Community Participatory Involvement: A Sustainable Model for Global Public Health - Softcover

Linda M. Whiteford is a professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida, where she also has served as Vice Provost for Academic Program Development and Review, Associate Vice President for Global Strategies, and Associate Vice President for Strategic Initiatives. Former chair of the Department of Anthropology, she helped develop the USF Patel School of Global Sustainability, the Global Academic Partners Program, the USF Office of Sustainability, USF World, and the USF Office of Community Engagement. She is an internationally recognized researcher, lecturer, and author; a medical anthropologist who has consulted for the World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Pan American Health Organization and advises on global health policy. Her most recent book, Global Health in Times of Violence is coedited with Paul Farmer (Harvard University) and Barbara Rylko-Bauer (Michigan State University).

Cecilia Vindrola-Padros is a research associate in the Department of Applied Health Research at University College London. She currently works as an embedded qualitative researcher in various hospitals in the United Kingdom, designing and implementing evaluations and developing collaborative strategies with clinical teams to address issues affecting health service delivery. Some of her recent publications include: "The Narrated, the Nonnarrated, and the Disnarrated: Conceptual Tools for Analyzing Narratives" (Qualitative Health Research) and "Together, We Can Show You: Using Participant-Generated Visual Data in Collaborative Research" (Collaborative Anthropologies).