CURRICULUM VITAE Elanah Uretsky The George Washington University Departments of Global Health, Anthropology, and Elliott School of International Affairs PERSONAL DATA Name: Home Address: Elanah Malkah Uretsky 4911 46 th Street, NW Washington, DC 20016 Home Telephone: (202) 758-3330 Office Telephone: (202) 994-6803 Fax number: (202) 994-1850 e-mail address: euretsky@gwu.edu DOB: March 26, 1969 Place of birth: New York Citizenship: USA EDUCATION: New York University, B.S., Economics and East Asian Studies (1986-1990) The George Washington University, Elliott School of International Affairs, M.A. International Relations/East Asian Studies (1994-1997) Harvard University, M.A. East Asian Languages and Civilizations (1997-2000) Columbia University, Ph.D., Sociomedical Sciences/Medical Anthropology (2000-2007) Dissertation Mixing Business with Pleasure: Masculinity and Male Sexual Culture in Urban China in the Era of HIV/AIDS Yale University, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, National Institutes of Mental Health Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2008) CHINESE LANGUAGE TRAINING University of California, Berkeley (1992) Nanjing University (1993) Peking University (1994)
EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE: The George Washington University, Assistant Professor, Global Health, Anthropology, and International Affairs (2009-Present) Harvard University, Committee on Social Studies, Senior Thesis Advisor (2008-2009) Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Teaching Fellow (1999-2000) SOCIETIES AND HONORS: Professional Memberships AAA American Anthropological Association (member) AAS Association of Asian Studies (member) SMA Society for Medical Anthropology (member) AARG AIDS and Anthropology Research Group (member) Manuscript Review Global Public Health Culture, Health, and Sexuality Health Promotion International ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES AND UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES Departmental Research Committee (member) Curriculum Committee (member) Director MA/MPH Dual Degree Program School of Public Health and Health Services Admissions Committee (member) Decanal Search Process Committee (member) Elliott School of International Affairs International Development Studies Program Committee (member) Grant Review George Washington University Facilitating Funds Competition George Washington University Department of Anthropology Cotlow Award Center Memberships Center for Global Health Sigur Center for Asian Studies District of Columbia Developmental Center for AIDS Research (DC d-cfar)
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS Courses Taught and Developed PubH 332 Comparative Regional Determinants of Health (course director) PubH 340 Global Health Study, Design and Ethics (course director) PubH 341 Global Health Data Collection (course director) PubH 341 Redeveloped as Global Health Qualitative Data Collection and Data Analysis (course director) PubH 342 Global Health Data Analysis (course co-instructor, taught 3 out of 14 lectures) Courses in which I participate as a guest lecturer PubH 101 Introduction to Public Health and Health Services (lecture on global health) PubH 185 Impact of Culture on Health (lecture on cultural aspects of HIV in China) PubH 321 Global Health Frameworks (lecture on social organization of health) PubH 402 Foundations of Public Health Leadership and Practice: Doctoral Seminar (session discussion on medical anthropology) PubH 416 Doctoral Research Methods (lecture on participant observation) PSc 236 Political Economy of Developing Areas (session on health and development) CONSULTANT APPOINTMENTS Paid 2010 Schoepf, Brookie, Suzanne Leclerc-Madlala, Elanah Uretsky, and Clare Kelly. A Review of Global Health Projects that Have Successfully Challenged Social Norms (sub-contractor on World Bank project) 2009 Emerging Markets Group, Arlington, VA. Prepared materials on China s HIV epidemic. 2006 Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB)/Harvard University, Global Equity Initiative, Yunnan, China. Needs assessment on AIDS orphans and vulnerable children 2005 Populations Services International, Yunnan, China. Needs assessment research on men s vulnerability to HIV infection 2004 Family Health International, Beijing, China. Needs assessment on female commercial sex workers 2004 World Vision International, Ruili, China. Strategic planning and needs assessment
Unpaid 2008-2009 Yale University, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, CT. Developed and co-taught research methods workshop for students and staff at Chinese CDC in Beijing. 2007-2008 Institute for Community Research, Hartford, CT. High-risk Establishments and Women s HIV Prevention in Southern China (project participation as part of postdoctoral fellowship) 2004 Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS/Getty Images, China. Technical consultant on men s vulnerability to HIV infection. ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2010 George Washington University, Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Summer Faculty Research Fellowship 2004-2006 National Institutes of Mental Health, National Research Service Award for Individual Pre-doctoral Scholars (F31MH069075) 2003-2004 Saskawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund, Columbia University, Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2002 Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Student travel grant 2001/2002 Weatherhead Fellows Program Training Grant, Columbia University, East Asian Institute 2000-2002 Columbia University, Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Graduate Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistant PUBLICATIONS Papers in peer-reviewed journals 2010 The Risk of Success: Cultural Determinants of Chronic Disease and Sexually Transmitted Infections among Urban Chinese Men" Health Promotion International (forthcoming) 2008 Mobile Men with Money : The Socio-cultural and Politico-economic Context of High-risk Behavior among Wealthy Businessmen and Government Officials in Urban China. Culture, Health, and Sexuality. Vol. 10 no. 8.
