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Helena B. Hansen
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New York, NY 10003
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updated February 6, 2016
Academic Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Psychiatry, New York University (2011-present)
Research Psychiatrist, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York State
Office of Mental Health (2011-present)
Education:
2009-2011
2009-2011
2005-2009
2005
1992
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholar, Columbia University
Addiction Psychiatry Fellow, New York University Medical Center
Psychiatry Residency Training Program, New York University Medical Center
Yale University, M.D., Ph.D. Medicine and Anthropology
Harvard University, A.B. cum laude, Biology
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
In press Mendoza S, Rivera A and Hansen H: “The prescription opioid ‘crisis’ among middle class
white Americans” Transcultural Psychiatry
In press Reich A, Hansen H and B Link: “Fundamental Interventions: How Physicians Can Address
Fundamental Causes of Disease.” Bioethical Inquiry
In press Angoff N, Duncan L, Roxas N, Hansen H: “Power Day: Addressing the Use and Abuse of
Power in Medical Training.” Bioethical Inquiry
In press Polydouro S, Ross S, Duncan L, Coleman P, Hansen H: “Integrating Buprenorphine into an
Opioid Treatment Program: Tailoring Care for Patients with Opioid Use Disorders.” Psychiatric
Services
2015 Hansen H: Pharmaceutical Prosthesis and White Racial Rescue in the Prescription Opioid
“Epidemic.” Somatosphere December 14
http://somatosphere.net/2015/12/pharmaceutical-prosthesis-and-white-racial-rescue-in-theprescription-opioid-epidemic.html
2015 J Netherland and H Hansen: “White Opioids: Pharmaceutical Race and the War on Drugs that
Wasn’t.” BioSocieties advance online publication, doi:10.1057/biosoc.2015.
2015 Duncan L, Mendoza S, Hansen H: “Buprenorphine Maintenance for Opioid Dependence in
Public Sector Healthcare: Benefits and Barriers.” Journal of Addiction Medicine and Therapeutic
Science 1(1): 031-036.
2015 Lopez LM, de Saxe Zerden L, Bourgois P, Hansen H, Abadie R, Dobrowski K, and R Curtis:
“HIV/AIDS in Puerto Rican People Who Inject Drugs: Policy Considerations.” American Journal of
Public Health 105(1):e3
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2014 Hansen H, Bourgois P, and E Drucker: “Pathologizing Poverty: New Forms of Disability,
Diagnosis and Stigma under Welfare Reform.” Social Science and Medicine 103:126-33
2014 Metzl J and H Hansen: “Structural Competency: Theorizing a New Medical Engagement with
Stigma and Inequality.” Social Science and Medicine 103:76-83
2014 McClure B, Mendoza S, Duncan L, Rotrosen J, and H Hansen: “Effects of Regulation on
Methadone and Buprenorphine Provision in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy.” Journal of Urban Health
91(5):999-1008
2013 Hansen H: “Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health” (Book
Review) American Ethnologist 40(4):798-799
2013 Hansen H: “Weighing the Evidence: Risks and Benefits of Participatory Ethnography in
Corporatized Clinical Care.” Social Science and Medicine 99:194-200
2013 Hansen H, Lindemann D, Holmes S “Ethnography of Health for Social Change: Impact on
Public Perception and Policy.” Social Science and Medicine 99:116-8
2013 Martin E, Litchfield G, Mandefro M, Parvez F, Holmes S, Lindemann D, and H Hansen:
“Enhancing the Public Impact of Ethnography.” Social Science and Medicine 99:205-8
