U.S. and Non-U.S. Scholars

Fulbright New Century Scholars Program
Overview • Previous NCS Programs • NCS Scholar List • NCS Brochure • 2001-2002

• Senior Fellow, National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
• The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
• Research: Integrative Applied Research in Public Health: Theory and Methods
  

"NCS allowed me to spend six months at Harvard University, where I deliberately chose affiliations outside my comfort zone, which both enhanced the conceptual development and the writing associated with my project. Most particularly I've developed an on-going collaboration with faculty at the Hauser Center for Non-Profit Organizations in the underdeveloped area of practitioner-researcher engagement."

• Professor, School of Public Health
• Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
• Research: International Health and Local Actors: Latin American Public Health During the Second Half of the 20th Century

"NCS has been a fantastic human and learning experience. It has demonstrated that high quality investigations that are at the same time intercultural, interdisciplinary and global are very much necessary and possible. It has also suggested the best means to overcome the problems that still exist in the relationships between international health agencies and less-developed countries. Thanks to NCS, I have met for the first time scholars from Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and other parts of so-called "underdeveloped" countries with problems and challenges that are similar to those of my home country. My research, writing and teaching have become more comparative, policy-oriented and sensitive to the fact that stimulating intercultural awareness is essential in today's world."

• President, Russian Public Health Association
• Professor, School of Social Medicine, Management and Economics of Health Care
• Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia
• Research: Social Aspects of Public Health Challenges in the Period of Globalization: The Case of Russia

"Participation in NCS has contributed to my research objectives, facilitated the exchange of ideas and information with leading members of the global public health community, as well as added perspective and become an important incentive for a multidisciplinary approach to my own research."

• Professor of Law and Ira C. Batman Faculty Fellow
• Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, IN
• Research: Anarchy and Disease: A Study of Public Health in World Politics

"NCS has been critical in allowing me the opportunity to pursue innovative research on global health. Being an NCS scholar has exposed me to the research and perspectives of scholars from around the globe, challenged my assumptions and disciplinary prejudices, and opened new intellectual and professional space for my work on global health issues."

• Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics
  
• Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Research: Healing the "Hood"

"My participation in NCS enabled me to conduct fieldwork in an extraordinary place and time. South Africa is one of the great social laboratories to explore the possibilities of implementing "Hip Hop Activism" among adolescents around pressing health concerns. Challenging intellectual exchange between myself and the diverse group of NCS scholars opened relevant new perspectives on global health as well as professional networks that deepened my research experience."

• Senior Lecturer, School of Social and Political Studies
• University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
• Research: Public Health and Policy Learning

"Participation in NCS has given me access to research facilities and personal contacts of a quality I couldn't have hoped for otherwise. I have learned from fellow NCS scholars that my research may have relevance in countries in which I claim no expertise. Until now, I have worked exclusively in and on problems of health policy in Europe; in effect, I have myself been 'globalized' by my participation in the program. This has given me a new understanding of my subject and the contribution I might make to it."

• Andelot Professor of Demography, Department of Population and International Health
• Harvard School of Public Health, Cambridge, MA
• Research: Combining Local and International Assessments of Women's Health for Policy and Action

"NCS has forced me to re-think my initially demographic and epidemiological viewpoints from the standpoint of other disciplines. Since the numbers of people thinking radically about globalization and health are still quite small, I have had the advantage of finding a critical mass of people for intellectual exchanges and challenges to my own ways of conceptualizing issues. The framework is original and it has been exciting shaping a new program from the ground up. The international mix of minds has been the key to the program's success, forcing those of us in the U.S. to re-think our positions, formed as they have been in conditions of generous resource endowments unknown to other scholars."

• Professor, Department of Anthropology and Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences
• University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, CO
• Research: Globalization, Medical Pluralism and Community Health: The Case of Post Transition Mongolia

"Participation in NCS has brought me in contact with the diverse perspectives of scholars representing different cultures, countries and continents, broadening and enriching my own knowledge of, and interest in, global health. I have incorporated many of the scholars' ideas into my own analytic framework, which shifted my research emphasis away from a sole focus on the local expression of medical pluralism, to a focus on health equity and global health governance issues."

• Director, Institute of Community Empowerment, Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Research: Increasing Community Capacity and Empowering Community Members to Improve the Health and Well-Being of Chiang Mai Hill Tribes and Low-Income Groups in Three Thai Districts

"My participation in NCS has led to an increased awareness of the dark side of globalization and the need to prepare the community people for building a community and social vaccine for combating those negative consequences. I believe that the social vaccine concept will help bring a multiplicity of perspectives and approaches to global health challenges and might be helpful to the south in setting priorities for defining the global health agenda in the future."

