Our group has a long tradition of innovating and publishing theory and methods in the following areas:
- Identifying idioms of distress across cultures
- Step-by-step guide for idioms of distress research
- Expanding sydemics theory to account for global contexts
- Bridging between medical anthropology and global health
- Applications of consensus, consonance, and residual agreement analysis to understand shared models and within-group variation
- Designing locally-derived scales to measure food insecurity and mental health
Dr. Weaver conducting a minimally-invasive finger stick blood test with a research participant in Oregon.
Dr. Weaver conducting a card-facilitated ranking exercise to explore the social value of food items in Brazil.
Dr. Weaver Interviewing women in India about their experiences managing type 2 diabetes.