2013 Hansen H, Donaldson Z, Bates L, Bearman P, Keely Cheslak-Postava K, Harper K, Holmes S,
Link B, Lovasi G, Springer K, and J Teitler: “Integrating Biosocial Models into Revisions of the
DSM: Need for Population Health Findings to Guide Psychiatric Research and Diagnosis.” Health
Affairs 32(5):984-93
2013 Hansen H, Siegel C, Bertollo D, Case B, DiRocco D, and M Galanter: “Variation in Use of
Buprenorphine and Methadone Treatment by Racial, Ethnic and Income Characteristics of Residential
Social Areas in New York City.” Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research 40(3):367-77
2013 Hansen H, Dugan T, Becker A, Lewis-Fernandez R, Lu F, Oquendo M, Alarcon R, and M
Trujillo: “Educating Psychiatry Residents about Cultural Aspects of Care: A Qualitative Study of US
Residency Faculty.” Academic Psychiatry 37(6):412-6
2013 Lewis-Fernandez R, Raggio G, Gorritz M, Duan N, Marcus S, Cabassa L, Humensky J, Becker
A, Alarcon R, Oquendo M, Hansen H, Like R, Weiss M, Desai P, Primm A, Lu F, Kopelowicz A,
Hinton L, and D Hinton: “GAP-REACH: A Checklist to Assess Comprehensive Reporting of Race,
Ethnicity, and Culture in Psychiatric Publications.” Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases
201(10):860-71
2012 Hansen H and Skinner M.: “From White Bullets to Black Markets and Greened Medicine: The
Neuroeconomics and Neuroracial Politics of Opioid Pharmaceuticals.” Annals of Anthropological
Practice 36(1):167-182
2012 Hansen H and S Roberts: “Two Tiers of Biomedicalization: Buprenorphine, Methadone and the
Biopolitics of Addiction Stigma and Race.” Advances in Medical Sociology 14:79-102
2011 Hansen H: “The ‘New Masculinity’: Addiction Treatment as a Reconstruction of Gender in
Puerto Rican Evangelist Street Ministries.” Social Science and Medicine 74(11):1721-8
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2010 Barry D, Irwin K, Jones E, Becker W, Tetrault J, Sullivan L, Hansen H, O’Connor P,
Schottenfeld R, and D Fiellin: “Opioids, Chronic Pain, and Addiction in Primary Care.” Journal of
Pain 11(12):1442-50
2009 Barry D, Irwin K, Jones E, Becker W, Tetrault J, Sulllivan L, Hansen H, O’Connor P,
Schottenfeld, R, and D Fiellin: “Integrating Buprenorphine Treatment into Office-Based Practice: A
Qualitative Study.” Journal of General Internal Medicine 24(2):218-25
2009 Alarcón RD, Becker AE, Lewis-Fernández R, Like RC, Desai P, Foulks E, Gonzales J, Hansen
H, Kopelowicz A, Lu FG, Oquendo MA, Primm A; Cultural Psychiatry Committee of the Group for
the Advancement of Psychiatry “Issues for DSM-V: The role of culture in psychiatric diagnosis.”
Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases 2009 Aug;197(8):559-660
2008 Hansen H: “Bipolar Disorder as Culture Bound Syndrome: A Book Review.” American
Journal of Psychiatry, Resident’s Edition, 165(10):A44-5
2006 Alegria M, Page JB, Hansen H, Cauce AM, Robles R. Blanco C, Cortes DE, Amaro H,
Morales A, Berry P: "Improving drug treatment services for Hispanics: research gaps and scientific
opportunities." Drug and Alcohol Dependence 84 Suppl 1:S76-84.
2006 Reisman AB, Hansen H, Rastegar, A. 2006 "The craft of writing: a physician-writer's
workshop for resident physicians." Journal of General Internal Medicine 21(10):1109-11.
2005 Hansen H: "Isla Evangelista-a Story of Church and State: Puerto Rico's
Faith-Based Initiatives." Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 29(4):433-56.
2004 Hansen H: “Faith-Based Treatment for Addiction in Puerto Rico.” JAMA (Journal of the
American Medical Association) 291(23):2882.
