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Curriculum Vita
Lance Andrew Rasbridge
ADDRESS
Coord., Refugee Outreach Prog.
COPC/Parkland
Hospital
3320
Live Oak, 7th Fl. 214
828-2623
214
266-1127
www.cambodiaprogram.org 214
266-1128 fax
lrasbr@parknet.pmh.org
BIRTH
EDUCATION
1991
Ph.D. in Anthropology, Southern
Infant/Child
Feeding among Resettled Cambodians in
Nutrition
1989
M.A. in Anthropology, Southern
(G.P.A. 3.79)
1985
Certificate in Epidemiological Methods, Centers for
Disease Control
1984
B.A. in Biology,
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2005- Consultant, Saboras Non-Government
Organization,
Battambang, Cambodia
1998- Coordinator,
Services of
Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services affiliate
www.cambodiaprogram.org
1992- Community Services Coordinator,
Refugee Outreach
Anthropologist,
Dallas Co. Refugee Health Screening Prog.
1992-93 Adjunct Faculty,
(Culture Region:
1987
Research Assistant, Southern
(in
1985-86 Research Intern,
O'Hara Center for Youth
Development,
PUBLICATIONS
Rasbridge,Lance A. and Charles Kemp
2004 Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Handbook for
Health Professionals.
Rasbridge,
Lance A. and Charles Kemp
submitted Resettled refugees of Southeast Asian ethnicities: Health-Seeking behavior. In Ethnicity and Health Seeking Behavior, Tyson Gibbs and Sue Lurie, eds. Greenwood Publishing Co.
Rasbridge,
Lance A.
2001 Refugees in
Patterns and Reactions.
In Manifest Destinies:
Internationalizing
Immigrants in
Mortland, eds.
Rasbridge,
Lance A. and Charles Kemp
2001 East
Africans: Health beliefs and practices related to the end of life. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
3(4): 110-112.
Rasbridge,
Lance A., Leck Keovilay and
Charles Kemp, RN
2000 Cambodians
and Laotians: Health beliefs and practices related to the end of life. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing
2(4): 143-151.
Rasbridge,
Lance A., A. Dinh, and Charles Kemp, RN
2000 Vietnamese health beliefs and practices related
to the
end of life. Journal of Hospice and
Palliative
Nursing. 2(3): 109-117.
Rasbridge,
Lance A. and Charles Kemp, RN
Care and Refugee
Agency Staff. Texas Department
of
Health,
www.baylor.edu/~Charles Kemp/refugee-health.htm
Rasbridge,
Lance A.
1996
Role Transformation in an Applied Refugee Health
Program. Practicing Anthropology
18(1).
Rasbridge,
Lance A.
1996 An Anthropological Approach to Cambodian
Refugee
Women:
Reciprocity in Oral Histories. In
Unrelated Kin: Race and Gender in Women's
Personal Narratives, Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis and
Michele Foster, eds.
Rasbridge,
Lance A. and Judith C. Kulig
1995 Infant Feeding among Cambodian Refugees.
Maternal Child Nursing
20(4).
Rasbridge,
Lance A.
1993 Beyond Catharsis: Reciprocity and Interaction
through Cambodian
Life Histories. In Selected
Papers
on Refugee Issues:II, MaryCarol Hopkins
and Nancy D. Donnelly, eds.
American Anthropological Association.
Rasbridge,
Lance A. and John L. Marcucci
1992 Reactions to Coupon Coercion:
Women's Autonomy in the
Acculturative Process.
In Selected
Papers on Refugee Issues:I,
Pam A.
DeVoe, ed.
Anthropological Association.
Rasbridge,
Lance A.
1991 Infant/Child
Feeding among Cambodians in
Intracultural Variation in
Reference to Iron
Nutrition. Ph.D. dissertation, Southern Methodist
University.
Intl.
CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
1999 Southeast
Asian Health Care Beliefs and Practices:
Health Care
Providers, with Vietnamese Mutual
1998 Providing
Health Care to Asian Patients, with
Vietnamese
Mutual Assistance Association, Dallas
PAPERS PRESENTED
2004
Medical Care in
Refugee Resettlement: Where is Anthropology Headed? Society for Applied Anthropology annual
meetings,
2004 Southeast
Asian beliefs and practices at the end of life. Mental Health
Association Dallas, Menatl Health and Aging
Coalition, public forum,
2003
Connecting
refugees with their homeland: The Cambodia
Outreach Program. Society for
Applied Anthropology annual meetings,
2003
Medical issues
for Victims of Trafficking. Victims of
Trafficking national conference, Victims of Trafficking Initiative, Dallas.
2002
Introduction to
complementary and alternative medicine;
Southeast Asian medical beliefs and practices. Complementary and Alternative
Medicine Conference,
2001 Anthropologists in refugee resettlement: Role transformations and ethical quandaries. American Anthropological Association annual meetings, Washington.
2001
Southeast Asian
health in
2001 Cultural
beliefs in healthcare: Asians. Minority
Health Conf., American Heart Assoc.,
2001 Refugees:
Assimilation and the effect on health.
Diversity in Health Conference, Perspectives,
2000 Refugee
resettlement and anthropology into the next
century: The view from
Anthropology
annual meetings,
1999 An
anthropological understanding of health-care
seeking
behavior among Southeast Asian refugees.
Conference,
1999 The health epidemiology of Southeast Asian
refugees:
a
longitudinal analysis.
Health and Welfare Conference,
1999 Refugees,
resettlement, and health care:
Anthropologist as coordinator or peacemaker? Society
for
Applied Anthropology annual meetings,
1998 Drug-Resistant
TB among refugees and immigrants.
1998
Programs on behalf of refugees and immigrants:
Anthropologists in the field. Society for
Applied
Anthropology annual meetings,
1997 Refugees in
and
reactions. American Anthropological
Association
annual
meetings, Washington
1997 Refugee communities in
Immigrants,
Ethnic Entrepreneurship, and Cultural
Diversity. Southern
1997 Refugee health in the resettlement process: a
longitudinal perspective.
Society for Applied
Anthropology annual meetings, Seattle.
1996 Designing a
health orientation program. Conference
on TB in
Asian/Pacific Islanders, Houston.
1996 Supplemental resources for refugee health
services.
Practice Conference,
1995 Southeast Asian medical beliefs and
practices. Susan
B. Komen annual meetings,
Dallas.
1995 Health and illness among refugees. National
Symposium
on
Refugees, San Antonio.
1995 Cambodians in
Association annual meetings,
1994 Culture, beliefs, tradition: Profiles of
Southeast
Asians. Southeast Asian Health
Health Service, Houston.
1994 Health and illness among refugees: Short and
long-term
consequences
of resettlement. American
Anthropological
Association annual meetings,
1993 Anthropology and refugees: Research or social
work?
American Anthropological Association annual meetings,
1993 Refugee health care: A model in outreach. American
Medical Student Association Region IX Conference.
1992 Beyond catharsis: Reciprocity and interaction
through
Cambodian life histories. American
Anthropological
Association annual meetings,
1992 Cultural
diversity and disaster response.
American
Red Cross Advanced Disaster Nurse Cadre Course,
1991 Reactions to coupon coercion: Dallas Cambodian
women's
autonomy
in the acculturative process. American
Anthropological Association annual meetings, Chicago,
with John
Marcucci.
1990 Intracultural
variation in the feeding practices of
resettled
Cambodian infants in
Anthropological Association annual meetings, New
REVIEWS
2001 Selected
Papers on Refugee Issues: VII, MaryCarol Hopkins, ed.
1998 Selected
Papers on Refugee Issues: V, Mortland,
Carol, ed.
1997 Cambodian Growers in a
Organization.
1997 Human
Rights and Anthropological Research: Issues of
Power and
Empowerment in Refugee Studies, Krulfeld, R.
and J.
MacDonald, eds.
1996 Selected Papers on Refugee Issues: IV, Krulfeld, R.
and J.
MacDonald, eds.
1995
Culturally Relevant Medical Initiatives for Cambodian
Australians, for Human
Organization.
BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
2004-
Advisory Board, Saboras NGO,
2002- Member, Victims of Trafficking Initiative,
2001- Steering Committee, Adopt-a-Minefield:
2001- Board President, Center for Survivors of
Torture,
2000 Program Chair, Committee on Refugees and
Immigrants,
General Anthropology Division,
American Anthropological
Association
1998, 2003 Member, Volunteer Observers of the
Cambodian Election
(VOCE),
U.S.-Indochina Reconciliation Project
1996-
Board President, Refugee Services of
Church
World Service and Lutheran Immigration and
Refugee Service affiliate
1994-
Founding Committee and Program Coordinator, Metroplex
Refugee Network
1995-96 Steering
Committee,
Coalition
1995 Planning Committee, Conference on TB in
Asian/Pacific
Islanders, Houston
1995 Planning Committee, National Symposium on
Refugees, San
Antonio
AWARDS
2005 Hero of
2000 Above and
Beyond Award,
1998 Certificate of Appreciation, Cambodian-American
Association of
1996 Outstanding Contribution, Asian-American
Advisory
Committee of
1995 Above and Beyond Award,
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American
Anthropological Association
Society
for Applied Anthropology
Committee
on Refugee Issues
LANGUAGES
Khmer
French