• Professor, Epidemiology and Health Services Adjunct in Medicine
• University of Washington, Seattle, WA
• Research: Global and Local Communities of Public Health: Can Disease Control and International Trading Interests be Synchronized?
  

"The NCS scholar network has been an invaluable source of fellowship and peer review for me. The kind of interdisciplinary work this project represents is extremely difficult to realize in the isolated environment of the 'stovepiped' university, and NCS has been a key to overcoming this isolation for me."

• Professor, Department of Political Science
• University of Montana, Missoula, MT
• Research: Transnational Competence and Migrant Health in a Borderless World
  

"Participation in NCS has enriched my understanding of the physical-and mental-health challenges that face migrants and their health care providers, has helped give specific definition to my research questions, and has enhanced the adaptation and application of the transnational competence framework to migrant health care. I expect that sustained interaction with the NCS network of scholars exploring related research interests will continue to inform and inspire my scholarship in the future."

• Professor, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies
• International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India
• Research: A Study of Mortality in the Indian Subcontinent and Some Selected Developed Countries: Perspectives, Contrasts and Challenges

"Participation in NCS activities and interaction with my distinguished colleagues have been very useful for me in acquiring new knowledge and research issues related to my work and have contributed to my achieving my research objectives in a very fruitful manner."

• Professor and Associate Dean, Graduate School, College of Nursing
• Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
• Research: Smoking Control Strategies: A Comparison of Korea and the United States

"Participating in NCS has provided me with much feedback from scholars who have various backgrounds in terms of research content and methods which has enabled me to carry out my own research more fruitfully."

• Assistant Professor, Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
• Research: The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project: A Test for Globalization and Public Health
  

"NCS has made it possible for me to work with three different cohorts of 40 families in Chad and to begin regular data collection in each of three different sites. My research has been enriched by the opportunities the NCS program has provided for exchange with other scholars. I have been introduced to new literatures and resources by scholars from other disciplines. Though my project is on-going, the research conducted during the year of NCS sponsorship has contributed to our understanding of global processes and their impact on human health."

• Senior Researcher, International Centre for Integrative Studies
• Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
• Research: Health Transitions in a Globalizing World: Toward More Disease or Sustained Health?

"The value of scenarios to explore possible futures and provide sound policy-relevant guidance for decision-makers is increasingly and widely recognized. To date, however, a set of global integrated scenarios on future health development has not been generated. While my research has provided the framework for this, it has also benefited greatly from participation in the NCS program within which, hopefully, a set of 'participatory scenarios' will be developed with the help of Fulbright NCS Scholars and an international course on global health will be implemented."

• Director, Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma
• Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
• Research: New Principles and Practices for Recovery of Post-Conflict Societies

"NCS has made possible the convening of the first international policy meeting on the mental health recovery of post-conflict societies, which will lay the groundwork for a major congress in Rome of Ministries of Health from all 60 post-conflict nations that is expected to result in new major guidelines and recommendations."

• Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry
• Makerere University Medical School, Kampala, Uganda
• Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda
• Research: Approaching the Mental Health Problems of War Trauma: A Comparison of Three African Countries That Experienced War-Conflict

"NCS has enabled me to study and globally compare the problem of mass trauma and the mental health of communities to a scale that I could not have done through my own country-specific studies. The problem of mass psycho trauma is now a global problem to which no country is immune but, hopefully, with other NCS colleagues, we can share and suggest global intervention approaches to the problem and formulate currently lacking treatment guidelines for WHO to follow."

• Professor, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
• Columbia University, New York, NY
• Research: Society, Politics and Public Health: A Comparative Analysis

"My NCS experience sensitized me to the global reach and influence of U.S. governmental and industrial policy actors, and I took note of the health implications of that influence within Canada in a way that I might not otherwise have done."

• Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences Chair, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
• University of Yaounde I, Yaounde, Cameroon
• Research: Youths, Globalization and Access to Reproductive Health Care in Cameroon

"NCS has convinced me beyond any doubt that globalization does not necessarily have to impact health negatively. This understanding was facilitated and enriched by the other facets provided by my fellow scholars. Indeed, my research helped me gain insight into the awesome depth and breadth of the mind of the adolescent-how sad that they are not allowed to contribute more. Fulbright
and NCS have enabled me to discover the vast academic culture of America."

