People


Dean, Division of Graduate Medical Sciences and Program Co-Director
        Carl Franzblau, PhD

Program Co-Director
        Linda L. Barnes, PhD, MTS, MA

Program Assistant Director
         Lance Laird, ThD, MDiv

Fieldwork and Field Practicum Program Manager
         Justine de Marrais, BS

Program Steering Committee
        Linda L. Barnes, PhD, MTS, MA, Co-Chair (Family Medicine and Pediatrics)
        Carl Franzblau, PhD (Biochemistry)
        Lance D. Laird, ThD (Family Medicine)
        Lee Strunin, PhD (School of Public Health)
        Barbara Bokhour, PhD (School of Public Health)
        

Faculty and Administrative Staff

The program draws on the expertise of its own faculty (Barnes and Laird) and staff (de Marrais), who work on a range of theoretical, ethnographic, and applied initiatives, as well as on the wide range of faculty expertise represented at the greater medical campus and the Charles River Campus. The program's faculty work in close collaboration with faculty on both campuses, as well as with community groups and practitioners.

Each entering student will be assigned a major advisor from within the program, who will help them design a program tailored to their intellectual, personal, and professional goals, and will continue to advise them throughout their two-year program. The advisor will also help the student locate additional mentors specializing in the student's concentration interests. By the end of the second semester, students are expected to select two Associate Advisors who will serve on the student's Final Project committee.

Each student's primary advisor must be a member of the faculty of the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences. Strong relationships currently exist between the faculty and staff of the Boston Healing Landscape Project, and faculty and program directors in the School of Public Health, and the Charles River Campus Departments of Religion, Anthropology, and Sociology. In addition to strengthening these relationships and related collabora tions, the proposed degree will also foster collaboration with the Departments of History, African American Studies, and East Asian Studies. These interdisciplinary, cross-campus bridges will help the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences meet the university's goals of building such collaborations.