Papers in non-peer-reviewed journals 2003 Research Note: The Importance of Research on Male Sexuality and Masculinity for Effective HIV/AIDS Prevention Programs. Yale-China Health Journal, vol. 2. Book Reviews 2010 Book Review: Red Lights: The Lives of Sex Workers in Post-Socialist China, by Tiantian Zheng. In American Ethnologist, 38(1). 2007 Book Review. Sex and Sexuality in China, edited by Elaine Jeffreys. In The China Journal, July 2007. Other Publications 2007 Promoting Dialogue Between Antrhopologists and NGOs Anthropology News 2004 Accessing Psychosocial Support through Positive Art. Global AIDSLink,, February/March 2004. PRESENTATIONS Regional Mixing Business with Pleasure: The Politics of Work, Sex, and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao Urban Male Culture. Presented at New England Conference of the Association of Asian Studies. November 5-6, 2005. National Working into the Night: The Role of Sex in Work in Urban China. Presented at 108 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 2-6, 2009. Looking for Good Governance : Intersections of Governance and Health in the Global Arena. Presented at Medical Anthropology at the Intersections: Celebrating50 Years of Interdisciplinarity, Yale University, September 24-27, 2009. Lost in Translation: Modifying Best Practices for HIV Prevention for a Community in Southwest China. Presented at 106 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 28-December, 2007. Mobile Men with Money: Spreading Vulnerability to HIV through Contemporary Cultures of Male Sexuality and Masculinity in Urban China. Presented at 105 th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, November 15-19, 2006.
Risking it all: The Vulnerability for HIV Infection Among Middle-Class Men in Urban China. Presented at 134 th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November, 2006. International Releasing Women from their Role as Vectors of Infection by Placing Men into the Paradigm of Sex Work. Invited Presentation Sex Work in Asia: Health, Agency, and Sexuality. Harvard University, October 1-2, 2010. Harm Reduction in a Foreign Land: Negotiating a Local Response to HIV/AIDS in Southwestern China. Presented at 16 th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, China, July 27-31, 2009. New China, New Life. Sex Included: Private Lives and Public Desires in Urban Post-Mao China. Presented at Second International Conference on Sexualities in China, Institute of Sexuality and Gender, Renmin University, Beijing, China, June 18-21, 2009. Mixing Business with Pleasure: The Politics of Work, Sex, and HIV Risk among Men in Contemporary Urban China. International Conference on Sexualities in China, Institute of Sexuality and Gender, Renmin University, June 18-21, 2007. Sexual Networks in Contemporary Urban China: Going Beyond Identities of Female Commercial Sex Workers and Clients of Sex Workers as Vulnerable Populations. Invitation to an Expert Consultation Promoting Standards for Socio-cultural Research on the Issues of HIV/AIDS and Trafficking. UNESCO, September 19-21, 2005, Bangkok, Thailand. Increasing Vulnerability for HIV Infection among the Mosuo of Yunnan Province. Presented at the 6 th Asia- Pacific Social Sciences and Medicine Conference. October 14-18, 2002. Invited Lectures Looking at the Role of Work in Sex in Urban China for Application into HIV Prevention Programs. Invited Lecture, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Global Health Fellows Program, Washington, DC, December 14, 2009. Henan Blood Sales and Beyond: China s AIDS Epidemics. Invited Lecture. Boston University, Center for International Health. March 8, 2002. The Uses of Medical Anthropology Theory and Technique for Research on Reproductive Health. Invited Lecture. Yunnan Reproductive Health Research Association (Kunming, China). July 12, 2001.
SERVICE TO COMMUNITY Unpaid 2007-Present Beijing Gender Health Education Institute, Beijing, China. Board member 2004-Present Neng Guan Performing Arts Training Center, Ruili, China. Technical advisor on HIV/AIDS 2004 Ruili Women and Children s Development Center, Ruili, China. Program development