Meet the Presenters
Cathy Banwell, Ph.D.
ANU College of Health & Medicine
Cathy Banwell completed a MA in social anthropology at Auckland University followed by a PhD in the Department of Community Medicine at Melbourne University. She is now located at National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH), in the Research School of Population Health (RSPH).
Cathy's research interests include socio-cultural contributions to public health; temporal dimensions of health; consumption and risk relating to food, alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use; reproductive health, family and social issues of women who use illicit drugs or have HCV. Her most significant contribution to public health research has been to bring social science theories and research methods to the development of explanations for new patterns of epidemiological risks and outcomes, including the rise of obesity in Australia and Thailand. She teaches qualitative research analysis at the post-graduate level.
Over the past 5 years, Cathy has been graduate-convenor and then delegated authority in the RSPH. Through these activities and her post-graduate teaching she has developed an abiding interest in improving the post-graduate student experience.
(Source: http://www.anu.edu.au/about/governance/committees/dr-cathy-banwell Links to an external site.)
Lucia Guerra-Reyes, Ph.D.
Indiana University Bloomington-School of Public Health
Lucia Guerra-Reyes is a medical anthropologist and interdisciplinary researcher. She investigate the complexities of access to sexual and reproductive health and care for marginalized communities. She is interested in understanding how national policies of culturally appropriate care are enacted at the local level; how health care providers view their role in extending care to under-served communities; and how women make decisions about their reproductive lives.
Lucia trained in socio-cultural anthropology at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Peru (PUCP), graduating with a BA in Social Sciences in 1997. She completed her Professional Title (Licenciatura) in Anthropology in 2001 at the PUCP. She obtained an MA in Gender, Sexuality and Reproductive Health from the Departament of Public Health and Administration at the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in 2006. In 2013 she graduated from a joint PhD in Anthropology and MPH in Behavioral and Community Health Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh.
(Source: http://pages.iu.edu/~luguerra/index.html Links to an external site.)
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