Catherine Panter-Brick is the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University, where she directs the Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health and the Program on Stress and Family Resilience. She is also the senior editor (medical anthropology) of the interdisciplinary journal Social Science & Medicine and the President-Elect of the Human Biology Association.[1] She serves as Head of Morse College, one of Yale’s 14 residential colleges, and is Chair of the Council of Heads.[2][3]
Catherine Panter-Brick | |
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| Nationality | French, British |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Known for | Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University |
| Awards | Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology by the Council of the Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Anthropology |
| Institutions | Yale University |
Background and education
editAs a medical anthropologist, Panter-Brick was trained in both human biology and the social sciences. Her current research addresses issues of risk and resilience in contexts of war, forced displacement, famine, poverty, and social marginalization. She has directed more than forty interdisciplinary research projects in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Jordan, Mexico, Nepal, Niger, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, and the UK. She publishes extensively in biomedical and social sciences journals, and has co-edited seven books, most recently Medical Humanitarianism [4] and Pathways to Peace.[5]
Career
editPanter-Brick holds a joint appointment at Yale University in the Department of Anthropology[6] and the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs,[7] and a secondary appointment at the School of Public Health.[8] She actively serves on the Steering Committee of the Yale Women’s Faculty Forum (WFF)[9] and the Global Health Initiative (GHI), and leads the Early Childhood Peacebuilding Consortium with other faculty at Yale and the United Nations to disseminate scientific research and advocate for better policies on violence prevention.[10] Prior to coming to Yale, she was a professor of anthropology at Durham University and a Fellow at St Hugh's College, Oxford. She has also been appointed a senior research fellow in the Crisis Prevention & Post-Conflict Unit of Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and a research associate of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).[6] She also leads research initiatives to develop effective partnerships between scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers. An example of recent work strengthening the evidence base for mental health and resilience interventions in humanitarian crises was funded by the Wellcome Trust and the UK Government under the Elrha’s R2HC Program.[11]
Her teaching at Yale includes interdisciplinary courses on global health equity, humanitarian interventions, conflict and resilience. She has organized many Colloquia on the themes of Social Justice, Solidarity, and Forced Migration, Health and Humanitarian Action, Social Innovation, Violence and Agency. On the issue of resilience and forced migration, she has been a keynote speaker at the United Nations,[12] contributed to national and international media broadcasts, and presented at international iNGO dissemination events, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United States Institute of Peace.
Featured work
editProfessor Panter-Brick directed more than 40 interdisciplinary research projects that address issues of risk and resilience in contexts of war, displacement, famine, and poverty. She has global collaborations with scholars at over 60 different universities in the last 4 years, established through fieldwork and publications. Panter-Brick has authored more than 140 peer-reviewed scientific publications in the biomedical, health, and social sciences, and coedited seven books.[13]
Honors and awards
editFor her work in humanitarian and conflict areas such as Niger and Afghanistan, Panter-Brick was awarded the Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology by the Council of the Royal Anthropology Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.[14] This awards honors excellence in the application of anthropology to the relief of poverty and distress and to the active recognition of human dignity. She has also been appointed a senior research fellow in the Crisis Prevention & Post-Conflict Unit of Agence Française de Développement (AFD)[15] and a research associate of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).[16]
Personal life
editShe is married to Mark Eggerman and has two sons, Dominic and Jannik.[17]
Publications
editPanter-Brick is the author of seven co-edited books and 140 peer-reviewed articles.[18]
References
edit- ^ "Human Biology Association". Humbio.org. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ Cook, Sarah; Zhang, Brian; Bhansali, Ahaan (2022-10-07). "Family Weekend returns in person after COVID-19 hiatus". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ^ "Residential Colleges | Yale College". Yalecollege.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Medical Humanitarianism | Sharon Abramowitz, Catherine Panter-Brick, Peter Piot". Upenn.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Pathways to Peace". The MIT Press. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ a b "Catherine Panter-Brick | Department of Anthropology". Anthropology.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Panter-Brick". Jackson.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Panter-Brick | Yale School of Public Health". Publichealth.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Welcome | Women Faculty Forum". Wff.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Panter-Brick". Jackson.yale.edu. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Measuring the health and wellbeing impacts of a scalable program of psychosocial intervention for refugee youth". Elrha.org. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Forum at the UN Discusses the Significance of Parents for Human Development - Universal Peace Federation". Upf.org. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Catherine Panter-Brick | DPhil, Oxon; Msc, Biological Anthropology; MA, Human Sciences | Yale University, CT | YU | Department of Anthropology". Researchgate.net. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology". Therai.org.uk. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Accueil | AFD - Agence Française de Développement". Afd.fr. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
- ^ "Centre national de la recherche scientifique". Cnrs.fr.
- ^ "New Morse College master named: anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick". YaleNews. 2015-04-09. Retrieved 2023-11-26.
- ^ "panter-brick - PubMed - NCBI". Ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 8 August 2019.