2004 Hansen H, Alegría M, Peña M, et al.: “Drug Treatment, Health and Social Service Utilization
by Substance Abusing Women from a Community-Based Sample.” Medical Care 42(11):1117-1124.
2003 Hansen H and N Groce: “Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Quarantine in Cuba.” JAMA
(Journal of the American Medical Association) 290(21):2875.
2002 Hansen H, Lopez-Iftikhar M, and Alegria M: “Economy of Risk and Respect: Accounts of HIV
Risk Taking among Puerto Rican Sex Workers.” Journal of Sex Research 39(4):292-301.
2001 Hansen H and Groce N: “From Quarantine to Condoms: Shifting Policies and Problems of HIV
Control in Cuba.” Medical Anthropology 19:259-292.
Book Chapters and Other Publications:
In press Siegel C, Haugland G, and H Hansen: “Cultural Competence in the Organization and
Delivery of Care.” In Kaplan and Sadock’s Synopsis of Psychiatry. Benjamin Sadock and Virginia
Sadock, Eds, New York, Wolters Kluwer publishers.
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2014 Hansen H and Netherland J: “Heroin and Painkiller Deaths Require Public Health Policies.”
(Op-Ed) Huffington Post February 15, 2014
2012 Hansen H: “Pharmaceutical Evangelism and Spiritual Capital: Two Communities of Addicted
Selves.” In Addiction Trajectories. Rakhiel and Garriott, Eds. Duke University Press
2003 Alegria M, Page B, Hansen H, Cauce AM, Robles R, Blanco C, Cortes D, Amaro H, Morales
A, and P Berry: “Improving Dug Treatment Services for Hispanics.” National Strategic Plan on
Hispanic Drug Abuse Research. National Hispanic Science Network and Institute on Urban Health
Research, Boston.
2001 Rebhun LA and Hansen H: “Rural Drug Use.” In Handbook of Rural Health, S. Loue and B.
Quill, Eds., Kluwer Academic Press, New York.
Under review:
Hansen H: Addicted to Christ: Spiritual Capital and Masculinity in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Street
Ministries. (Book manuscript) at University of California Press
Hansen H and Netherland J: “White Opioids: Jim Crow Pharmaceuticals and the War on Drugs that
Wasn’t” in Challenging Punishment: Rethinking Race in the War on Drugs (Murch Ed.) at Columbia
University Press
Gupta V, Duncan L, Mendoza S, Hansen, H and R Swift: “Merging Outpatient Addiction and Opioid
Maintenance Programs During A Disaster: Lessons From Hurricane Sandy.” Journal of Healthcare for
the Poor and Underserved
Grants:
2014
Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research ($329,000)
2013
Burche Minority Leadership Development Award, Kaiser Permanente Foundation
Institute for Alternative Futures ($10,000)
National Institutes of Health K01 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award ($908,260)
Andrew Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar for the Comparative Study of Cultures ($150,000)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Project Grant for Working Group and Conference on
Ethnography and Policy, Columbia University ($18,700)
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Seed Grant for Visual Documentary “Clinical Trials: Race,
Class and Addiction Pharmaceuticals” ($20,000)
American Psychiatric Association/SAMHSA Fellowship ($37,000)
2012
2012
2010
2010
2007
Pre-Doctoral Training Support:
1996 – 2005 NIH Medical Scientist Training Program, Yale University
2002 Yale Council on Latin American Studies Research Fellowship
2001 John Perry Miller Fund Research Fellowship, Yale University
2000 Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
2000 Yale Center for International and Area Studies Fellowship
1999 Williams Fund Pre-Dissertation Field Research Fellowship
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Awards and Fellowships:
2010 American Association of Directors of Residency Training Model Curriculum Award
2008 Social Science Research Council/Columbia University Press IDRF Book Fellowship Award
2007 National Institutes of Mental Health Outstanding Resident Award
2006 Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry Ginsberg Fellowship
2006 American Psychiatric Association Research Colloquium Fellowship
2006 APA Annual Meeting APIRE Fellowship
2005 Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture John Spiegel Award for Best Research Paper
2005 Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society
2005 Miriam Kathleen Dasey Award for academic achievement and integrity, Yale University
2005 Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Citation, Yale University
2005 American Psychiatric Association Minority Fellow
2004 Certificate of Commendation, American Association of Women Psychiatrists
2003 Special Recognition, Student Paper Competition, American Ethnological Society
1998 Fellow, NIDA Training Program, Substance Abuse Research among Hispanics/Latinos,
University of Texas San Antonio
1996 Cromwell Fellowship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, Yale University Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences
1995 Special Merit Scholarship, Yale University School of Medicine
1995 Endowment Scholarship, Yale University School of Medicine
1995 National Medical Fellowship, National Medical Association
Selected Presentations:
