Visiting Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies Lenore Manderson was recently awarded the prestigious Career Achievement Award of the American Anthropological Association's Society for Medical Anthropology.

This award honors an individual who has advanced the field of medical anthropology through career-long contributions to theory or method, and who has been successful in communicating the relevance of medical anthropology to broader publics. The award was announced with the following summary:

Lenore's wide-ranging and effective promotion of medical anthropology at high levels in the global health agency architecture in so many different capacities is unique and has profoundly improved our subdiscipline's engagement with policymakers, implementers, and agenda setters.

Manderson convenes the annual IBES conference Earth, Itself, which focuses on the connections between art and science. Find more information about this event.