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Rebecca Henderson

The Expert is a medical anthropologist (PhD completed 2022) and MD candidate with expertise working in Haiti from 2017-present. Her focus is on the effects of ongoing political instability, gang violence, kidnappings, and material shortages on the care for individuals with cancer and other chronic conditions. She has conducted fieldwork around the country, including in Port-au-Prince, the southern peninsula, and the central plateau, specifically examining the effects of insecurity, stress, and lack of access that stem from Haiti's violent and chaotic political instability.

Name
Rebecca Henderson
Occupation
MD/PhD
Expertise

Child abuse, Sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence, likelihood of homelessness or destitution, Risk from non-state actors, Healthcare Access/Health systems capacity, Mental Illness, HIV/ AIDS, Specialized medical services: Neurology, Cardiac care, Cancer Treatment, Pulmonary, Disability services

Publications
  • Henderson, R.R., Baumgardt, L. (In Press) “Keeping Things Under Control: Responsibilities Towards Things, Homes , and People in Hoarding Disorder ” Anthropology and Responsibility. Demain, Fumanti & Lynteris, Editors. Routledge Press.
  • Henderson, R.R. Hsaio, C., Steinauer, J. (In Press) “Abortion, professional identity, and generational meaning-making among US OB-GYNs”. The Anthropology of Obstetrics and Obstetricians: The Practice, Maintenance, and Reproduction of a Biomedical Profession. Premkumar & Davis-Floyd Editors. Routledge Press.
  • Henderson, R. R (In Press) “Bleeding into Reality”: Popular representations of Ebola and the 2013-2016 Ebola epidemic. In Pandemics and Epidemics in Cultural Representation. Venkatesan et al., Editors. Springer Nature
  • Degennaro, V., Henderson, R., Schwartz, T., & Elie, M. C. (2021). A cross-sectional cohort study of prevalence of antibodies to COVID-19 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. medRxiv.
  • Zaidi, Z., Henderson, R. R., & O’Brien, B. C. (2021). Exploring how physician‐educators approach politically charged topics with learners. Medical Education. 55 1261-1271
  • Nutley, S., Falise, A., Henderson, R., Apostolou, V., Mathews, C., Striley, C. (2020) Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Disordered Eating Behavior: Qualitative Analysis of Social Media Posts. Journal of Medical Internet Research Mental Health
  • Sorrentino, Z., Smith, G., Palm, L., Motwani, K., Butterfield, J., Archer, C., Henderson, R., Heldermon, C., Guatam, S., Brantly, M. An Erythritol-Sweetened Beverage Induces Satiety and Suppresses Ghrelin Compared to Aspartame in Health Non-Obese Subjects: A Pilot Study. Cureus 12(11): e11409
  • Bernard, J., Alexis, L. G., Gilbert, D. P., Henderson, R. R., & Jr DeGennaro, V. (2020). Challenges in the Management of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Haiti. Clinical Lymphoma Myeloma & Leukemia (Vol. 20, pp. S282-S282).
  • Bernard, J., Alexis, LG., Gilbert, DP., Pierre, LSC., Henderson, R. DeGennaro, V.  (2020) Prevalence and impact of HIV infection on mortality rate and overall survival of patients in a Haitian cancer clinic. Annals of Oncology, 31, S970
  • Henderson, R., Hagen, M. G., Zaidi, Z., Dunder, V., Maska, E., & Nagoshi, Y. (2020). Self-care perspective taking and empathy in a student-faculty book club in the United States. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health Professions, 17, 22.
  • Ostebo, M. & Henderson, R. (2020) Wrong but useful- For Whom? The Politics of Pandemic Modeling. Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology. 6.23.2020
  • Bernard, J. Constant, P. Henderson, R., Alexis, LG…DeGennaro, V.  (2020) Impact of the molecular pathology of breast cancer on mortality rates and overall survival in a Haitian cancer clinic . Journal of Clinical Oncology. 38 (15)
  • Bernard, J. Constant, P. Henderson, R., Alexis, LG…DeGennaro, V.  (2020) Epidemiological profile of cancers among adolescent and young adult patients of a Haitian cancer program. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 38 (15)
  • Backus, L, Henderson, R. (Forthcoming) The Role of Students in Advocating for Training in Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare. In U. Landy, P. Darney & J. Steinauer (Ed.) Advancing Women’s Health through Medical Education: A Systems Approach in Family Planning and Abortion . Cambridge  University Press
  • Stewart-Ibarra, A., Henderson, R., Heydari, N., Bobor-Cordova, M., Fujii, Y. & Bardosh, K.L. (2019)Tracking Aedes Aegypti in a Hotter, Wetter, More Urban World:  Capacity Building, Disease Surveillance and Epidemiological Labor in Ecuador. In K. Bardosh (Ed.), Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in the Age of Mosquito Pandemics. Routledge Medical Anthropology and Health Series
  • Henderson, R. & Bardosh, K.L. Counting Zika: Insidious Uncertainties and the Fuzziness of Epidemic Facts. (2019) In K. Bardosh (Ed.), Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in the Age of Mosquito Pandemics. Routledge Medical Anthropology and Health Series. Manuscript in Preparation.
  • Henderson, R. McLean, K. When The Patient Comes Third. In D. Schwartz, J. Anoko & S. Abramowitz (Eds.), Pregnant in the Time of Ebola. Women and Their Children in the 2013-2015 West African Epidemic. Springer Press.
  • Gordon, M., Henderson, R., Holmes, J. H., Wolters, M. K., & Bennett, I. M. (2016). Participatory design of ehealth solutions for women from vulnerable populations with perinatal depression. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 23(1), 105-109.
  • Jacobs, J., Henderson, R. (2013). Interdisciplinarity in Recently Founded Academic Journals. In J. Jacobs (Ed.), In Defense of Disciplines. University of Chicago Press.
  • Barg, Frances K., Keddem, Shimrit, Sheiekmann, Wendy, Henderson, Rebecca R. (2013). An Anthropology of Caregiving. In R.C. Talley & S..S. Travis (Eds.), Multidisciplinary Coordinated Caregiving. Springer.
  • Ahmad, Faraz S., Metlay, Joshua P., Barg, Frances K., Henderson, Rebecca R. and Werner, Rachel M. (2012). Identifying Hospital Organizational Strategies to Reduce Readmissions. American Journal of Medical Quality 20(10), 1-8.
  • Kirkpatrick, J., Hull, S., Kellom, K., Henderson, R., & Barg, F. (2012). Pumped up, but Not Prepared: Examining LVAD-DT Patients’ Comprehension of Advance Directive Specifications. Journal of Cardiac Failure, 18(8), S37.
Languages
Haitian Kreyol
Ethnic groups expertise
Kono (Sierra Leone)
Religious groups expertise
Islam, Christianity
Fees
[Private to EIN members]
Contact email
rhenderson@communitology.co
Phone
[Private to EIN members]
Address
[Private to EIN members]
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