2015 Workshop Speaker “Pentecostal Addiction Ministries in Puerto Rico.” American Academy of
Addiction Psychiatry, Irvine, CA
2015 Panel Speaker “Drug Race: Segmented Marketing and Development of Pharmaceuticals.”
American Anthropological Association, Denver, CO
2015 Invited Speaker “Entitlements and the Entitled: Addiction-As-Disability and White Privilege in
the Prescription Opioid ‘Epidemic.’” Black Biopolitics Seminar, Princeton, NJ
2015 Invited Speaker “The War on Drugs that Wasn’t: Race, Stigma and Addiction
Pharmaceuticals.” Global Health Colloquium, Princeton, NJ
2015 Invited Speaker “Structural Competency: New Medicine for the Inequalities that are Making
Us Sick.” Mt Sinai School of Medicine Social Justice Seminar, NY, NY
2015 Invited Speaker “Entitlements and the Entitled: Addiction-As-Disability and Biostratification.”
UCSF Department of the Anthropology and History of Medicine Culpepper Seminar, San Francisco,
CA
2015 Invited Speaker “The War on Drugs that Wasn’t: Narcotic Apartheid in the Prescription Opioid
‘Epidemic.’” UCSF Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, San Francisco, CA
2015 Invited Speaker “Structural Competency: Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Mental
Health Care.” UCSF Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, San Francisco, CA
2015 Invited Speaker “From Structural Violence to Structural Competency: Clinicians in Trauma
and Global Mental Health Work.” Columbia University Summer Institute on Trauma, Resilience and
Global Mental Health
2015 Invited Speaker “Managing the Fix: Visual Social Science to Mobilize Against Addiction
Treatment Disparities.” Columbia University Oral History Project Summer Institute
2015 Invited Speaker “The Role of Clinical Practitioners in Community and Institutional Promotion
of Mental Health and Addiction Treatment: Toward Structural Competency.” National Research
Council, Washington, DC
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2015 Panel speaker: “The Wounded Healer Inside and Outside of Biomedicine - Compassion as
Identity Politics?” Society for Psychological Anthropology Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2015 Invited Speaker: “Structural Competency: Addressing Social Determinants of Health in Mental
Health Care.” Yale University Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
2015 Invited Speaker: “MD-Ph.D.s and Curriculum Reform for Social Medicine and Cultural Issues
in Health.” National Conference for Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences and Humanities,
University of Pennsylvania
2015 Invited Speaker: “Managing the Fix: A Film-In-Progress About Pharmacotherapies for
Addiction.” Yale University Working Group on Psychiatry and Culture in Historical Perspective
2014 Panel Speaker “Biologizing Addiction: Video as Public and Professional Deliberation.”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC
