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Elanah Uretski, PhD Elanah Uretsky is a medical anthropologist. Her current work examines the impact of China’s contemporary climate of male sexuality on its burgeoning HIV epidemic. Dr. Uretsky is also currently working on a manuscript titled “Mixing Business and Pleasure: The Politics of Work, Sex, and HIV/AIDS in Post-Mao China”, which discusses the role of governance in the development and administration of China’s HIV epidemic. Dr. Uretsky collaborates on the China Multidisciplinary AIDS Prevention Training Program, an ICOHRTA funded program between the Chinese Centers for Disease Control, UCLA, and Yale University that provides training to HIV/AIDS researchers in China. She is also a Board member for the Beijing Gender Health and Education Institute, an organization funded by the Ford Foundation to conduct research and outreach to gay men in China. Professor Uretsky has been working and doing research on China for 15 years. She originally pursued a master’s degree at the Elliot School focusing on China. She also received an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and her Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. She has conducted extensive ethnographic research on HIV/AIDS in southwestern China and Beijing and has served as consultant to numerous international organizations conducting HIV/AIDS programs in China. Dr. Uretsky is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health. She is Director of the department’s course on Comparative Regional Determinants of Health. She is also the coordinator of the MA/MPH program sponsored by SPHHS and the Elliot School of International Affairs. |
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