I.PERSONAL DATA

Education:
Ph.D., Anthro, 1976 &  M.S.Hyg., Pub Health, 1969, Univ. of Pittsburgh; B.A., Sociology, 1965 Shaw Univ.

Business:
Dept of Anthropology,
Univ of Maryland, College Park,MD, 20742;

Phone: 301-405-1423
Fax: 301-314-8305.

Title:
Professor of Medical Anthropology & Dir. The Cultural Systems Analysis Group (CuSAG)    

II. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE AND INTERESTS

A. Anthropology:
Medical/Population/Nutrition; Social/Cultural; African-American/African/Caribbean/American South/Urban; Symbolic/Cognitive.

B. Public Health:
AIDS/Drugs/Violence; Sociocultural Correlates of Hypertension; Cultural Systems and Health; Sociocultural Influences on Dietary Behavior; Health Related Explanatory Models

C. General:
Qualitative Research Methods/Community Studies/Needs Assessment/Formative Evaluation; Community Organizing/Development; Gender and Sex Roles/Family Dynamics; Genealogical Research; Cross-Cultural and Interpersonal Communication

III. ACADEMIC POSITIONS HELD AND COURSES TAUGHT

A. Positions Held

1. Univ. of Maryland-College Park (UMCP), Prof. 1993-Present; Assoc Prof and Chairman, Dept. of Anthropology, 1987-93. (On leave 1987-88 academic year as visiting scholar, Centre National de Recherche Scientific, France); Founder and Director of the Cultural Systems Analysis Group (CuSAG), an applied research and technical assistance unit, 1989-Present

2. Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (UNC-CH), Assoc. Prof., 1983-87; Asst.Prof. 1976-83. . Guest Lectures in Dept. of Maternal & Child Health, Family Medicine, Sociology, Psychology, Anthropology, The African-Afro-American Curriculum, and History.

3. Carlow College- Pittsburgh, PA- Instructor, 1975.

4. Univ. of Pittsburgh - Instructor, 1972, 1973, 1975:

5. Duquesne Univ.,Pittsburgh- Instructor, Spring, 1972.

6. Middle East Technical Univ., Ankara, Turkey- Teacher of English as a Second Language (TESL), 1966-1967 (U.S. Peace Corps volunteer)

7. Guest Lectures at Various Universities: Michigan State University; 1990; Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (Paris, France,Fall 1987); Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine, Univ. of the West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica, Summer 1983); Univ. of Tennessee (Fall, 1981); Purdue Univ.-(Spring, 1980: Martin Luther King Lecture); Washington Univ.(St. Louis),(Winter 1980); Davidson College, (Spring, 1980); Univ. of Louisville-(Fall, 1976); Duke Univ. (Fall.1977)

B. Courses Taught:
Applied Urban Ethnography; Cultural Understanding; Social & Cultural Change; Cultural Analysis; Ethnographic Research Methods; Culture and Health; Qualitative Methods for Community Workers; Family and Kinship; The Black Family; Community Organization; The Masculine Gender; Issues in International Health; African-American Cultures & Societies; Food and Culture; Family Planning; Psychological Anthropology;Introductory Anthropology; Cultural Anthropology; Physical Anthropology; Race Relations; Ethnic Relations;

 IV. RESEARCH

1. PUBLICATIONS, REPORTS AND PROFESSIONAL PAPERS

A. Books

1. T.L. Whitehead and B.E. Reid, Sexual Constructs and Social Issues. Champaign-Urbana: Univ Illinois Press, l992

2. T.L.Whitehead and M.E.Conaway (eds.) Self, Sex and Gender_in_Cross_Cultural_Fieldwork: A_Collection.  Champaign-Urbana: Univ Illinois Press, 1986.

B. Refereed Journal Articles, Book Chapters, and Works Presently Under Peer Review

1.T.L. Whitehead, The "Epidemic" and "Cultural Legends" of Black Male Incarceration: The Socialization of African American Children to a Life of Incarceration" In Building Violence: How America's Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence, John P. May (ed.). In Press, Sage Publications, Summer 1999.