• Distinguished Professor of History, History Department
• Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
• Research: Securing Better Survival for Unfavored Groups in the U.S. Population

"Fellow NCSers have been uncommonly generous in giving good advice and
suggestions about how to carry out my project. Their own projects, which are quite varied, have also given me fresh ideas. My project is global in scope, since the 30 countries are distributed on every continent. NCS has pushed me to be more curious about transnational and global influences on health improvements in these 30 countries, today and in the past."

• Director, Community Health and Social Welfare
• National Institute of Public Health, Cuernavaca, Mexico
• Research: Becoming Old in a Context of Disadvantage: The Interplay of Aging, Poverty and Health Among Mexican-Origin People
• Summer Course Coordinator "Globalization and Public Health in Latin America" Cuernavaca, Mexico

"My participation in NCS has given me the unique opportunity to team up with an
outstanding international and interdisciplinary network of professionals with a focus
on global health and my intention is to continue to be an active participant in such a network. NCS has made me more sensitive to the health transitions in the global-local arena and the importance of public health policy at both levels to prevent health inequalities between rich and poor countries, to promote healthy lifestyles and to assure equitable access to health."

• Associate Professor, Health Telematics Unit
• University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
• Research: Global e-Health Policy: From Synthesis to Strategy

"The eclectic nature of the group of NCS Scholars addressing the topic of 'Challenges of Health in a Borderless World' has been instrumental in providing a broader perspective to my own research. It has provided a unique opportunity to become exposed to the thoughts and perspectives of very diverse thinkers from very diverse cultures, and this has served to enrich, clarify, and focus my own thoughts and work."

• Chairman, Council of Ayurveda, Department of Health
• Government of Nepal, Nepal
• Research: Integrating Traditional and Orthodox Medical Systems

"Participation in NCS has brought a new dimension to my research, helped it to acquire the credibility of traditional medical practice, and hopefully supported movement towards a new direction in health care, characterized by more compassion and equity."

• Chairperson, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
• Hopital de Bicetre, Le Kremlin Bicetre, France
• Research: International Program on Environment and Reproduction

"The Fulbright NCS initiative has been an excellent opportunity to discover a new way of thinking and of working, both by considering public health questions at a global level and in a different transversal perspective."

• Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
• Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• Research: Finding a Common Language: Bioethics and HIV/AIDS Research in Uganda

"My participation in NCS has introduced me to a broad range of distinguished scholars and potential mentors at a critical time in my own career as a young scholar. I developed a close collaborative working partnership with another NCS scholar that will certainly continue after the NCS-GH group officially concludes. Since the Fulbright program is well-respected all over the world, its good name guaranteed that my fellow academic colleagues overseas trusted and respected my research project-this was especially important due to the sensitive nature of my research topic."

• Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology
• University of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
• Research: Communication for Social Change: A Longitudinal Analysis of Social Networks, Ideation and Maternal-Neonatal Health Behavior in Ethnic Timor, Indonesia

"My participation in NCS has provided me with new, rich, intellectual and academic input into my research methodology and sharpened its analysis so that the results might advocate better health policies in the health reform process in Indonesia. Although the research in its scope is local, the issue of gender empowerment in connection with achieving health equity and access for the poorest people through good governance is a substantial issue worldwide."

• Professor and Chair, Department of Social Sciences
• Dunaujvaros Polytechnic, Dunaujvaros, Hungary
• Research: Quality of Life of Roma: Cultural
  and Social Determinants of Health

"Participation in NCS has enabled me to approach the issues related to my study in a most productive way through the unique opportunity of communication with highly qualified and motivated colleagues; and the development of a very special feeling of responsibility."

• Senior Lecturer, Department of Educational Psychology
• Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, Potchefstroom, South Africa
• Research: The Development of Indicators for Health
  Promoting Schools

"My participation as a member of the NCS Program, interacting with the other international members as well as with people from the local Southern African settings, can best be described by the indigenous African (Zulu) maxim 'umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu' which can be translated as 'a person is a person through other persons.' At root, this phrase communicates a basic respect, empathy and compassion for others-all characteristics amongst the members of the NCS Program. For me it is an honor and privilege to be associated with the New Century Scholars."

• Professor and Director, Division of Community Medicine
  Professor of Sociology, Department of Family and Community Medicine
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
• Research: Global Trade and Public Health Policies

"My participation in NCS has facilitated numerous research activities, other grants (including a Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation), articles, and networking with scholars and activities who are working on the problems of global trade and public health."

• Independent Public Health Researcher, China
• Research: Abstinence-Only Program in a Borderless World

"NCS has provided me a unique chance to work with a group of important scholars on globalization and health. As an AIDS activist, I have found that a combination of international reaction and local action has played a very important role in changing our government's policy and pushing it to be more open in the fight against HIV/AIDS."