Tufts University

Institute for Global Leadership

International Resilience Program

Curriculum

 MENTORSHIP

  • Professor Almedom serves as MALD Thesis Advisor at The Fletcher School. 
  • Dr. Almedom also serves as Preceptor to MPH candidates; and provides research advice and support to graduate and professional students in Arts & Sciences (department of Urban Environment Planning and Policy), engineering, nutrition.
  • 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. The book is also available in French, Spanish, and Arabic. The English original will be re-released by Practical Action in December 2010.
  • Professor Almedom remains core faculty member of the International Relations Program,and teaches and advises in the Community Health Program, School of Arts and Sciences.

 

COURSES 2010-2011

Fall

  • Graduate Research Seminar: "Resilience Audits in International Humanitarian Policy and 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 (DHP 249)
  • Research Internships

 

WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & GUEST LECTURES

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

 

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 representative sample.

 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.

 

PEER-REVIEWED 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

 

ESSAYS (Sole author)

Kestenberg, C. (2008) Commentary - Remittances: The Health and Well-being of Senders and Receivers. TuftScope 7: 13-14.

Murray, S. J. (2007) Public Health Consequences and Responses in Civil War: Lessons from Epidemiology Research in Guinea-Bissau. War & Health December 19.

Benson, M. (2007) Insecure Environments: The Missing Piece? In "Humanitarian Reform: Fulfilling Its Promise?" Forced Migration Review, 29: 20-21.

Klein, R. (2004) What's in a label? Learning from the HIV-TB deadly symbiosis. African Health Sciences 4: 203-204.

Chen, C. (2004) Rebellion against the polio vaccine in Nigeria: Implications for humanitarian policy. African Health Sciences 4: 205-207.

Hoffman, S.Z. (2004) HIV/AIDS in Cuba: A model for care or an ethical dilemma? African Health Sciences 4: 208-209.

REPORTS

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