Catherine Panter-Brick

Catherine Panter-Brick (born 1959) is a medical anthropologist and Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs at Yale University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Department of Anthropology and the Jackson School of Global Affairs as well as a secondary appointment in the Yale School of Public Health. At Yale, Panter-Brick directs the undergraduate certificate program in global health studies, as well as the MacMillan Center's Program on Conflict, Resilience, and Health. She is also the head of Morse College – one of Yale's 14 residential colleges – and chairs the Council of Heads of Colleges. and was raised by a French mother and English father. She holds dual nationalities. Educated in both France and the United Kingdom, Panter-Brick graduated with a Baccalauréat from the Lycée Français de Londres in 1977. She subsequently received a B.A. degree in human sciences from the University of Oxford, followed by an M.Sc. and D.Phil. in human biology and biological anthropology, respectively. She was advised by G. A. Harrison during the course of her D.Phil. degree. Panter-Brick is married to Mark Eggerman, with whom she has two sons.

Career From 1991 to 2010, Panter-Brick was a faculty member in the anthropology department of Durham University. She left in 2010 to become a professor at Yale University, where she now holds academic appointments in three departments: the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Department of Anthropology), the Jackson School of Global Affairs, and the School of Public Health (Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences). She also serves as the head of Yale's residential Morse College and as chair of the Council of the Heads of Colleges, a council overseeing the residential college system. She is the director of the Global Health Studies Multidisciplinary Academic Program, a certificate program offered by the Jackson School to undergraduates in Yale College, and also leads the Conflict, Resilience, and Health Program of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and the Peacebuilding Initiative of the Jackson School.

Panter-Brick's teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate courses under the subjects of public health and social science, including epidemiology, global affairs, and international relations. For example, one of her courses, Global Health Colloquium, has included interdisciplinary learning at the United Nations in New York City as well as speakers from external organizations. Panter-Brick's students are also provided opportunities to write policy briefs commissioned by organizations such as the African Development Bank, Charité, Mercy Corps, and UNICEF. The project was funded by a grant from Elrha and published as a case study in the Elrha Research for Health in Humanitarian Crises series.

Awards and honors In recognition of her "excellence in the application of anthropology to the relief of poverty and distress, and to the active recognition of human dignity", Panter-Brick was awarded the 2011 Lucy Mair Medal by the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. In 2014, Panter-Brick was the keynote speaker of a forum on parenting and human development hosted at the United Nations headquarters. She has also been a keynote speaker at the World Bank and World Health Organization.

Publications Panter-Brick has published over 180 peer-reviewed articles and has authored or edited eight books, listed below: