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Joe Kaufert - Ethics and Decision-making theme
Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
Joe Kaufert is a community health researcher and medical anthropologist who has worked in the Departments of Community Medicine and Psychiatry in the Universities of London (England), Texas and Manitoba. He is the founder of the British Society for Medical Anthropology and was President of the Canadian Association for Medical Anthropology. Current areas of research concentration include Aboriginal health, interpretation and health communication, cross-cultural and research ethics and disability studies. He has authored 80 peer-reviewed publications and authored or edited four books. He worked with Patricia Kaufert to develop the postgraduate degree (M.Sc. and Ph.D.) programs in Community Health Sciences and co-directed the graduate program for three years. He has been advisor to 28 masters and 5 doctoral students.
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