ABOUT EJ SOBO

E. J. Sobo, a socio-cultural anthropologist, specializes in health, illness, and medicine.  Her areas of interest include biomedical and other medical cultures, organizational issues in healthcare, patient-provider communication, disparities and cultural competence in health care, health-related stigma and identity, risk perception, reproductive and sexual health, childhood and child health, nutrition and foodways, qualitative methods (including both ethnographic and rapid assessment methods), and Jamaican culture.  She is presently researching organizational context and the implementation of evidence-based practice within the Veterans Health Administration, and she is investigating the ways that parents of chronically ill or disabled children experience and learn to manage the healthcare system.  

EDUCATION

Dr. Sobo earned her Ph.D. in anthropology at UCSD (1990).  She received post-doctoral training in medical anthropology at Case Western Reserve University (1991-1993).  In addition to these formal educational experiences, Dr. Sobo has learned much while ‘on the job’ as a scholar and a teacher.