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a focus on prevention research in a multicultural context, including a special focus on social structure, social determinants of health, and cultural applicability design for institutional change, including institutional change in corporate cultures. Subsequent research, in the 2000s to present, has focused on both domestic and international research associated with NIH, the Surgeon General’s office (RARE: Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation), CDC (I-RARE), and WHO (International Classification of Disabilities). Dr. Trotter’s current applied research includes prevention and intervention–oriented research focused on the confluence of criminal justice conditions, converging comorbidities, and substance abuse, and on the interaction of the social determinants of health and infectious disease transmission (including sociocultural approaches combined with cutting-edge genomic studies), in both general populations and in institutional (hospital) populations. Dr. Trotter’s applied oriented research includes involvement as P.I. on NIH RO1s, U01s, T-32s, as well as other roles (Co-PI, mPI, Investigator, Evaluator) on NIH U54s, R01s, U01s, as well as funding for CDC and WHO projects. Dr. Trotter has served as an ad hoc and regular member of NIH study sections for NIDA, NIMHD, NIMH, and CDC. Dr. Trotter currently serves as Lead Core Director for the Research Infrastructure Core (RIC) for the NAU Southwest Health Equities Research Collaborative (SHERC) (NIMHD U54MD012388), as well as a Senior Scientist for the NAU Center for Health Equity Research (CHER). Both roles are focused on mentoring early career investigators in relation to both qualitative and quantitative methods, technology, and research design.

      E. Christian Wells is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Brownfields Research & Redevelopment at the University of South Florida, where he served previously as the Founding Director of the Office of Sustainability and as Deputy Director of the Patel School of Global Sustainability. Dr. Wells is an applied environmental anthropologist committed to improving human and environmental health outcomes of re/development efforts in marginalized communities. With support from the National Science Foundation and the US Environmental Protection Agency, his research examines water and sanitation infrastructure transitions in underserved communities in the United States, Central America, and the Caribbean. Dr. Wells is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is the recipient of the Sierra Club’s Black Bear Award in recognition of outstanding dedication to sustainability and the environment. He currently serves as President of the Florida Brownfields Association, the state’s largest nonprofit advocacy organization dedicated to improving public health through environmental justice.

       Merrill Singer, Pamela I. Erickson, and César Abadía-Barrero

      The political economic systems that have resulted from unconstrained capitalism and global free market policies married to a scientific positivism whose advocates thought they would save the world have become systems of structural violence (Galtung 1969) that are especially damaging to the poor and marginalized peoples of the planet. As Farmer (2003:1) indicates, structural violence refers to “a host of offenses against human dignity [including]: extreme and relative poverty, social inequalities ranging from racism to gender inequality, and the more spectacular forms of violence that are uncontested human rights abuses….” Medical anthropologists waver between people-centered approaches that include individual experiences and collective realities of lived marginalization and “social suffering” (Biehl and Petryna 2013; Kleinman et al. 1997), and infrastructures of violence, historical trauma, and systems of oppression. As Langer (1996:53) asserts, “We need a special kind of portraiture [and a special language] to sketch the anguish of people who have no agency in their fate because their enemy is not a discernible antagonist, but a ruthless racial ideology, an uncontrollable virus, or, more recently, a shell from a distant hillside exploding amid unsuspecting victims in a hospital or market square.”