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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (funded research projects)

1) 2003- present Operating Ideal Plant culture in a greenfield car assembly plant: LDT General Motors Research and Development Laboratories.

2) 2001- present Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of GM R&D Center Partnerships. General Motors Research and Development Laboratories, Enterprise Systems Laboratories, Warren, MI. (Co-Investigator)

3) 2001-present GAP (Global AIDS Program) I.RARE (International Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation). Centers for Disease Control. Rapid Assessment Training, Brazil, Vietnam

4) 1999- 2003 RARE Project (Congressional Black Caucus Initiative, Rapid Assessment, Response and Evaluation) Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, Department of Health and Human Services.

5) 1998-2001 National Institute for Mental Health, Sacred Mountain Youth Project. R01 (Co-PI). (Dr. Julie Baldwin, P.I.)

6) 1995-1998 National Institute on Drug Abuse, Small Town IDU Networks and HIV: Transmission Dynamics RO1 #DA09965 (P.I.)

7) 1995-97 Centers for Disease Control: Community Research on Preparedness for HIV vaccine Trials Project LinCS (Linking Communities and Scientists): YAMS Social Network Study

8) 1995-2000 World Health Organization, Joint Project: Revision of the ICIDH (International Classification of Impairments, Handicaps, and Disabilities): Cross-Cultural Applicability Studies

9) 1994-95 World Health Organization, Programme on Substance Abuse, Consolidated Epidemiological Manual Project

10) 1994-95 NIDA/WHO Field Test of Model Epidemiological Instruments for the Consolidated Manual on Drug Abuse

11) 1991-1997 NIH (NIDA), Community Research Branch, Multicultural Outreach Prevention of AIDS and Drug Abuse (U01) P.I.

12) 1993-94 World Health Organization, Programme on Substance Abuse, World Cocaine Project Flagstaff Cooperating Center, P.I./Consultant

13) 1993-94 World Health Organization Ethnographic Research Training Resource Project: Program on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Division.

14) 1992 - 1993 World Health Organization (WHOQUOL) Quality of Life Project: Mental Health Division

15) 1991-1993 World Health Organization CAR (Cross Cultural Applicability Study) Project: Mental Health Division

16) 1990 NSF Equipment Grant: Ethnographic Data Processing Laboratory, P.I.

17) 1988-89 Minority Research Opportunities Program (U.S. Dept. of Education) Ethnographic Field School for Minority Students, Director.

18) 1988 Cultural History of the Yavapai-Apache of Middle Verde, Arizona. Arizona Humanities Council, P.I.

19) 1987-88 Enumeration of Migrant and Seasonal Farm workers in PHS Regions III and IV. DHHS(PHS), P.I.

20) 1987 Cultural and Environmental Impact Analysis for Yavapai-Apache Reservation. Verde Valley, AZ, P.I.

21) 1987 Analysis of Utilization and Non?Utilization Patterns for Arizona Migrant Health Care Delivery Services, P.I.

22) 1986-1987 Ethnography of Migrant Education I & R Processes in the United States. Pennsylvania State Department of Education (143c Project). U.S. Department of Education. Research Anthropologist

23) 1986-1987 A Risk Analysis of the Use of Home Remedies in Mexican American Communities in Northern Arizona. Northern Arizona University Organized Research Council. P.I.

24) 1986 A geographical/institutional analysis of the relationship between high migrant impact areas and the availability of health services in Arizona. Arizona Association of Community Health Centers, P.I.

25) 1984-1985 Special Project: Health Education Needs of Puerto Rican Migrant farm workers. Pennsylvania Department of Education, Migrant Education Division. Research Anthropologist

26) 1984-1985 Development of a Provider Orientation Package. P.H.S./B.C.H.D.A./National Migrant Referral Program, P.I.

27) 1984 Assessment of Migrant Health Education Needs (Project Happier). Pennsylvania Department of Education.

28) 1983 Greta and Azarcon Use in Hidalgo County. Hidalgo County Health Care Corporation, P.I.

29) 1982 Grant to complete computer processing of data on medicinal herbs. Faculty Research Council University of Texas, Pan American, P.I.

30) 1982 A survey of the home treatment of illnesses in the Lower Rio Grande Valley. Faculty Research Council University of Texas, Pan American, P.I.

31) 1981-1982 Bioassay of Medicinal Herbs, Mexican American Home Remedy Utilization Project. P.I.

32) 1981 An Ethnography of Drug Abuse Amongst Migrant Farm workers, Texas Dept. of Community Affairs, Drug Abuse Prevention Division, Austin, TX, P.I.

33) 1981 Don Pedrito Jaramillo (slide series). Institute of Texas Cultures, San Antonio, TX, P.I..

34) 1981 An Evaluation of Midway House, Inc.: A Model for Alcoholism Treatment for Mexican Americans. Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, Austin, Texas, P.I.

35) 1981 Bar Contact Studies: Effects of the Bar Environment on Rates of Consumption of Alcohol by Patrons. P.I.

36) 1980 The Migrant Mobile Alcoholism Program Six State Consortium (Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, New York,and Florida) for migrant alcoholism program, P.I.

37) 1980 National Science Foundation Minority Institution Science Improvement Program Grant (Co-Director with Dr. James Aldridge).

38) 1979 "A Feasibility, Cohort Study of Seasonal Migrant Farm workers. Their Exposure to Pesticides and Its Impact onMalignancy Rates: Follow?up Study." Michigan State Agricultural Experiment Station (Research Anthropologist: P.I., Dr. Joseph Spielberg).

39) 1979 "A Cohort Study of Migrant Farm worker Exposure to Pesticides and Their Impact on Malignancy Rates." University of Texas, Pan American Faculty Research Council, P.I.

40) 1978 "Bi-Cultural Humanities Youth Project" NEH-Planning Grants, P.I.

41) 1977-1978 A Survey of Alcohol Related Attitudes, Behavior, and Knowledge Among Mexican American and Anglo American College Students, P.I.

42) 1977 Research on Ethnopharmacology and Remedios Caseros. Dean's Research Grants. University of Texas, Pan American, P.I.

43) 1977 "A Short Term Course in Health Planning and Training" HEW-PHS (Texas Commission on Alcoholism), Director.

44) 1976-1977 Children's Heart Program of South Texas Health Education Research Project. Research on Health Education Needs of Mexican American Patients, Research Anthropologist.

45) 1976-1977 "A Critical Annotated Bibliography on Alcohol Use and Abuse in Spanish Speaking Communities." Southern Area Alcohol Education and Training Program (SAAETP) NIAAA Sub?Contractor, Atlanta, GA.

46) 1976 "Supplement to Projecto Comprender to Study Folk Medical Treatment of Alcoholism" Texas Commission on Alcoholism, P.I.

47) 1975 "Proyecto Comprender," Regional Medical Program of Texas, Grant #75?108G, P.I.

48) 1973-1974 Dissertation Research: Cultural Barriers to Health Care Delivery in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.

49) 1971 (Summer) A Medical Profile of Picuris Pueblo ? Fort Berguin Research Center, Rancho de Taos, New Mexico. (Field school, not externally funded)