2014 Invited Discussant “Uncanny Crossovers: Secular and Protestant Hauntings in Psycho-Medical
Knowledge.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
2014 Invited Speaker “Of Faith and Pharmaceuticals: De-Addicting the Self as Collective Practice.”
Anthropology and Mental Health Interest Group, Washington, DC
2014 Invited Speaker “Structural Competency: New Medicine for the Inequalities that are Making
Us Sick.” Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Social Justice Seminar, New York City
2014 Invited Speaker “Faith Based Treatment of Addiction: Pentecostal Street Ministries in Puerto
Rico.” Columbia University Addiction Seminar, New York City
2014 Invited Speaker “Faith Based Treatment of Addiction: Pentecostal Street Ministries in Puerto
Rico.” NYU Divisional Grand Rounds, Alcohol and Substance Abuse, New York City
2014 Invited Speaker “How Cultures of Medication are Made: Production of Race, Ethnicity and
Class in Pharmaceutical Marketing.” Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award Program
Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, Indiana
2014 Invited Expert Panel Member “Opiate Dependence in New York: Expanding Prevention and
Treatment.” New York State Assembly Hearing, New York City
2014 Session Chair “Recovery in Mental Health Care.” American Psychiatric Association Annual
Meeting, New York City
2014 Roundtable Organizer “Global Mental Health.” American Psychiatric Association Annual
Meeting, New York City
2014 Invited Lecture “Structural Competency for Psychiatrists.” Columbia University Public
Psychiatry Fellowship Seminar, New York City
2014 Invited Lecture “Social Structural Determinants of Mental Health.” New York City Department
of Health and Mental Health 2014 Disparities Summit, New York City
2014 Invited Lecture “Biologizing Addiction: Race, Class and Pharmaceuticals.” Rutgers Institute
for Health, New Brunswick
2014 Invited Lecture “Structural Competency.” Columbia University Child Psychiatry Fellowship
2013 Invited Roundtable Discussant, “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections On Public
Engagement In The Anthropology Of Alcohol, Drugs, And Tobacco.” American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago
2013 Invited Discussant, “Physician-anthropologists: Hybrid Engagements At The Intersection Of
Medicine And Cultural Analysis.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
Chicago
2013 Invited Discussant “Critical Perspectives on Psychiatry and Hopeful New Pathways:
Contributions from Europe, Australia and the US.” Institute for Psychiatric Services Annual
Meeting, Philadelphia
2013 Invited Panelist “Structural Competency in Mental Health Training.” Institute for Psychiatric
Services Annual Meeting, Philadelphia
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2011
Panel Presenter “Social Engineering of Addiction Pharmaceuticals.” Society for the Social
Study of Science Annual Meeting, San Diego
Invited Lecture “White Opioids: The War on Drugs that Wasn’t.” Challenging Punishment
Conference, Columbia University
Invited Lecture “Race, Class and Prescription Opioid Policy.” War on Drugs Working Group,
Rutgers University
Invited Lecture “From Social Determinants to Structural Intervention: A Challenge to the
Clinic.” University of Texas Austin Medical School Planning Group on Addressing
Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities, Austin
Invited Lecture “Structural Competency.” Health Leads, New York City
Panel Presenter “Structural Stigma and Pharmaceutical Marketing.” American Sociological
Association, New York
Workshop Organizer and Presenter: “Structural Competency.” NYU Department of Psychiatry
Discussant, Presidential Symposium “Envisioning a New Psychiatry.” American Psychiatric
Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Invited Lecture “The Future of Critical Psychiatry.” U.C. Berkeley Department of
Anthropology
Invited Lecture “Explaining the Pharmaceuticalization of Addiction Treatment.” Anthropology
of Global Public Mental Health Meeting, Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University
Invited Lecture “Structural Competency and Global Health.” Global Mental Health Seminar
Series, Yale University
Grand Rounds Lecturer “Biologizing Addiction: Race and Pharmaceutical Markets.”
University of Washington Department of Psychiatry
Invited Lecture “White Opioids: The War on Drugs that Wasn’t.” Cultural Psychiatry Interest
Group, University of Washington Department of Anthropology
Invited Lecture “Forging a Path with a Dual Degree in Medicine and Social Science.”
