The Department of Anthropology will host medical anthropologist Jean Schensul for the third guest lecture of the Anthropology Lecture Series. She will present “Building Complex Collaborative Community Intervention Studies” Monday, March 26, from 5 to 6 p.m. in Mather Memorial Building, Room 201.
The series invites prominent anthropologists from across the world to speak to the community.
Light refreshments will be available.
About the speaker
Schensul is a senior scientist at and founder of the Institute for Community Research, an independent research institute conducting prevention research in communities in the United States, India and China, and based in Hartford, Connecticut.
At the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, a program at Yale University, Schensul is co-director of qualitative methods and ethnography for the Interdisciplinary Research Methods Core, as well as an investigator with the Community Research and Implementation Core.
She is a medical anthropologist with three decades of experience in the conduct of HIV prevention and other health-related research in urban areas of the United States and in developing countries. Her areas of expertise include mixed research methods, drug research, sexuality and HIV and school- and community-based structural approaches to intervention across the lifespan.