Bird flu — understanding the employee- and country-specific social and cultural factors that will impede the prevention, treatment and containment of an outbreak

Author's Biography

Michael Anastario has seven years of experience working in evaluation research, and is currently a Research Associate at the Center for Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine. He specialises in quantitative methodology, and has worked with nonprofits, NGOs and academic researchers on various public health evaluation projects. He received his BA, MA and PhD in Sociology from Boston College.

Lynn Lawry is a specialist in internal medicine, women’s health, and epidemiology. She is currently an Associate Director and Director of Research for the Center of Disaster and Humanitarian Assistance Medicine in Washington, DC in addition to being the Director of the Initiative on Global Women’s Health in the Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School and an Associate at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Dr Lawry has 15 years of humanitarian aid and complex disaster experience in more than a dozen countries worldwide. Her research focuses on the health consequences of human rights violations in places like Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Darfur, Iraq. She is the author of many publications including book chapters and journal articles relating to these health and human rights issues.