Physician-Scholars National Meeting, UCSF
Conference Organizer: “Structural Competency: New Medicine for the Inequalities that are
Making us Sick.” UCSF
Invited Lecture “Structural Competency in Global Health.” Yale University Global Mental
Health Seminar Series
Invited Lecture “Religion and Spirituality in Mental Health.” Center for Urban Community
Services Project for Psychiatric Services, New York
Panel Organizer: “Structural Competency: New Medicine for the Inequalities that are Making
us Sick.” American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Panel Presenter “New Medicine for Medicine: Structural Competency.” American
Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco
Invited Lecture “White Opioids.” Conference on Whiteness and Health, City University of
New York Graduate Center
Conference Organizer: “Structural Competency: New Medicine for the Inequalities that are
Making us Sick.” NYU Department of Social and Cultural Analysis
Invited Lecture “Biologizing Addiction: Race, Stigma & Markets” Culpepper Seminar,
Department of the Anthropology and History of Medicine, UCSF
Grand Rounds Presenter “Methadone, Buprenorphine and Markets for Opioid Maintenance
Therapy.” Kirby New York State Forensic Hospital
Invited Lecture “Addiction Pharmaceuticals and Race.” NYU Urban Health Interest Group
Divisional Grand Rounds Lecturer “Biologizing Addiction” NYU Division of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse
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2002
Invited Lecture “Cultural Issues in Mental Health – Training for Residents.” American
Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu
Invited Lecture “Clinical Trials: A Visual Ethnography of Addiction Pharmaceuticals.” NYU
Health, Humanities and Culture Lecture Series
Invited Lecture “A Model Curriculum in Culture and Mental Health: Research and Preliminary
Findings.” American Association of Directors of Residency Training, Austin Texas.
Panel Presenter “Clinical Trials: A Visual Ethnography of Addiction Pharmaceuticals.”
American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans
Invited Lecture “Training the Next Generation in Culture and Psychiatry: A National Study and
NYU Curriculum for Residency Education.” Tulane University School of Medicine
Panel Presenter “Ethnic Marketing: On Clinical Trials in Addiction Treatment.” Ethnography
and Social Change, Columbia University
Invited Lecture “Training the Next Generation in Culture and Psychiatry: A National Study and
NYU Curriculum for Residents.” American Psychiatric Association Minority Council
Panel Presenter “Clinical Trial: Documentary Film on Pharmacotherapies for Addiction.”
Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
Panel Presenter “A Tale of Two Opiate Addictions, Two Treatments: Ethnic Marketing of
Methadone and Buprenorphine.” American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia
Invited Lecture “Two Opiate Addictions, Two Treatments: Ethnic Marketing of Methadone and
Buprenorphine” Black Psychiatrists of America Annual Meeting, Aswan, Egypt
Grand Rounds Lecturer “Cultures of Addiction: A Tale of Two Treatments.” NYU Department
of Psychiatry
Panel Presenter “The Socioculture of Buprenorphine, and Opiate Maintenance Molecule.”
Physician-Scholars National Meeting, U. Pennsylvania
Panel Presenter “Sociocultural Factors Mitigating the Dissemination of Buprenorphine for
Treatment of Opiate Dependence in New York City.” American Psychiatric Association, San
Francisco
“Teaching Culture to Psychiatry Residents.” Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture,
San Francisco
“Toward and Ethnographic Psychiatry.” Cultural Studies Association Annual Meeting, New
York
“Toward and Ethnographic Psychiatry.” Open Minds Conference, New York University
“Faith-Based Stigma: From Ethnography in the Church to Homeland Security on the Wards.”
