Portrait: Susan Reynolds Whyte
Research Interests
My areas of interest include family relations, lifeworlds, the management of misfortune, health and health care systems (HIV/AIDS, disability, medicines, health promotion), schooling, social differentiation, development policies and ethnographic method. I have done extensive fieldwork in East Africa.
Susan Reynolds Whyte
Prof. Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Education
Ph.D. University of Washington, 1973
Selected Assignments
Leader of Enhancement of Research Capacity Programme (Danida) on interactions between communities and health systems in Uganda, 1994-2008
Leader, Danish National Research School of Anthropology and Ethnography, 2001-4
Deputy leader, Centre of International Health and Development (CISU: Center for International Sundhed og Udvikling), Copenhagen University, 2004-present
Selected Publications
Social Lives of Medicines (first author), Cambridge Univ. Press, 2002; Book
Disability in Local and Global Worlds (co-editor), Univ. of California Press, 2007. Book
Generations in Africa (co-editor) LIT Verlag. 2008. Book
Articles in peer-reviewed journals: Africa, Man, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Social Science & Medicine, Health Policy, Health Policy and Planning, Tropical Medicine & International Health, Int. J. of Health Planning and Management, and others. Chapters in international peer-reviewed anthologies.