Kearsley Stewart
Professor of the Practice of Global Health
Professor of the Practice in Cultural Anthropology
Co-Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Health Humanities Lab
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Kearsley Stewart
Professor of the Practice of Global Health
Professor of the Practice in Cultural Anthropology
Co-Director, Franklin Humanities Institute, Health Humanities Lab
Kearsley A. Stewart, Ph.D., is Professor of the Practice at Duke University with joint appointments in the Duke Global Health Institute and Cultural Anthropology. She previously taught at Northwestern University, worked at the Centers for Disease Control as a behavioral scientist, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies. Her dissertation focused on adolescent HIV/AIDS in Uganda. In addition, she implemented the first voluntary HIV rapid testing and counseling clinic in a rural area of Uganda and spearheaded changes in national HIV testing policies. Stewart’s current research interests include research ethics of HIV/AIDS clinical trials in Africa, HIV testing for adolescents in Zimbabwe, global health pedagogy, and global health humanities. Her research is supported by grants from NIH, NSF, and Fulbright. She currently teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in global health research ethics, ethics of infectious disease, narrative methods in HIV/AIDS research, and qualitative global health research methods. She is Co-Director of the Duke Health Humanities Lab, faculty associate with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine, and a member of the Duke University Library Council.
Projects
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Bass Connections Global Health: Integrative Global Health Research on Sickle Cell Disease
Cameroon, Jamaica, South Africa, United States
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Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research: DGHI Student Research Training Program vs. Independent Research
United States
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HIV/AIDS In Africa: Building A Digital Humanities Database For The Duke Undergraduate Course "Global Narratives Of HIV/AIDS"
United States
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Bass Connections: Global Health Strengthening Community Environmental Health through Duke-HBCU Partnerships
United States
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Exploring the Emerging Concept of "Social Responsibility of the Global Health Researcher" Through Interactive Video
Tanzania
- An Oral History of the HIV/AIDS Quarantine Experience in Cuba
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Community Advisory Boards in Uganda
Uganda
Publications
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Mukumbya B, Kitya D, Trillo-Ordonez Y, Sun K, Obiga O, Deng DD, et al. The feasibility, appropriateness, and usability of mobile neuro clinics in addressing the neurosurgical and neurological demand in Uganda. PLoS One. 2024;19(6):e0305382.Hosaka KRJ, Mandewo D, Mmbaga BT, Ngowi H, Dow DE, Stewart KA, et al. "I am not alone with tears": embodying stigma and longing among youth living with perinatally acquired HIV in Tanzania through a collaborative arts-based approach. Med Humanit. 2023 Sep;49(3):396–406.Guler J, Stewart KA, de Vries PJ, Seris N, Shabalala N, Franz L. Conducting caregiver focus groups on autism in the context of an international research collaboration: Logistical and methodological lessons learned in South Africa. Autism. 2023 Apr;27(3):751–61.Tupetz A, Quirici M, Sultana M, Hoque KI, Stewart KA, Landry M. Exploring the intersection of critical disability studies, humanities and global health through a case study of scarf injuries in Bangladesh. Med Humanit. 2022 Jun;48(2):169–76.
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