Mark Edberg, PhD - Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Health Services-George Washington University
Dr. Edberg is an applied and academic anthropologist with over 17 years of significant experience in social research, primarily in public health. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health, George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, with a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology, where he teaches courses in social and behavioral theory, qualitative research methods, and the relationships between culture and health. He has been Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Project Director on numerous studies and projects, for the National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, and other agencies, through which he has been involved in a wide range of cutting-edge research, and health promotion program evaluation and development. This has included: research on HIV/AIDS risk behavior, substance use and domestic violence among immigrant Southeast Asian populations; research and development of an evaluation data system for all grant programs funded by the U.S. Office of Minority Health, Department of Health and Human Services (this project won a Best Practices in Evaluation award); research on the U.S.-Mexico border on violence, risk and the image of the narcotrafficker (the subject of a recently-published book); evaluation of HIV/AIDS risk behavior interventions among crack and injection drug users; research and development of strategies for reaching out-of-treatment drug users (for HIV testing) and low-income Hispanic/Latino women towards the goal of increasing use of prenatal care and reducing infant mortality; ethnographic field research on HIV/AIDS and substance abuse risk among runaway/homeless youth; and violence prevention program development in communities across the country and, particularly, with a group of U.S.-Mexico border communities as part of a joint U.S.-Mexico initiative. Dr. Edberg has also done work in social marketing with high-risk populations, participated in development of national health surveys, and, under USAID contract, worked in Honduras and Puerto Rico as part of a democracy development project. Dr. Edberg holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Virginia, as well as Masters degrees in both Applied Anthropology and International Relations.