Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology
(The Joint UCB/UCSF Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology)

UCSF Medical Anthropology Program Core Faculty

Vincanne Adams (Associate Professor) Ethnomedicine, medical translation, knowledge, science and power, Buddhism, postcolonial social theory; Nepal, Tibet, Himalayas.

Shelley R. Adler (Assistant Adjunct Professor) Traditional healing and belief systems, decision making in alternative and/or biomedical treatments, women's health and healing across the lifecourse, patient/physician interactions, anthropology, cultural differences, alternative medicine, aging gender.

Judith C. Barker (Associate Professor in Residence) Medical anthropology, research design and methodology, contemporary Oceanic societies, especially Polynesian migrants, cultural construction of dependency, cultural pluralism, and everyday practices with regard to chronic illness.

Gay Becker (Professor in Residence, Institute for Health and Aging) Medical anthropology, interpretations of illness, embodiment, gender, reproductive health and technology, culture of biomedicine, anthropology of aging, transnationality.

Yewoubdar Beyene (Assistant Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health and Aging) Medical anthropology, issues in women's health, fertility, nutrition, human development and aging, menopause, osteoporosis, ethnomedicine, health care beliefs and practices of traditional cultures, health care planning, women and economic development.

Philippe Bourgois (Professor and Chair) Inner-city social suffering, homelessness, substance abuse, HIV prevention, social violence, ethnicity and immigration, ethnographic methods, cultural production, political economy.

Judith Justice (Associate Professor in Residence, Institute for Health Policy Studies) Medical anthropology, health policy, international health and
development, culture of health bureaucracies, maternal and child health, cultural context of infectious diseases (leprosy); South and Southeast Asia, Himalayas (Bhutan and Nepal).

Sharon Kaufman (Professor in Residence, Institute for Health and Aging) Anthropology of aging, medical anthropology, culture of medicine, bioethics.

Christie W. Kiefer (Professor, Psychiatry) Medical anthropology, aging and personality, poverty and health, violence; Japan.

Linda S. Mitteness (Professor in Residence) Cultural construction of chronic illness, aging, culture of biomedicine, research methods, psychological anthropology, research ethics.

Melanie Tervalon (Assistant Clinical Professor and Coordinator of the Culture in the Curriculum Initiative)

Affiliated Anthropologists in Other UCSF Departments, Schools or Institutes

Stephen L. Eyre (Assistant Adjunct Professor, Pediatrics) Ethnography of HIV risk, adolescent gender and sexuality, cognitive anthropology, coping with
HIV illness, cultural construction of illness and dying.

Daniel Halperin (Adjunct Assistant Professor, Community Health Systems)
Jeanie Kayser-Jones (Professor, Physiological Nursing) Medical anthropology, social gerontology, nursing homes, environment and aging, cross-cultural gerontology, nutritional anthropology; contemporary U.S.

Peter Kunstadter (Adjunct Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies) Cultural anthropology, population anthropology, medical anthropology, environmental anthropology, disease.

Juliene G. Lipson (Professor in Residence, MHCAN Nursing) Medical anthropology, community mental health, immigrants and refugees; contemporary US.

Carol McClain (Lecturer, President's office) Comparative medical systems, culture and reproduction, race and ethnicity, cultural studies of science.

Mary-Rose Mueller (Assistant Adjunct Professor, Social and Behavioral Sciences) Professional development and professional work, sociology of health
and illness, social studies of aging, and qualitative methods.

Jessica Muller (Assistant Adjunct Professor, Family & Community Medicine) Culture of biomedicine, gerontology, bioethics, death and care of dying,
professional socialization, medical education, primary health care; North America.

Ronald Stall (Associate Adjunct Professor, Center for AIDS Prevention, Medicine) Anthropology and epidemiology, alcohol and drug use, behavioral
epidemiology of AIDS.

Ph.D. in Anthropology
(Social Cultural / Archaeology)

Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology

Master of Arts in Folklore

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290 Lecture Series
MedAnthro Lecture Series
ARF Brown Bag Lecture Series
Emeritus Lecture Series

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