SARAH ORNDORFF, PhD
Dr. Orndorff currently teaches Global Health Methods in the Department of Global Health at George Washington University. She recently finished her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research in New York, New York from which she also received her Master’s in the same subject. Her Bachelor’s was from UVa, also in anthropology. Her doctoral and longheld concentrations were in gender studies, political economy, reproductive health, including the ‘politics of reproduction’, and more generally, medical anthropology. Dr. Orndorff’s dissertation research focused on public health policy related to infant mortality within the U.S and is currently under contract with Lexington Press. Publication date is scheduled for spring 2008. Her current research involves not only the above but also health disparities in the US, particularly in Washington, DC and within the context of infant mortality. She is also currently researching intimate partner violence in the former Soviet country of Albania and has an edited volume under consideration with Rutgers University Press on intimate partner violence as a component of the Millenium Development Goals.
Dr. Orndorff is a longtime member of the American Anthropological Association and two of its subsidiaries, the Society for Medical Anthropology and the Council on Anthropology and Reproduction (CAR). She will serve as Chair of CAR in the fall of 2007. While specializing in the qualitative components of the Global Health Methods courses at GWU, she also has a unique background in quantitative analysis with five years experience in institutional research and student demographics at two American universities.