Presented at Rethinking Health, Culture and Society: Physician-Scholars in the Social Sciences
and Medical Humanities, University of Chicago
“Clinical Comparison of Faith-Based and Biomedical Treatments for Addiction Among Men in
Puerto Rico.” APA Annual Meeting Research Colloquium
"Evangelism as a Treatment for Addiction in Puerto Rico." Presented to the Society for the
Study of Psychiatry and Culture, Denver, Colorado
“Addiction as Choice: An Anthropological Study of Faith-Based Drug Treatment in Puerto
Rico.” Grand Rounds, Department of Psychiatry, Yale-New Haven Hospital.
“Effectiveness of Faith-Based Treatment for Substance Abuse: Clinical Evaluation in a Puerto
Rican Sample.” Presented at the annual meeting of the College on Problems of Drug
Dependence, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“The Clinical Gaze and the Ethnographic Ethic: Problems of Paradigm Surfing in a Dual
Method Approach.” Presented at the Second Annual Northeast Regional Health and Culture
Conference, Yale University
“Corazon de Carne o Mano Dura: Soft Hearts or Hard Hands in the War on Drugs.” Presented
at the American Anthropological Association National Meeting, New Orleans
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1999
“Disease, Moral Depravity or Social Decay: Models of Addiction in Puerto Rican Health
Policy.” Presented to the Bioethics Working Group, Institute for Social and Policy Studies,
Yale University
“Anthropology of Addiction.” Lecture for undergraduate course Cross-Cultural Issues in
Health, Wesleyan University
“Gender and Substance Abuse in Latin America.” Lecture for undergraduate course Women’s
Health, Yale University
“Problems of Masculinity and Family Among Puerto Rican Evangelist Ex-Addicts.” Presented
at the First Annual Northeast Regional Health and Culture Conference, Yale University.
“International Drug Trade in Latin America.” Lecture for undergraduate course Peoples and
Cultures of Latin America, Yale University.
“Race, Class and Health in Cuba.” Lecture for undergraduate course Peoples and Cultures of
Latin America, Yale University.
“Family Matters: Gender and Masculinity among Evangelist Ex-Addicts.” Presented at the
American Anthropological Association National Meeting, Washington, D.C.
“AIDS Policy in Cuba.” Presented in the Humanities in Medicine Lecture Series, Yale
University School of Medicine.
Professional Experience:
2011-present Anthropology Department Director, Undergraduate Joint Major in Anthropology and
Global Public Health
2011-present Professor, NYU undergraduate course Global Biocultures: Anthropological Approaches
to Public Health
2008-present Director, Culture and Psychiatry Curriculum for NYU Psychiatry Residents
2012-present Instructor, NYU Residency Course: Cross-Cultural Interviewing Skills
2012-present Instructor, NYU Residency Course in Structural and Global Mental Health
2012-present Director, NYU Residency Elective in Structural and Public Psychiatry
2012-2015
Instructor, NYU Residency Course: Politics and Economics of American Psychiatry
2014
Professor, NYU Graduate Seminar Anthropological Intersections
2009 Instructor, undergraduate seminar Biocultures, NYU Gallatin Center
2008-2009
Research Chief Resident, NYU Psychiatry Training Program
2006-2009
Founder and organizer, Research in Residency Interest Group, NYU
2006-2009
Founder and Organizer, Humanities in Psychiatry Interest group, NYU
2003-2004 Program Evaluator: Internal Medicine Residents’ Writer’s Workshop (with Dr. Abraham
Verghese), Yale-New Haven Hospital
2003 Chair, Planning Committee for Yale University Symposium on the Use of Ethnography in
Public Policy
2003 Executive Committee, Yale Interdisciplinary Bioethics Project Working Group on Distributive
Justice
2003 Ethnographic Consultant, Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Multicultural Research
2002-2003 Planning Committee, 2003 Summer Institute on the Ethics of International AIDS
Research, Yale University Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS
2002-2003 Program Evaluator, Power Day: Narrative Reflection on Abuse and Responsibilities for
Third Year Medical Students, Yale School of Medicine