2. T.L. Whitehead, "Urban Low Income African American Men, HIV/AIDS, and Gender Identity". Medical Anthropologist Quarterly, December, 1997

3.Kaljee, L., T. L. Whitehead, et al "Perceptions among Urban Adolescents and their Parents of Violence within and against Their Communities?, Human Organization, 1995.

4. Whitehead, T.L., J. Peterson and L. Kaljee, ?The ?Hustle?: Socioeconomic Deprication, Urban Drug Trafficking, and Low-Income African American Male Gender Identity?, Pediatrics, 1994, 93 (6).

5.T.L. Whitehead, ?Expressions of Masculinity in a Jamaican Sugar Town? in Gender Constructs and Social Issues, 1992

6. B.E. Reid and T.L. Whitehead, "Introduction" to Gender Constructs and Social Issues, 1992.

7. T.L. Whitehead, "In Search of Soul Food" in African Americans in the South, H. Baer and Y. Jones (ed.). Athens: Univ Georgia Press, 1992.

8. T.L.Whitehead, "Black Family and Kinship" in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: Univ N. Carolina Press, 1989.

9. T.L.Whitehead, "Black Genealogy" in The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. Chapel Hill: Univ N. Carolina Press, 1989.

10. H.L.Cook, J.Goeppinger, S.E.Brunk, L.J.Price, T.L. Whitehead, and S.V.H.Sauter, "A Re-examination of Community Participation in Health: Lessons from Three Community Health Projects" J Fam and Comm Health, Fall, l988

11. E.Wright and T.L.Whitehead, "Perceptions of Body Size and Obesity: A Selected Review of the Literature" J Community Health, Summer/Fall, l987.

12. T.L.Whitehead and M.E. Conaway "The Introduction". Self, Sex and Gender in Cross-Cultural Fieldwork, 1986

13. T.L.Whitehead and J.Brown, "Gender Related Issues in Carrying out Rapid Team Fieldwork: A Case Study from Cameroon" in Self, Sex and Gender... 1986.

14. T.L.Whitehead, "Breakdown Resolution and Coherence: The Fieldwork Experiences of a Big, Brown, Pretty-talking Man in a West Indian Community" in Self, Sex and Gender... 1986

15. T.L.Whitehead and L.Price, "Male versus Female Fieldworkers: A Discussion", in Self, Sex and Gender...., 1986.

16. D.A.Frate, T.L.Whitehead and S.A.Johnson "The Use of Traditional Social Settings in the Management of Contemporary Health Problems,", J Voluntary Action Research, 13 (4), 1984.

17. T.L.Whitehead, D.A.Frate and S.A.Johnson "Control of High Blood Pressure from Two Community Based Perspectives," Human Organization, Fall 1984

18. T.L.Whitehead, "The 'Buccra-Massa' and The Little Man's Broker in a Jamaican Sugartown: Implications for Community Health Education Programs," Social Science and Medicine, 10(5), 1984.

19. T.L.Whitehead, "Sociocultural Dynamics and Food Habits in a Southern Community," in Food in The Social Order, Mary Douglas (ed.), New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1984.

20. K.M.Gentemann and T.L.Whitehead, "The Teacher Counselor as Cultural Broker: A Case Study in Biocultural Pedagogy," J Negro Education, 52(2), 1983.

21. D.A.Frate, T.L.Whitehead, and S.A.Johnson, "Selection, Training and Utilization of Health Counselors in the Management of High Blood Pressure," Urban Health, (May) 1983.

22. J.W.Hatch and T.L.Whitehead, "Increasing Energy Costs and the Poor: New Challenges for Community Organization," In Social and Political Perspectives on Energy Policy. K.M. Gentemann (ed) New York: Praeger, 1981.

23. J.Kramer, A.Thomas and T.L.Whitehead, "Natural Social Support and Helping Networks: Their Relationship to Health Care Delivery," in Systems Science in Health Care, C.Tilguin (ed.) London: Pergammon Press, 1981.

24. T.L.Whitehead, "Identity, Subjectivity and Cultural Bias in Fieldwork," The Black Scholar, Vol. II, No. 7, 1980.

25. T.L.Whitehead, "The Applied Setting as Ethnography: A Case Study," Human Organization. Fall, 1978.

26. T.L. Whitehead, "Residence, Kinship and Mating as Survival Strategies: A Jamaican Example," J Marr and Fam, Nov 1978.

