Elois A. Berlin

Background

Berlin, Elois A. was born on August 14, 1937 in Duncan, Oklahoma, United States. Daughter of Alva Paul Sanner and Flora Ann Uzzel.

Education

Associate of Arts in Nursing Science, Contra Costa College, San Pablo, California, 1972. Bachelor of Science in Anthropology, University California, Berkeley, 1976. Master of Arts in Anthropology, University California, Berkeley, 1977.

Master in Public Health in Epidemiology, University California, Berkeley, 1978. Doctor of Philosophy, University California, Berkeley, 1981.

Career

Field member, indigenous fertility regulation mechanisms section World Health Organization, Huampami, 1972—1974. Visiting assistant professor Columbia University, New York City, 1981—1982. Medical anthropologist South Bay Area Health Education Center, San Jose, 1981—1986.

Director, medical anthropology University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States Development Grant, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico, 1986—1987. Director, cross cultural medicine University California San Francisco School Medicine Residency Program, Salinas, 1988—1989. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Cesar Chavez visiting scholar Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1989—1990.

Co-principal investigator State Government Chiapas, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, 1988—1992. Research assistant National Institute Mental Health, Huampami, Peru, 1972—1976. Visiting senior investigator El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Mexico, 1992—2005.

Associate professor University Georgia, Athens, 1994—2006. Lecturer Stanford University School Medicine, California, 1981—1984, assistant professor, lecturer, 1981—1984. Co-investigator, parasitologic studies Permanente Medical Group, Kaiser Foundation, Huampami, 1976—1977.

Member Society Teachers Family Medicine, 1984—1987.

Achievements

• Elois A. Berlin has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Human rights committee member Veterans Administration Hospital, Menlo Park, California, 1985—1987. Board member Indian Health Center, San Jose, 1986—1987, advisory committee member, 1984—1985. Member of International Society Ethnobiology (president 2002-2004, secretary 1994-1996, executive secretary 1996—2002).

Connections

Married Overton Brent Berlin, March 4, 1957. Children: Saleena Tam Phillips, Andréa Mila.

Father:

Alva Paul Sanner

Mother:

Flora Ann Uzzel

Spouse:

Overton Brent Berlin

child:

Saleena Tam Phillips Berlin

child:

Andréa Mila Berlin