Professional Summary
Dr. Mark Padilla is a medical anthropologist with cross-training and experience in international health and program evaluation in Latin America. His academic focus is to use the theories and methods of cultural anthropology to improve our understanding of health problems on a global scale, and to create more effective ways of intervening to improve the health of specific populations. With several years of international health experience in the Dominican Republic, his emphasis is on HIV/AIDS prevention among various populations of men who have sex with men (MSM).
Courses Taught
HBEHED516: Global Health Anthropological Perspectives (Anthro 416)
HBEHED611: Gender, Sexuality, Health and Human Rights: Latin American and Caribbean Perspectives
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology, Emory University, 2003
M.P.H., International Health, Emory University, 1998
B.A., Anthropology, University of New Mexico, 1994
Selected Publications
Padilla, Mark, Jennifer Hirsch, Robert Sember, Miguel Muñoz-Laboy, and Richard Parker (eds.) (In press). Love and Globalization: Transformations of Intimacy in the Contemporary World. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press.
Padilla, Mark, Daniel Castellanos, Vincent Guilamo-Ramos, Armando Matiz Reyes, Leonardo E. Sanchez Marte, Martha Arredondo Soriano (In press). Stigma, Social Inequality, and HIV Risk Disclosure among Dominican Male Sex Workers. Social Science and Medicine (Special Issue: Stigma and Health)
Padilla, Mark (In press). The Limits of Heterosexual AIDS: Ethnographic Research on Tourism and Male Sexual Labor in the Dominican Republic. In Robert Hahn and Marcia Inhorn (Ed.) Anthropology and Public Health: Bridging Differences in Culture and Society, 2nd ed Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Padilla, Mark (2007). Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Padilla, Mark, Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila & Richard Parker (2007). Globalization, structural violence, and LGBT health: A cross-cultural perspective. In Ilan Meyer and Mary Northridge (Ed.) The Health of Sexual Minorities: Public Health Perspectives on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Populations. New York: Springer.
Padilla, M., Brown, P., & Barrett, R. (1998). Introduction: What is Medical Anthropology? In Brown, P. (Ed.) Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology Mayfield.
Professional Affiliations
AIDS and Anthropology Research Group
American Anthropological Association
American Public Health Association
Society for Applied Anthropology
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