 C. Book Reviews

1.Williams, M.D., On the Street Where I Lived (New York: Holt,Rinehart and Winston, The American Anthropologist, Vol. 85, No. 5, 1983.

2.Nag, Moni, Population and Social Organization, Medical Anthropology Newsletter, Fall 1977.

 
D. Non-Refereed Articles

1. T.L. Whitehead, Response To ?Children?s Exposure to Community Violence?, by Esther Jenkins, Proceedings of the Institute on Domestic Violence in the African American Community, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Community Services, May 31-June 2, 1995, pp. 119-127

2. T.L. Whitehead and E. Wright, ?Sociocultrual Determinants of Obesity in a North Carolina Community? Social Science May 1987.

3. T.L Whitehead, ?An Anthropologist?s View of Some Health Education Approaches for Reaching Culturally Diverse Populations,? in Proceedings of the Minority Forum on Hypertension, 1980. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institue, NIH, Washington, D.C. 1983

4.T.L. Whitehead, ?A Research Report: Towards a Model for Studying the Social and Cultural Factors Underlying Food Habits in a Southern U.S. Community,? African Studies Occasional Papers, No. 80-6. African Studies and Research Center, Purdue University, July 1980.

5. T.L. Whitehead, ?A Consumer Evaluation of an Educational-Medical Program for Pregnant School-Aged Girls,? in Guidelines for Self-Evaluation of Programs Serving Adolescent Parents, E.L.Husting et al.(eds.), Univ Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, June, 1973.

E. Works in Progress

1. T.L. Whitehead, Urban Violence, Drugs and The African American Man-Child.:Reconciling A Fragmented Gender Self. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press. (Contracted volume, still in preparation with plans for submission by October 31 1999, and probably published in late 2001).

2. T.L. Whitehead, ?The Cultural Ecology of Health and Change: The Application of the Concept of Culutre in Community Health Programs?. (Projected completion of manuscript, 2000)

3. T. L. Whitehead, ?Ehnographically Informed Community Assessment?. (Projected completion of manuscript, 2000).

 
F. Technical Reports
 

1."A Focus Group Assessment of HIV/AIDS Related Communication Issues Among Incarcerated Populations in Maryland Correctional Facilities" (February, 1996)

2. "The Ryan White HIV C.A.R.E. Ethnography". Submitted to the Health Resources Administration (With the Assistance of J. Peterson and C. Slocum) March 1, 1993.

3."Ethnographic Assessment of the Baltimore AIDS Prevention Perinatal and Life Enrichment Project". Submitted with the Baltimore City Health Department (with the assistance of A. Gilliam, and Mr. J. Peterson) May 1992.

4.The annual report of the Cooperative Agreement, "The Cultural Ecology of Food and Health" between the University of Maryland and the United States Agency for International Development) December 1991.

5."Condom Focus Group Report". Submitted to the Department of AIDS Services Submitted to the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (with the assistance of A. Gilliam)

6."AIDS Focus Group Report: An Ethnographic Research Project". Submitted to the Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH), AIDS Administration (with the assistance of A. Gilliam) May 1990

7.Report on a Cross-Cultural Staff Development Workshop submitted to DHMH, AIDS Administration. November 14, 1989.

8.Final Evaluation of USAID Support to Committee on International Nutrition Programs of the National Academy of Sciences (with M. Smith and E. Kennedy) prepared in consultation to John Snow, Inc. April l989.

9.Evaluation and Consultation Report on the Roanoke Chowan Health Care Cross Cultural Communication Project. Submitted to the North Carolina Humanities Committee. July 1987.

10.The Involvement of Clergy in Cancer Prevention: Black Inner City Ministers. Submitted to The National Cancer Institute (with E.McKinney and J.Hatch). August 1987.

11."Reaching out, Touching You - We Are Our Brothers Keeper". An Operational Manual for Controlling High Blood Pressure Control Programs Through Black Churches" (with D.A. Frate, et al. Rural Health Research Program, Univ Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., 1987.

12."A Training Manual in Cross-Cultural Communication" (with Pape A. Gaye), Regional Training and Resource Office, The U.S. Peace Corps, Lome, Togo, West Africa, 1985.

