Elise Carpenter
(entered 2000)
Elise Audrey Carpenter is a MD/PhD student writing her dissertation on the process by which Botswana’s national government provided HIV drugs using international money from Merck Co. and the Gates Foundation. The dissertation looks at the first year the program came to hospitals outside of the capital city and examines how Botswana’s national health care system was reorganized in order to provide HIV drug therapy. Her advisor is Professor Steven Feierman and her expected graduation date from the PhD is 2008 and the MD 2010.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104
School of Medicine
MD/Ph.D. program (August 2003-2010)
College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, Ph.D. student (September 2000-August 2008)
Dissertation Title: “The Social Context of Health and Development in Botswana: Clinical transformations caused by the implementation of HIV drug therapy.”
Advisor: Steven Feierman, Prof. of History and Sociology of Science & History
Orals Lists: (taken in October 2003)
1. African History, examiner Steven Feierman, Prof. of History and Sociology of Science
2. World History of Public Health, examiners David Barnes, Assoc. Prof. of History and Sociology of Science and Janet Tighe, Director of the Health and Societies Program
3. British Empire, examiner Henrika Kuklick, Prof. of History and Sociology of Science
University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies, Philadelphia, PA
Non-Traditional Graduate Student (January 1998-August 2000)
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
Bachelors of Arts degree granted in May 1997, cum laudae.
Majors: Classical Studies & Chemistry
Fellowships
Fulbright U.S. Student Fellowship, Botswana, Institute of International Education (IIE) (awarded May 2003 for use in academic year 2003-4)
Travel Grant, Ford Foundation & African Health Group (Summer 2002)
Received funding for travel to Africa as part of the Ford funded and African Health Group sponsored “Seminar in the Health & Society of Africa”.
Presentations
Papers presented at the Annual Conferences of the:
American Anthropological Association (Fall 2005)
“HIV Drugs as a Human Right: International debates and health development models”.
African Studies Association (Fall 2005)
“Experts as Expats: The Role of Western Doctors and Nurses as Experts in Botswana’s
National HIV Drug Therapy Program”.
American Anthropological Association (Fall 2002)
“An Ethnographic Examination of Doulas’ Role in American Childbirth”.
American Association for the History of Medicine (Spring 2002)
“The Transformation of Medical Models of Menopause, 1840-1940”.
Publications
Simon, JH, Sheehy AM, Carpenter EA, Fouchier, RA, Malim, MH “Mutational Analysis of the human immunodeficency virus type 1 vif protein.” Journal of Virology, 1999 Apr(4):2675-81
Simon, JH, Carpenter EA, Fouchier, RA, Malim, MH “Vif and the p55(Gag) polyprotein of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 are present in co localizing membrane-free cytoplasmic .” Journal of Virology, 1999 Apr(4): 2667-74.
Volunteer and Extracurricular
ACHAP, African Comprehensive HIV/AIDS Partnerships, Gaborone, Botswana Internship (Summer 2002)
GSAC, Graduate Students Association Council, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- President (April 2002-April 2003)
- Vice-President of School of Arts and Sciences Affairs (April 2001-April 2002)
- Representative for the Department of History and Sociology of Science (September 2000-April 2001)
Union Fire Co. and Rescue Squad, Titusville, NJ 08560
- Volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (1994-2001)
Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
- Volunteer in Emergency Services (June 2001-September 2001)
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Department of Emergency Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
- Volunteer Research Assistant (September 1998-May 1999)
Employment
University of Pennsylvania, Dept. of History and Sociology of Science, Logan Hall, Suite 303, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Teaching Assistant (September 2002-May 2003, September 2001- May 2002)
- Program Assistant: Curriculum and Web Site Development in Health & Societies (May 2001-August 2001)
- Research Assistant (August 1999-August 2000)
College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19 South 22nd Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103
- Historical Consultant (October 2001-January 2002)
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA 19010
-Teaching Assistant, Organic Chemistry Laboratory (June 1996-August 1996, June 1997-August 1997, June 2001-August 2001)
- Teaching Assistant, General Chemistry Laboratory (September 1996-May 1997, September 1995-May 1996)
- Laboratory Preparation, Organic Chemistry Laboratory (September 1995-May 1996, September 1994-May 1995)
University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104
- Research Technician (August 1997-August 1999)
