Bonnie Kaiser
Education:
- BA in Anthropology and Psychology, University of Notre Dame (2008)
- MA in Anthropology, Emory University (2012)
- MPH in Epidemiology, Emory University (2015)
- PhD in Anthropology, Emory University (2015)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Mental Health and Implementation Science, Duke University (2015-2018)
Leadership Positions
- Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of Graduate Studies jointly appointed in the Department of Anthropology and Global Health Program at UC San Diego.
Publications
- Kaiser, B., Hruschka, D., and Hadley, C. 2017. Measuring wealth in low-income settings: A conceptual and how-to guide. American Journal of Human Biology 29(4). doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22987.Kaiser, B., Haroz, E., Kohrt, B., Bolton, P., Bass, J., and Hinton, D. 2015. Thinking too much: A systematic review of a common idiom of distress. Social Science & Medicine 147: 170–183. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.10.044.Kaiser, B. and McLean, K. 2015. “Thinking too much” in the Central Plateau: An apprenticeship approach to treating local distress in Haiti. In B. Kohrt and E. Mendenhall (eds) Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 277–290.Kaiser, B., Keys, H., Foster, J., and Kohrt, B. 2015. Social stressors, social support, and mental health among Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic. Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health 38(2): 157-162.Kaiser, B., Kohrt, B., Wagenaar, B., Kramer, M. McLean, K., Hagaman, A., Khoury, N., and Keys, H. 2015. Scale properties of an ethnographically-grounded idioms of distress screener in rural Haiti: Association with depression, anxiety, and sociocultural risk factors. International Journal of Culture and Mental Health 8(4): 341-358. doi: 10.1080/17542863.2015.1015580.
Biography
Dr. Kaiser holds her MA in Anthropology from Emory University, MPH in Epidemiology from Emory University and her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global Mental Health and Implementation Science from Duke University. Her work is focused on on elucidating cultural models of mental health and illness and exploring their connections to care-seeking; developing and adapting measurement tools for cross-cultural research and interventions; improving cultural adaptation of global mental health interventions; and critically exploring concepts of trauma, risk, and resilience. She has done field work in Haiti and Nigeria. Dr. Kaiser has received funding from many organizations including the Catholic Relief Services and NIMH. She has received three awards: Implementation Research Institute Fellow (2018-2020), Charles Hughes Fellowship in Cultural Psychiatry (2012), Emory University/Howard Hughes Medical Institute Teacher-Scholar Award (2011). Her book was published in 2019 and is titled, “Trauma and Mental Health in Humanitarian Crises: The Case of Haiti”.
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