13."The Norfolk Assembly Project." The Rockerfeller Foundation, Project No. GA EO 8018, 1983.

14."Socio-Anthropological Study of Selected Populations of the Kadey Department, Eastern Province, United Republic of Cameroon" (with J.F. Brown and E. Ndjieku) U.S. AID - Ministry of Health Project No. 631-0009, United Republic of the Cameroon, 1981.

15."The Status of the Family," paper prepared for a book prepared by the Systems Research and Development Corporation, The Office of Child Development, National Institutes of Health, 1980.

16."A Primer for the Beginning Genealogist", a draft of a booklet produced for the American Genealogical Research Institute, 1977.

17."Instructional Guidelines for a Correspondence Course in Genealogical Reconstruction," a draft for the American Genealogical Research Institute, 1977.

G. Papers Presented at Professional Meetings and Conferences Organized

1. Since 1975, I have presented more than 35 professional papers at such meetings as those of the American Anthropological Association (AAA, 20 papers),the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnographic Sciences (ICAES, 8 papers), the Northeastern Anthropological Association (7 papers), the American Public Health Association (4 papers), the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA, 2 papers), the National High Blood Pressure Conference, the Southeastern High Blood Pressure Conference (3 papers), the Minority Forum on High Blood Pressure (3 papers). The American Academy for the Advancement of Sciences, the Public Health Forum, the Smithsonian Institute Seminar Series, The National Research Council's Minority Postdoctoral Fellowship Conference, The Trilateral Conference on High Blood Pressure, the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension in Blacks, the Third World Conference, the National Conference on Desegregation in Higher Education, the American Educational Research Association, and the Arthritis Health Professionals Association. These papers focused on such topics as sociocultural influences on dietary behavior, men and family planning, gender issues, community-based planned change, pluralism and cultural continuity in higher education, functional perspectives on the christian church in third-world communities, cultural brokers in higher education, sociocultural correlates of hypertension, and community based research. Among the many invited presentations that I have made include invitations to present papers (on food and culture) at the ICAES conferences in India in 1978, Vancouver, Canada in 1983, and Zagreb, Yugoslavia in 1988, a conference on North Carolina and Washington D.C. cultural connections in March, l987, at a National Institute of Cancer funded symposium on diet and nutrition among the black aged in the Spring of 1988, on my food and culture research at the National Research Council and to be a discussant on a symposium on AIDS in the Fall of 1988, a presenter on a symposium on drug trafficking in 1990 and 1993, a discussant on a symposium on the exchange of sex for crack cocaine in 1991, a presenter at a symposium honoring Dimitri Shimkin in 1992, on qualitative evaluation by the Office of Minority Health in 1993 and 1994, on CARE for African Americans with AIDS in 1993 by HRSA, on urban youth violence at a conference on childhood injury at George Washington University in the Spring of 1994, and on integrating qualitative and quantitative research methodology at a conference on "Effective Prevention-Interventions with African American Populations", by the National Institutes of Drug Abuse in the summer of 1994. I have organized numerous symposia and panels at professional conference, including a "mini" conference of symposia entitled "Functional Perspectives of the Christian Church in Third World Communities", held over three days presented as part of the 1988 ICAES conference in Zagreb Hungary, an International Food Conference sponsored by the Wenner Gren Foundation in 1990 with participants from Europe, Africa and the Caribbean, and a conference, "African American and AIDS: Community Based Approaches" held in College Park in September, 1994.  I organized one day seminars at the 1995 and 1996 meetings of the Society for Applied Anthopology (SfAA), in which I worked with students in the preparation of papers in which they presented. A third with student participation is being prepared for the 1998 SfAA meetings.  I organized a symposium for the 1996 meetings of the AAA entitled ?Looking Back to the Future: Anthropology for the 21^st Century?.

2. Funded Research

A. Research as Primary Investigator.

1. "An Ethnographic Assesment of the Washington, D.C. Community Health Initiative?, The Casey Foundation ($60,000), November 30, 1997-98

2. The Ethnographic Overview of Independence National Park?, The U.S. National Park Service ($68,000), September 1, 1997-August 31, 1998.

3. "An Ethnography of Sexually Transmitted Disease Related Attitudes and Practices of 15-19 year old African American Females, January 1-December 31, 1997, the Prince Georges County Health Department ($108,000).

