LINDA WHITEFORD

INFECTIOUS DISEASE
S A RA H TAY LO R

SCHOOLING & DEGREES

BA Anthropology, Beloit
College
MPH, University of Texas
MA Anthropology, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Ph.D Anthropology,
University of WisconsinMilwaukee

WORK & CLASSES

Currently she works at the University of Southern
Florida
Teaches mostly graduate level classes
She is teaching a class on infectious/contagious
diseases
Adjunct Academic Appointment: College of Public
Health: Global Health and Community and Family
Health Departments, Patel School of Global
Sustainability, and USF Honors College

RESEARCH
Applied medical anthropology, public health,
health care delivery, reproduction, disasters and
health, political economy of health, international
health, infectious disease
Water-washed and water-borne diseases, global
reproductive health, and disaster mitigation and
recovery
Caribbean, Latin America
Fluent in Spanish
Funding from the National Science Foundation

RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Global Health in Times of Violence, Barbara Rylko-Bauer,
Linda Whiteford, and Paul Farmer (editors), (2009)
Primary Health Care in Cuba: The Other Revolution. Linda
M Whiteford and Laurence Branch, (2008)
The Medical Anthropology of Water, in Blackwell Medical
Anthropology Companion, with Cecilia Vindrola Pardos
Cholera, dengue fever, water policy

Reproductive Rights in No Woman's Land: Politics and

Humanitarian Assistance, with Aimee Eden, in
Reproduction, Globalization and the State, (2010)
Failure to Protect, Failure to Provide: Refugee Reproductive
Rights, in Global Health in Times of Violence, (2009)

ACHIEVEMENTS & AWARDS

Vice Provost for program development and review
Consulted for the World Bank, the World Health
Organization, and advises on global health care policy
President for the Society of Applied Anthropology in
2002
USF Women in Research and Philanthropy Award in
2007
Santa Clara University Visiting Scholar of the Year in
2002
George and Mary Foster Distinguished Lecturer Award
from Southern Methodist University in 2002

QUESTIONS
What made you interested in so many different
topics?
What made you decide to focus specifically on
water-borne diseases?
How did you get involved with disaster recovery?