has just finished chairing
an IOM committee, which produced a report on "Speaking of
Health: Communication for Health Behavior Change in Diverse Populations
in the 21st Century."
Work Relevant to Hablamos Juntos
Susan was reared in Guatemala and
has worked in many countries and cities, including Ecuador, Barbados,
Mexico, New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and has consulted
on health programs in many more countries in Latin America, the
Caribbean, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Dr. Scrimshaw has conducted a series
of research projects focusing on fertility and family planning
decision-making, improving pregnancy outcomes, child survival programs,
violence prevention, and culturally appropriate delivery of health
care. She has also written extensively on the combination of quantitative
and qualitative methodologies for research and for program development
and evaluation. She developed (with co-author Elena Hurtado) the
Rapid Anthropological Assessment Procedures (RAP) guidelines for
nutrition and primary health care program planning and evaluation,
which have also been adapted for use with family planning, epilepsy,
infectious diseases, and HIV/AIDS, and have been replicated in
many languages.
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