4. ?The Ethnographic Component of the Liberty Health Systems Community Health Assessment?, October 1, 1995--June 30, 1996, Liberty Health Systems ($40,000). This project was aborted after it was ahlf done because of the merger of Liberty Health Systems with another hospital in Baltimore.

5. ?An Ethnography of HIV Related Issues Among Incarcerated Adults in the State of Maryland?, March 1-August 31, 1995, Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ($50,000).

6. An Ethnographic Evaluation of the HUD Urban Redevelopment Project in the Lafayette Terrace Housing Unitsof Baltimore, Maryland, Abt Associates ($14,000)

7. "The Urban Male HIV Ethnography?, July, 1994 to March 1995, Subcontract to the Contraceptive Research and Development Project , Centers for Disease Control ($60,000)

8."MEDTEP? (Minority Health Research Center) 1992 to 1995, Subcontract with the Pediatric Division of the University of Maryland at Baltimore (UMAB) Medical School, National Institutes of Health ($110,000)

9. ?The Ryan White CARE Ethnography?, 1992 Health Resources and Services Administration, ($24,960)

10. Ethnographic Evaluation of the AIDS Perinatal Prevention and Life Enrichment Project (APPLE)?, 1991-92, Subcontract with the Baltimore City Health Department, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ($34,960)

11. ?The Cultural Ecology of Food?, 1990-92, Agency for International Development, Cooperative Agreement ($251, 654);

12.?Youth AIDS Intervention?, 1990-95, Subcontract with the Pediatric Division, UMAB, National Institutes of Mental Health (in collaboration with Univ of Maryland Medical Shcool) ($181,464)

13."Decision-Making by Youth, Regarding AIDS Risk Behavior?, 7/1/90-6/30/92, National Institutes of Health and Child Development, Co-investigator and Subcontractor to Univ of Maryland Medical School ($119,173)

14.?Baltimore Immunization Project?, 1990-91, Center for Disease Control, Subcontract with Johns Hopkins Univ ($38,593)

15. ?Ethnographic Research on AIDS?, 12/16/89-5/31/90, Maryland State Department of Health and Mental Hygiene ($40,000);

16. ?The Cultural Ecology of Food: A Conference?, 1990, Wenner-Gren Foundation ($18,500)

17. ?Psychosocial Loss Due to Drug Trafficking?, 1989-92, Subcontract to the Research Triangle Institue (RTI) on the ?District of Columbia Metropolitan Area Study? (DC*MADS), The National Institutes of Drug Abuse ($80,000).

18. ?Towards the Development of a Cultural Model for the Study of Food Behavior?, 1987-88, a National Research Council senior post-doctoral fellowship carried out in Pau, France with Team 263, ?The Anthropology of Food?, of the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).

` 19."Store Front Preachers? Perceptions of the Health Needs of the Inner City?, 1986, The National Cancer Institute ($10,000).

20.?A Descriptive Assessment of the Norfolk Assembly Program?, 1980-82, The Rockerfeller Foundation ($38,500).

21."Common Residence, Network Dynamics, and Elevated Blood Pressure?, 1980-83, The National Heart, Lung, & Blood Institute ($89,970). Earlier funding by Univ N. Carolina Shcool of Public Health Biomed Sciences Research Suopport Grant, (1976-79) and the Univ N. Carolina Research Council (1977-79).

22.?Culture and Class Variables of Food Habits?, 1978-80, The Russell Sage Foundation; ($44,500)

23. ?Analysis of Jamaican Male and Family Data (Summer 1983), The Carolina Population Center ($3000)

24. "Jamaican Male Family and Family Planning Project," 1974-76, Provost Development Fund, Univ of Pittsburgh ($8500)

25. ?Evaluation of Educational-Medical Program for Pregnant School-Age Girls in Pittsburgh, PA.?, 1968-69, The Department of Health, Education and Welfare ($5000).

B. Research as Consultant or Co-Investigator

1."Arthritis Psychosocial Research Measures Project" (10% Time), 1985-87, Univ N. Carolina's Multiple Arthritis Center National Institutes of Health.

2."Rural Mississippi Health Projects", 1981-89, Rural Health Research Center of Central Mississippi, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; National Cancer Institute.

