T. S. Harvey
Associate Professor (Medical and Linguistic Anthropology -- Global Public Health, Environmental Protection, Medical Communication, Risk, and Misinformation)
"In our global-local world of the 21st century, our interconnectivity is much more than virtual — viruses travel without visas, bacteria know no borders and disease is indiscriminate" TSH
Dr. Harvey is not accepting graduate students.
With training in medical and linguistic anthropology, Dr. Harvey’s research and interests focus expanding scientific partnerships, developing innovative technologies, and building local capacities to collaboratively tackle large scale global public health and environmental challenges that emerge at the critical intersection of vulnerable populations, health disparities, disease, risk, environmental degradation, water, sanitation, and infrastructure. The evolution of this trans-disciplinary approach is the product of over a decade of funded collaborative research, capacity-building work, and global engagement on a wide range of topics that include but are not limited to: cross-cultural doctor-patient communication, language and culture in global public health, waterborne diseases, enteric illnesses, disaster prevention and relief, neighborhood approaches to risk reduction, crisis management, sustainability, resilience, and environmental protection.
Harvey formed part of the team that created a virtual self-screening tool that will help individuals assess their risk of being infected with COVID-19. The app also offers capabilities for expediting test screening for providers and ultimately giving public health officials real-time anonymized data to identify, map and target interventions where they’re needed most: https://www.virtualcovidscreen.com He also launched the Spanish version of the free Vanderbilt COVID-19 Virtual Self-Screening Tool https://es.virtualcovidscreen.com. Read more about this project here.
Recent Courses
- ANTH 1601: Introduction to Language and Culture
- ANTH 3890: Special Topic: Cultural & Linguistic Determinants of Health
- ANTH 3890: Special Topic: Medicine, Language & Communication in Global Public Health
- ANTH 1601: Introduction to Language and Culture
- ANTH 8010: Special Topics - Texts & Textualities
Specializations
Global Public Health, Environmental Protection, Doctor-Patient Communication, Health Disparities, Prescription Drug Non-Adherence, Risk Reduction, Crisis Communication, Cultural and Linguistic Determinants of Health, Waterborne Diseases, and Enteric Illnesses.
Geographic Areas of Concentration: Central America and North America
Representative Publications
Books
Harvey, T. S. 2013. Wellness Beyond Words. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Journal Articles
Harvey, T. S. 2023. COVID-19, Framing and Naming a Pandemic: How What Is Not in a Disease Name May Be More Important than What Is Pathogens 12, no. 2: 346. View Article
Green, J., Fischer, E. F., Fitzgerald, D., Harvey, T. S., & Thomas, F. (2022). The publics of public health: learning from COVID-19. Critical Public Health, 1-8
Harvey, T.S. 2021 Make It Plain: COVID-19 and How Fundamental Cultural Misunderstandings about How Viruses Work Can Spread Infection and Hesitancy. Practicing Anthropology. 43 (4): 19–22
Harvey, T. S. 2020. Monuments to Hate. Anthropology News:8-10.
Harvey T.S. 2019. The Gordian Knot of Racism, Explorations in Incidental Anthropology. Anthropology News 60:e77-e81. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2015. Muddying the Waters: Protection, Public Participation, and Ambiguity in the Language of Pollution in the Great Lakes. Culture, Agriculture, Food and Environment 37(2):107-115. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2012. Cyanobacteria Blooms: Maya Peoples between the Politics of Risk and the Threat of Disaster. Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 31(6):477-496. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2011. Maya Mobile Medicine in Guatemala: The "Other" Public Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 25(1):47-69. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2008. Where there is no patient: An anthropological treatment of a biomedical category. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 32(4):577-606. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2006. Ipseity, alterity, and community: The tri-unity of Maya therapeutic healing. Zygon 41(4):903-914. View Article.
Harvey, T.S. 2006. Humbling, Frightening, and Exalting. Anthropology and Humanism (31):1-10.
Book chapters
Harvey, T. S. 2017. Cultural Issues and Linguistic Complications in Health Communication. In International Encyclopedia of Public Health. Second Edition edition. Pp. 202-207: Elsevier Inc. View Book Chapter.
Harvey, T.S. 2008. Cultural Issues in Health Communication. In International Encyclopedia of Public Health. H.K. Heggenhougen, ed. Pp. 60-65. Oxford: Academic Press. View Book Chapter.
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