Medical Health

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NATALIE PORTER, PH.D.

***** ***** **., *** *****, CA 92128

603-***-**** – ********@*****.***

Cultural Anthropologist - Medical Anthropology & Public Health Medical anthropologist, community organizer, and educator with experience collaborating with multiple stakeholders to generate insights that improve cultural competency and user outcomes in health services. Additional areas of expertise include: Professional Experience

Cultural Anthropologist. University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN 7/2015-present

• Carry out comprehensive, outcomes based research to understand how the design of health programs and interventions align with user needs in cross-cultural contexts

• Conduct more than 150 qualitative interviews, 40 surveys, 15 focus groups and over 3 years of ethnography with various stakeholders in the U.S. Vietnam, and the U.K., including: health professionals, policymakers, scientists, and health-seeking populations

• Liaise with biomedical practitioners and complementary / alternative healers to improve communication with the aim of delivering culturally competent services to end users

(vulnerable populations in Vietnam and underrepresented populations in the U.S.)

• Manage over 20 international assessments of health delivery systems in multicultural contexts: develop interview and observation protocols, lead data analysis, identify and reach target outputs

• Synthesize insights for various audiences in presentations, lectures, articles, blog posts, chapters, and a book forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press

• Design and teach courses to pre-med students in cultural competence and medical anthropology: lecture, lead discussions, evaluate, and supervise research for over 200 students per year

Lead Anthropologist. University of Oxford, Oxford UK 2/2012-1/2018

• Designed and executed a multi-year study that identified the key challenges cross- functional stakeholders face when developing medical applications (drugs, devices, interventions) for multicultural populations

• Created outreach platforms for collaboration between drug developers, laboratory scientists, policymakers, lawyers, investors, and vulnerable communities, in order to foster culturally competent health systems delivery

• Cross-Cultural Communication

• Program Development

• Community Outreach

• Health Communications

• Strategic Partnerships

• Evidence Synthesis

• Monitoring and Evaluation

• Ethnography

• Focus Groups & Interviews

• Expert Panel Methods

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• Convened with researchers across more than 15 universities and industries to generate insights that redressed health disparities and improved access to medical technologies

• Synthesized research for diverse audiences in websites, academic publications, conferences, stakeholder meetings, and final reports

• Developed best practice guidelines for introducing biosecurity measures to interdisciplinary, international teams of laboratory scientists

• Monitored and evaluated project’s adherence to donor requirements and targets Cultural Consultant. Partnership on Human & Avian Flu, Vietnam 10/2009-6/2012

• Strategized two outcomes-based behavior change communications projects that generated data on the behaviors, attitudes, and experiences of at-risk populations

• Acted as internal expert on trends in local health seeking behaviors, and communicated findings to national and international health organizations

• Advised senior health programmers on the development of communications materials and hygiene applications that aligned with user needs in various cultural contexts

• Liaised with transnational donors, private sector, government, and regional partners in Southeast Asia to improve collaboration for rapid-response health interventions

(Vietnamese Government, WHO, CDC, FAO, UNICEF)

• Assessed the cultural diversity of international health providers, identifying resources, overlaps, and gaps, and developing recommendations for streamlining activities and improving cultural competence

• Developed protocols for qualitative health marketing research that encouraged local buy- in through community outreach activities (e.g. participatory risk mapping) Qualitative Researcher. University of Wisconsin, Madison 9/2004-2/2012

• Anthropology of Global Health Science, Technology & Medicine Agricultural Economics

• Designed, implemented, and analyzed ethnographic research to improve the uptake of transnational infectious disease measures in Vietnam

• Synthesized insights on local farmers’ agricultural practices to inform the redesign of farm products for Southeast Asian markets

Education

Ph.D. & M.A. Cultural Anthropology. University of Wisconsin, Madison

• Grants from American Council of Learned Societies, Social Science Research Council, Fulbright Foundation, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Blakemore Freeman Foundation

• Prizes: Society for Medical Anthropology – Science, Technology & Medicine Paper Prize, J.R.W. Smail Dissertation Award, University of Wisconsin, Madison B.A. Anthropology & Global Studies. University of California, Santa Barbara

• Distinction in the Major Award, Department of Anthropology

• Summa cum laude: 3.9 GPA

Skills

Languages: Vietnamese-fluent; Spanish-Advanced

Software: Microsoft Suite, Atlas TI, Adobe Suite, NVivo, SPSS

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