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Noelle Sullivan

The Expert is a medical and sociocultural anthropologist who has done ethnographic (fieldwork-based) research since 2005 on the history and present of Tanzania’s health care sector. She is one of few scholars with expertise on how Tanzania’s health sector has changed through time in the postcolonial period, and what these changes have meant for the health care workers, patients, and families in Tanzania who provide or rely on this care.

The Expert has expertise on the sector’s capacities for certain kinds of care (reproductive and child health, mental health, preventive services, surgical capacity, HIV/AIDS, pediatric care, cancer care, cardiology, etc.) and how this capacity affects quality of health care delivery for prospective patients. She can also provide information on gender-related issues in Tanzania, including traditional gender roles, some ethnic groups’ specific practices related to gender (including marriage practices, female genital cutting, relationships between families of married couples, polygamy, child rearing, etc.)  

Name
Noelle Sullivan
Occupation
Professor, Northwestern University
Expertise

LGBTQ, Child abuse, Sexual abuse/assault, gender-based violence/domestic violence,  FGM/FGC, likelihood of homelessness or destitution, Ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution, Torture/Risk of political persecution/Risk from state actors, 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

Experience

The Expert has produced 3 expert reports for a lawyer in asylum cases, all of which were about the health system's capacity to provide care for individuals with medically complicated needs and whose asylum cases were based on the lack of meaningful care available for their particular health care needs.

Publications

2020                   Sullivan, Noelle.

              “Like a Real Hospital”: Imagining Hospital Futures through Homegrown Public

Private Partnerships in Tanzania. For special issue “Beyond Realism: Anthropology of Africa’s Medical Dreams.” Africa: Journal of

the International African Institute 90(1): 209-228. Noémi Tousignant & P. Wenzel Geissler, guest editors. doi: 10.1017/S0001972019001013

2020                   Marten, Meredith and Noelle Sullivan.

              Hospital Side Hustles: Funding Conundrums and Perverse Incentives in

Tanzania’s Publicly-funded Health Sector. Social Science and Medicine 244, 112662. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112662

2018     Sullivan, Noelle.

International Clinical Volunteering in Tanzania: A Postcolonial Analysis of a Global Health Business. For special issue, “Mobility and (Dis)connectivity in the Global Health Enterprise,” Dominik Mattes and Hansjörg Dilger, guest editors, Global Public Health 33(3): 310-324. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2017.1346695

2017     Sullivan, Noelle.

              Multiple Accountabilities: Development Co-operation, Transparency, and the                               Politics of Unknowing in Tanzania’s Health Sector. In special section “In Search

of Results: Anthropological Interrogations of Evidence-Based Global Health.” Elanah Uretsky and Elsa Fan, special editors, Critical Public Health 17(2): 193-204. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2016.1264572

2012                   Sullivan, Noelle.

Enacting Spaces of Inequality: Placing Global/State Governance within a Tanzanian Hospital. In special issue, Hospital Heterotopias: Comparative Ethnographies of Biomedical Places. Alice Street and Simon Coleman, eds. Space and Culture 15(1):57-67. doi: 10.1177/1206331211426057

2011                   Sullivan, Noelle.

Mediating Abundance and Scarcity: Implementing an HIV/AIDS-Targeted Project within a Government Hospital in Tanzania. In special issue, Global AIDS Medicine in East African Health Institutions. Anita Hardon and Hansjörg Dilger, eds. Medical Anthropology 30(2):202-221. doi:10.1080/01459740.2011.552453

2010                   Sullivan, Noelle, Hansjörg Dilger, and David Garcia.

Negotiating Professionalism, Economics, and Altruism: An Appeal for Ethnographic Approaches to African Medical Migration. African Diaspora 3(2):237-254. doi:10.1163/187254610X526931

Languages
Swahili, English, French
Fees
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