Dr. Elizabeth
Cartwright, RN, PhD
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, and Co-Project
Director, Idaho Community HealthCorps Community Health
Promotoras in association with the Hispanic Health Projects,
Dept. of Anthropology, ISU, Pocatello, Idaho.
Dr. Cartwright is a Medical Anthropologist with many
years of experience working in health-related research
in Latin America and the U.S. She is currently
an Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at
Idaho State University and is currently working
with the Mexican farmworker community in SE Idaho
where she directs the Hispanic Health Projects—a
bilingual, binational team of researchers and community
members focusing on diabetes, cancer, nutrition and
domestic violence in the Hispanic community near Pocatello,
Idaho.
Her past research includes anthropological studies
among the Amuzgo Indians of Oaxaca, Mexico focusing
on pesticide exposures. Other experience
includes consulting on dengue control programs sponsored
by the Rockefeller Foundation in the Yucatan, Mexico,
Women’s health issues in Northern Mexico and
Maternal Infant Health on the Navajo Indian Reservation
in Tuba City, Arizona and Shiprock New Mexico.
Dr. Cartwright has numerous publications in the field
of social science/medicine. She has also
been an adjunct faculty member of the research institute
the Colegio de Sonora, in Hermosillo, Mexico and is
an adjunct faculty member at the Institute for Rural
Health Studies at Idaho State University and visiting
academic at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
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