VI. CONSULTATION AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

A. International

1. Member of World Bank Consultant Team to Trinidad-Tobago to Explore Strategies for Addressing Youth at Risk, July, 1998.

2. Prepared and Presented Focus Group Discussion with International Group of Traditional Healers as Part of Workshop on "Traditional Healing and AIDS", June 12, 1996.

3. Advisory Committee Member, "Child Survival Fellowship Program", Cooperative Agreement between Johns Hopkins University and the United States Agency for International Development, 1990-Present.

4.Consultation Provided to the Population Advisor USAID-Chad, 1987.

5.Consultation provided to International Child Care, Inc. Haiti,1987

5.Conducted Training of Trainers Workshop for U.S. Peace Corps in Malawi, December 1985.

6.Conducted Training of Trainers Workshop in Cross-cultural Communication for U.S. Peace Corps in Zaire with participants from 22 African countries, Summer, 1985

7.For two years while at UNC-CH, I provide an all day session on "needs Assessment" for African and Caribbean health officials in the UNC-CH's annual international four-week short course.

8.Consultant to the Practical Training in Health Education Project of the Cameroon (French Africa). Funded by the United States Agency for International Development, 1978-1982.

9.Consulted with the National Family Planning Board of Jamaica regarding male motivation in Family Planning, Summer, 1983; Fall, 1971.

10.Health Services Division of the Westinghouse Learning Corporation(Bladensburg, MD): Summer,1971.

11.While at UNC-CH, I frequently consulted with international visitors to the School of Public Health in nutrition, health education, strategies for community involvement and family planning.

B. National

1. 1999. General Consultant to the "Turning Point Program" of the National Association of County and City Health Organization (NACCHO). Turning Point is a project funded jointly by the Kellogg and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations to assist state and county health organizations in 21 states to establish community based health care delivery programs. Consultation at the present time focuses on the development and implementation of criteria for the evaluation of state and local community based health programs.

2. June, 1999. Keynote Speaker of the Plenary Session of the National Association of County and City Health Organizations (NACCHO) "Turning Point Program" annual conference.

3. 1999. Invited and delivered paper on my Ethnographically Informed Community Assessment Research Systems at a June meeting of the National Institutes of Mental Health on "Culture and Context in Community-Level HIV/STD Prevention Research." The purpose of this meeting was to provide insight to NIMH on the development of community based research approaches.

4. The Dorothy Rider Pool Health Care Trust, Consultant on Community Health Programs, September, 1998.

5. Research Triangle Institute, Consultant on Unwanted Pregnancy Project, Fall, 1998.

6. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Member of the ?Fighting Back? Program Evaluation Technical Advisory Committee. Spring 1997

7. National Cancer Institute Dietary Guidelines Implemented on Black Churches Project. Spring 1997.

8. Advisory Board Member, The J. Raymond Williams Memorial Scholarship in Public Archaeology, Department of Anthropology, University of South Florida1996----

9. National Institute of Nursing Research, Member of expert panel with charge of developing new research porgram. Personal responsibility of writing state of art paper on health needs of urban blacks. Spring 1994.

10. National Cancer Institute, Research proposal review panel member, Spring 1994.

11. National Congressional Black Caucus Foundation. Member, Health Task Force. Charged with exploring black health needs for policy considerations related to the national debate around health reform, Spring 1994.

12. Office of Minority Health, U.S. Public Health Service. Presented 2 Workshops on the use of ethnography in program evaluation, and professional development issues. Spring, 1994.

13. National institutes of Drug Abuse, will produce paper on integrating qualitative and quantitative research methodology for a technical review on ?Effective Prevention-Interventions with African American Populations?.

14. 1993, American Anthropological Association, Invited to be a participant in a Wenner-Gren Foundation Conference on ?Establishing Priorities in Anthropology for the Decade?, Tarrytown, New York. February.

15. 1993, Consultant to the Health Resources Administration at two day Conference on Barriers to Care for African Americans with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease. Presented results of ?The Ryan White HIV C.A.R.E. Ethnography?.

16. 1993, Consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service?s Office of Minority Health. Presented a workshop on ?Building Community Coalitions in Providing Health Care to Ethnic Minority Communities?.

