About the IPH

Elisa Sobo, PhD

Elisa (‘EJ’) Sobo is the Senior Research Scientist for the IPH’s Maternal and Child Health Initiative. Elisa is also a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine, and a long-term Visiting Scholar in UCSD’s department of anthropology. A socio-cultural medical anthropologist, Dr. Sobo’s primary area of research interest is the cultural context of health, illness, and medicine.

Dr. Sobo's content areas of expertise include:

• Qualitative methodology, including ethnography as well as rapid assessment
• Health-related risk perception
• Medical error and safety
• Child and adolescent health
• Traditional and contemporary childbirth-related knowledge and practice
• Sexual and reproductive health, including as related to HIV/AIDS
• Cultural issues in health care provision
• Anthropology of the body

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