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Norma
C. Ware is a medical anthropologist and Associate Professor in the Departments
of Psychiatry and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She divides
her time principally between independent research activities and mentoring
junior mental health services researchers interested in medical anthropology
and qualitative methods.
Dr. Ware's research centers on two topics. The first is the social course
of chronic illness. This effort began in 1988, when, as an NIMH postdoctoral
fellow, she conducted an interview study of social influences on illness
experience in chronic fatigue syndrome under the tutelage of Arthur
Kleinman. This work led to a longitudinal study entitled, "Social
Course of CFS," supported by the National Institute for Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, and more recently to a study of the "Social
Course of Adherence to HAART in Active Illegal Drug Users with HIV/AIDS,"
funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Dr. Ware's independent research on mental health services began with
an NIMH-supported project to develop a measure of continuity of care
using data from an ethnographic study. Additional funding provided an
opportunity to examine the cultural relevance of the measure for ethnic
minorities living in the continental United States. The measure has
been translated and adapted for exclusively Spanish speaking populations.
It is about to be made available for public use.
These two lines of research are presently converging in a project designed
to trace the social course of recovery from schizophrenia.
Since 1999, Dr. Ware has been a member of the NIMH Services Research
Review Committee. She is involved in active collaborations with researchers
at the Center for Mental Health Services Research at Rutgers University,
the Center for Mental Health Services Research at the University of
Maryland, the Latino Research Program Project at the University of Puerto
Rico, the Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation at Boston University,
and the Center for the Study of Issues in Public Mental Health at the
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research.
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