17. 1991, Invited Presenter at Workshop on ?AIDS and Culturally Diverse Populations?, Annual Conference of Center for Disease Control Sponsored Community Based AIDS Education (May 21-22) 15. 1991, Invited Presenter at Workshop on Urban Youth and RAP Music, Annual conference of the Midwest Region Drug Center (6/6-7/91).

18. 1989-92, Consultant to the Research Triangle Institute in its Contract to the National Institute of Drug Abuse?s, D.C. Metropolitan Drug Study.

19. 1991, Consultant to the Centers for Disease Control regarding the Development of Procedures for funding Community Based Organizations Education Programs on AIDS.

20. 1990, Consultant to National Institutes of Drug Abuse Ethnographic Study of ?Sex for Crack? in 9 urban areas.

21. 1989, Consultant to the Office of Nutrition, Agency for International Development as member of evaluation team.

22. 1982-1987, Consultant to the Rural Health Research Project of Central Mississppi. Various research projects on cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

23. 1987, Member of the Planning Committee of a Conference on the Health of Black Americans sponsored by the National Center of Health Education.
24. 1986, Consultant to the United States Department of Agriculture in producing a ?Guide to Cross-cultural Nutritional Counselling?.

25. 1983, Member of the Planning Committee of the Annual conference of the National Council of International Health. Theme of Conference: ?Traditional Healing?.

26. 1983-87, Member, Health Services Development Grants Review Subcommittee of the National Center for Health Service Research.

27. 1981-85, Consultant to the National Heart, Lung and lood Institute to serve on special research review committees of proposals on community based interventions.

28. 1982-86, Member, ad hoc review committees for the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health, and the Division of Nursing, National Institutes of Health.

29. 1983, Invited presenter in a workshopentitled ?Model Programs? in the American Red Cross Trilateral Project Conference on ?High Blood Pressure Education and Control in the Black Community.? (November).

30. 1982, Invited Presnter, Ninth Annual Southeastern High Blood Pressure Conference, at two sessions, one on ?Worksite Blood Pressure Control Programs? and the other on ?Coordinating Community Programs with Local Medical Systems.? (Biloxi, Mississippi, October).

31. 1982-83, Member of consultant task force to ANROW Sciences to develop guidelines on ?Diffusion Strategies Among Culturally Diverse Populations?; Chairman Subcommittee on Black Americans.

32. 1982, Member, task force on ?Noncompliance in Black Male Hypertensives,? Dynamic Programs, Inc., Washington, D.C. (February-October, 1982).

C. State and Local

1. Spring 1998---Consultant to the Fighting Back Program of the Marshall Heights Community Development Organization of Washington, D.C.

2. Fall 1997---Consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation to Conduct an Ethnographic Assessment of the Process of their sponsorship of the D.C. General Hospital and several Community Based Organizations in a Community Health Initiative to deliver health care to low income neighborhoods of Wards 1 and 7 of the District of Columbia.

3. June 1996, Consultant to the Northwest Baltimore Coalition of Churches on Conducting Community Assessments.

4. November, 1995, Presenter on ?AIDS Among African Americans in Marylnd?, at first annual conferene of the Maryland State Black Legislative Caucus, in an effort to assist the Caucus in exploring the needs of the black population of Maryland.

5. January 1995---, Member and Resource Person, Prince Georges and Montgomery County Health Department?s HIV/AIDS Prevention, Regional Planning Group

6. January 1995---Research Consultant to Liberty Medical Center of Baltimore, Maryland.

7. August 1994---Member, Advisory Committee for the ?Ethnographic Rsearch and Urban Plicy Problems Conference?, School of Social Work, Howard University

8. Marshall Heights Community Development Organization, Provided Support in Preparation for Program Review of Robert Wood Johnson Sponsored Project

9. 1991-, Member, Research Subcommittee, Governor's Task Force on Balck Males.

10. 1991-, Member, Research Subcommittee, Governer?s Task Force on Substance Abuse.

11. 1991-92-, Consultant to the Baltimore City Health Department on AIDS Perinatal Prevention Project.

12. 1989-91, Consultant to Johns Hopkins University on two projects on risk and prevention behaviors for HIV transmission.