2002-2003 Member, Yale School of Medicine Admissions Committee
2002 Planner, First Northeast Regional Health and Culture Conference, Yale University
2001 Teaching Assistant, Peoples and Cultures of Latin America, Yale University Department of
Anthropology
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Teaching Assistant, Women’s Health, Yale University Program in Gender and Women’s
Studies
1998 Research Intern, Needle Exchange Study, Hispanic Health Council, Hartford, CT
1993-1995 Program Officer and Health Policy Fellow, National AIDS Fund/Community
Foundation of New Jersey
1994 Visiting Intern, Hasting’s Center for Bioethics, Briarcliff Manor, New York
2000
Boards and Organizational Leadership:
2015-present Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Mental Health
2014-present Editorial Board Member, Anthropology Section, Global Mental Health Journal
2014-present, 2010-2012
American Psychiatric Association Council on Minority Affairs,
presidential appointee
2015-present Steering Committee Member, From Punishment to Public Health, New York City
2015-present Organizer/founder: Symbioses: A BioSocial Network biosocialnetwork.org
2015-present Organizer/Founder: Structural Competency Resource Bank structuralcompetency.org
2015-present NYU School of Medicine Diversity Ambassador
2015-present Chair, Psychiatry Department Diversity Committee
2013-present Founding Organizer, Anthropology of Global Public Psychiatry National Working
Group, Stanford
2009-present Group for Advancement of Psychiatry, Cultural Committee
2012-present Robert Wood Johnson Health and Society Scholars Strategic Planning Committee
Media Coverage:
2014 Arehart-Treichel J: “Psychiatrist-Anthropologist Studies Drug Addiction and Recovery.”
Psychiatric News of the American Psychiatric Association, February 26.
http://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/newsarticle.aspx?articleid=1838463
2014 Brauser, D. “Opioid prescriber monitoring may increase overdose deaths.” Medscape Medical
News December 12, 2014 http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/836489?src=emailthis
2014 Lane C: “Income Inequality is Making Americans Sick.” Psychology Today February 21.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/side-effects/201402/income-inequality-is-making-americanssick
2014 Psychiatric News of the American Psychiatric Association Video: “What Does Anthropology
Have to Offer Psychiatrists?” January 10.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xydPBSusGX0
2013 Kaylin J: “Proposing a New Politics of Medicine.” Yale Medicine Magazine, Spring 47(3).
http://yalemedicine.yale.edu/spring2013//dialogue/oncampus/155798
2013 McGill N.: “New Mental Health Manual Introduced for Changing Health Field: DSM-5
Released.” The Nation’s Health, American Public Health Association August 43(6):1-16
2013 Pri-Med Journal: “Social Considerations Not Accounted for in DSM-5.” May 13.
http://www.pri-med.com/pmo/MedicalNewsDetail.aspx?id=9409&topic=mc-topic::JJY80VFUH
2013 Clinical Advisor: “New DSM Criticized for Lack of Social Considerations.” May 14.
http://www.clinicaladvisor.com/new-dsm-5-criticized-for-lack-of-social-considerations/article/293191/
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2013 Health Care Professionals Live. “Social Variations Left Out of DSM.” May 14.
http://www.hcplive.com/articles/Social-Considerations-Not-Accounted-for-in-iDSM-5i
2013 Science Daily: “Examine Social Factors to Explain Rise in Diagnosis of Mental Disorders.”
April 25. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130425103200.htm
2013 Gever J: “New DSM Faulted for Ignoring Social Issues.” Medpagetoday.com, April 25.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/DSM-5/38687
2013 Lebano L: “DSM-5 Review Process Does Not Address Social Issues, Researchers Say.” Psych
Congress Network http://www.psychcongress.com/article/dsm-5-review-process-does-not-addresssocial-issues-researchers-say-11191
2013 Social Work Today: “Examine Social Factors to Explain Rise in Diagnosis of Mental Disorders.”
http://www.socialworktoday.com/news/dn_042613.shtml
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