MENTORSHIP

• Professor Almedom chairs the academic advisory committee of PhD student Ayron Strauch (WSSS-NIH Fellow) in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Biology department; and serves as MALD Thesis Advisor of Evelyn Brensinger, Rebecca Perlmutter, and co-advisor of Alice Taylor, John Parker, and Laura Kuhl at The Fletcher School. Dr. Almedom also offers research advice and support to graduate and professional students in the other Tufts schools including engineering, nutrition, and medicine/public health upon request.

• Dr. Almedom continues to serve as core faculty of the cross-school interdisciplinary graduate program Water: Systems, Science, and Society where her book Hygiene Evaluation Procedures remains set text for WSSS/MPH courses.

• Professor Almedom remains core faculty member of the International Relations Program, Tufts University's largest undergraduate major; advising also Community Health students and others in the School of Arts and Sciences.

COURSES 2009-2010

Fall

• Graduate Research Seminar: "International Humanitarian Policy and Global Public Health" (DHP-P216)

• Graduate and upper level undergraduate research Seminar: "Social Capital and Mental Health" (CH190)

These seminars are open to Tufts MPH candidates and graduate students from other schools, including Harvard School of Public Health and the Kennedy School of Government.

Spring

• Directed Study

• Research Internships

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & GUEST LECTURES

• University Seminar "Childhood and Youth Development:  International Perspectives on Children in Exceptionally Difficult Circumstances" (CIS201)

•  Water: Systems, Science, and Society "Integrated Water Resource Management"
  

• Public Health Engineering (ES-27)

PUBLICATIONS 

Professor Almedom's graduate and undergraduate research colleagues, students, advisees and interns at Tufts engaged in research projects are published as co-authors and in some cases sole authors  - below is a diverse sample.

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

Glandon, D.M., Muller, J., Almedom, A.M. (2008) Resilience in post-Katrina New Orleans Louisiana: A preliminary study African Health Sciences 8 (S): 21-27.

Strauch, A.M., Muller, J. M., Almedom, A.M. (2008) Exploring the dynamics of social ecological resilience in East and West Africa: Preliminary evidence from Tanzania and Niger. African Health Sciences 8 (S): 28-35.

Almedom, A.M. and Glandon, D. (2007) Resilience is not the absence of PTSD anymore than health is the absence of disease. Journal of Loss and Trauma 12: 127-143.
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Almedom, A. M., Tesfamichael, B., Mohammed, Z.S., Muller, J., Mascie-Taylor, N., Alemu, Z. (2005) "Hope" makes sense in Eritrean sense of coherence, but "loser" does not. Journal of Loss and Trauma 10(5): 433-451.
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Almedom, A.M., Tesfamichael, B., Mohammed, Z.S., Mascie-Taylor, N., Muller, J., Alemu, Z. (2005) Prolonged displacement may compromise resilience in Eritrean mothers. African Health Sciences 5: 310-314.
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Samuel, R., Almedom, A.M., Hagos, G., Albin, S., Mutungi, A. (2005) Promotion of hand washing as a measure of quality of care and prevention of hospital- acquired infections in Eritrea: The Keren study. African Health Sciences 5: 4-13.
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Levinson, F. J., Mehra, S., Levinson, D., Chauhan, A. K., Koppe, G., Bence, B., Almedom, A. M. (2004) Morinda revisited: changes in nutritional well-being and gender differences after 30 years of rapid economic growth in rural Punjab, India. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 25:221-227.

Almedom, A.M., Tesfamichael, B., Yacob, A., Teklehaimanot, K., Debretsion, Z., Beyene, T., Kuhn, K., Alemu, Z. (2003) Examining maternal psychosocial well being in Eritrea: Application of participatory methods and tools of investigation and analysis in ‘complex emergency’ settings. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 81: 360-366.
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ESSAYS (Single author)

Kestenberg, C. (2008) Commentary - Remittances: The Health and Well-being of Senders and Receivers. TuftScope 7: 13-14.
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Murray, S. J. (2007) Public Health Consequences and Responses in Civil War: Lessons from Epidemiology Research in Guinea-Bissau. War & Health December 19. Read the essay here

Benson, M. (2007) Insecure Environments: The Missing Piece? In "Humanitarian Reform: Fulfilling Its Promise?" Forced Migration Review, 29: 20-21. http://www.fmreview.org/FMRpdfs/FMR29/20-21.pdf
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Klein, R. (2004) What's in a label? Learning from the HIV-TB deadly symbiosis. African Health Sciences 4: 203-204.
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Chen, C. (2004) Rebellion against the polio vaccine in Nigeria: Implications for humanitarian policy. African Health Sciences 4: 205-207.
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Hoffman, S.Z. (2004) HIV/AIDS in Cuba: A model for care or an ethical dilemma? African Health Sciences 4: 208-209.
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BOOK CHAPTERS

 Almedom, A.M., Brensinger, E. A., Adam, G. (2010) "Resilience discourse as a counter narrative to vulnerability and social suffering." in Hannah Bradby and Gillian Lewando Hundt  (Eds.) Global Perspectives on War, Gender and Health: The Sociology and Anthropology of  Suffering, pp. 127-145. Ashgate.

Almedom, A. M. and Glandon, D. (2007) "Social Capital and Mental Health: An updated interdisciplinary review of primary evidence". in Kawachi, I., Subramanian, S. V. & Kim, D. (Eds.) Social Capital and Health, pp. 191-214. Springer.

REPORTS

Murray, S. J. (with Peter Woodrow)(2008) International Peace and Prosperity Project - Guinea-Bissau Project Review. CDA Collaborative Learning Projects, Cambridge.
Download the Report here