Discipline(s):
Medicine, Public Health, Medical Anthropology
Area(s) of Expertise:
HIV Prevention, Violence Prevention, New Media
E-Mail:
mehret@truthaids.org
Background:
Mehret Mandefro is a physician/anthropologist that uses film as a medium of ethnography. As a public health trained physician her primary research interests are the connections between human rights and health, HIV prevention program development, and translation efforts targeting marginalized communities. She has worked as a public health practitioner in Kenya, Botswana, and South Africa on issues of access to care, HIV treatment adherence, and health workers training. Her prior anthropologic fieldwork was conducted in Ethiopia analyzing HIV-positive women’s experiences with stigma, and the South Bronx. Her internal medicine residency research project is the subject of a feature-length documentary entitled All of Us that attempts to show how gender equity relates to the HIV epidemic in the South Bronx and Ethiopia. As a Health and Society Scholar, Mehret will be advancing film and digital media as a method to teach and communicate about societal determinants of health. The teaching and outreach arm of her digital media work is featured on the website: www.truthaids.org. She completed her internal medicine residency at Montefiore in the Primary Care Program. She received her M.D. from Harvard University, MSc in the Public Health of Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and A.B. in Anthropology from Harvard University.
Journal Articles:
Click here for a list of Mehret Mandefro's available publications in PubMed.