13. 1987, Planned and implemented a focus group study of medical providers and the client community of the Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie, N.C.

14. 1986-87, Advisory Committee Member, Medicine and Society Program of the North Carolina Humanities Committee.

15. 1985-87, Consultant to the Medicine and Ethics Committee of the North Carolina Humanities Committee.

16. 1986-87, Consultant to the ?Morals in Medicine? Project of Charlotte, N.C.

17. 1985, Developed and co-facilitated cross-cultural communication in the workplace training module for inner city entry-level workers for the Haiti Development Corporation, Durham, N.C.

18. 1985, Developed and presented a workshop entitled ?Entre and Utilization of Community Resources in Humanities Projects? for the North Carolina Humanities Committee.

19. 1983-84, Committee member Task Force on Special Services, Chapel hill-Carrboro City Schools, Chapel Hill,

20. 1978, Consultant for Special Projects, Johnson County Citizens Association (JCCA) of Johnston County, N.C.

21. 1982-85, Member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Health and Human Services Project of the General Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Inc.

22. While at UNC-CH, I was a presented at an average of 3 continuing education workshops annually, on topics such as: (1) Adolescent and Human Sexuality; (2)Hypertension Risk Factors; (3) Minority Issues (health practices, mental health, the delivery of services to and the significance of minority presence in service agencies); (4) migrant workers health issues;

(5) sociocultural factors underlying dietary patterns; (6) non-compliance to medical regimens; (7) male risk behavior; (8) community assessments and program evaluations; (9) health related family dynamics; (10) techniques in community organizing; (11)staff training; and (12) client-provider communication.

23. Also while at UNC-CH, I was involved in helping various agencies develop proposals locally, nationally and internationally including: a) the development of a proposal on minorities and street crimes for Systems Research Development Corporation; b) the development of a proposal seeking funds for broadcasting family health programs for WVSP Radio (Warrenton, North Carolina); c) participated in writing a proposal with a group from the Carolina Population Center on breastfeeding; d) assisted in writing a proposal to help the Village Health Committee of Kpandu-Dafor, Ghana build a health center and a bridge over a lake (for easy transport to hospitals and other health facilities); e) assisted the North Carolina Heart Association write a proposal for establishing hypertension-related health education projects in industries; f) wrote
proposal for the Black Historical Society of Chatham County to carry out oral histories.

VII. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP AND OFFICES

A. Society for Applied Anthropology (Member, Executive Committee, 1991-94; Annual Conference Program Committee, 1998).

B. American Anthropological Association (Nominations Committee, 1990-92; Program Board, 1985).

C. The Association of Black Anthropologists (President 1984-86; Treasurer, 1986-1988; Nominations Committee, 1991-93; Video Productions Committee, 1991-93; Nominating Committee, 1997--).

D. Theta Chapter Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society, (President 1987, Vice-President 1986; Secretary/Treasurer 1985.

E. Member, The American Anthropology Association, The Association of Black Anthropologists; The Society for Medical Anthropology, The Society for Applied Anthropology, The Society for Urban Anthropology, The National Association of Practicing Anthropologists, The Society for Urban Anthroplogy, and the North America Anthropological Association.

VIII. AWARDS AND HONORS

A. Invited Lecutrer for the Second Annual Charles H. McNutt Speakers? Series on Advances in Anthropology, University of Memphis (October 13, 1997)

B. The District of Columbia General Hospital, Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding Community Service (February 19, 1994

C. National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work with a Food and Culture Research Group at the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Pau, France (1987-88).

D. Delta Omega, Public Health Honor Society (1983)

E. Johnston County Citizens Association-Public Service Award (Fall, 1983)

F. UNC Faculty Development Award (1983)

G. National Institutes of Health, New Investigators Award (1980-1983)

H. U.S. Peace Corps Certificate of Appreciation (1978)

I. Carolina Population Center Faculty Award (1978)

J. University of Pittsburgh, Cultural Affairs Award (1974)

K. University of Pittsburgh, Provost Development Fund Award (1974-1975)

L. U.S. Public Health Service Predoctoral Traineeship (1968-71)

M. Mellon Foundation Public Health Graduate Student Traineeship (1967-68)

N. United Negro College Fund Scholarship (1961-65)