Pregnant in the Time of Ebola / Global Maternal and Child Health (PDF)

has long experience at understanding and integrating the anthropological, biomedical, epidemiological, and public health aspects of emerging infectious diseases as they affect society, especially women and children. Both Drs. Schwartz and Abramowitz have recently been active in addressing aspects of the current global Zika virus situation.
Julienne N. Anoko, PhD, MS, is a social anthropologist (PhD) from the Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She completed her academic preparation (MS) in the areas of epidemiology and public health, and gender and health. For more than 15 years, she has been supporting several institutions (public administrations, NGOs, international development, and United Nations organizations) in addressing social norms and gender issues both during emergency outbreaks and into development programs for better efficiency and accountability. Between 2005 and 2014, Dr. Anoko supported the World Health Organization and UNICEF during the Ebola and Marburg outbreaks, as well as the H1N1 influenza pandemic in both developed and developing countries in Africa, America, and Europe. In 2015, she joined the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) in Guinea to coordinate, support, and leverage the Social Mobilization and Community Engagement pillar in order to implement interventions compatible with local contexts to gain community trust and participation into the overall response. Between 2015 and 2016, she was appointed as in-house social anthropologist of UNICEF in the Guinea-country Office to support the mainstreaming of social norms into both the Ebola emergency response and development programs. Dr. Anoko has published books and papers and contributed in developing several guidelines for United Nations agencies dealing with her areas of expertise. She had been featured in articles from NPR, National Geographic, The Washington Post, WHO, and others. She is recipient of the "Research and Innovation 2015 Award" for her engagement in the field during the West African Ebola epidemic from the French Red Cross Humanitarian Fund.
Sharon Abramowitz, PhD, is an independent consultant and former assistant professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida in Gainsville. She is currently pending as a research affiliate with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. As a medical anthropologist, Dr. Abramowitz has conducted research on community-based response to epidemics and pandemic events, Ebola, humanitarian intervention, mental health, gender-based violence, health sector transitions, and post-conflict reconstruction in West Africa since 2000. She is the author of Searching for Normal in the Wake of the Liberian War (University of Pennsylvania Press 2014), co-editor of Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (University of Pennsylvania Press 2015), and has authored many peer-reviewed articles in leading scientific journals. Presently, Dr. Abramowitz plays a leading role in social science's response to the West African Ebola epidemic, and is the principal investigator for the Ebola 100 Project, which is establishing a "history of the present" of humanitarian experiences during the Ebola outbreak. She also is conducting research on community-based responses to epidemic and pandemic events.