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| Yewoubdar Beyene |
Email: yewoubdar.beyene@ucsf.edu
Telephone: (415) 502-5254
Yewoubdar Beyene, Ph.D., is Associate Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
She is a medical anthropologist whose areas of expertise include biocultural anthropology, women's reproductive health (in both developed and developing countries), fertility, human development and aging, menopause and osteoporosis, minority aging, chronic illness, immigrant and refugee health, and health care beliefs and practices of traditional cultures.
Dr. Beyene has conducted her research in Ethiopia, Mexico, Greece, the United States, and in Cameroon.
Title: Gender, Age, and Ethnicity in Chronic Illness Management
Project Period: 9/1/05-5/31/09
Funding Agency: NIH/NIA
Description: The overall aim of this qualitative, anthropological
research project is to explore the relationship between gender, age, and
ethnicity among people who live with chronic illness.
Title: Ideas for Community Input for Effective HIV Prevention
Project Period: 9/1/05-8/31/07
Funding Agency: University of California-University Aids Research Program
Description: This study (1) explores cultural response to an
existing basic HIV transmission prevention training module and the
acceptability of the format and working of the various topics addressed,
and (2) integrates community input into the intervention module to
develop a culturally informed educational intervention that can be used
by African immigrant communities within California.
Title: Cultural Responses to Illness in the Minority Aged
Project Period: 10/1/93-8/31/04 (Co-Investigator)
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health and National Institute
on Aging
Description: To discover and examine minority elder's cultural
responses to illness, including: experience of illness, cultural
meanings minority elder's and their families attach to old age, and
community resources, formal and informal that are considered or utilized
in specific situations.
Title: Knowledge and Risk of HIV/AIDS Among African Immigrants
Project Period: 7/1/99-6/30/02
Funding Agency: University of California-University Aids Research Program
Description: To examine knowledge about how HIV is transmitted; beliefs, attitudes about HIV; perceived risk for HIV infection; HIV risk behaviors and cultural factors impeding HIV prevention education among African immigrants in California.
Title: Beliefs and Risks of Breast Cancer in African Immigrants
Project Period: 7/1/99-6/30/02
Funding Agency: University of California-Breast Cancer Research Program
Description: To examine beliefs and knowledge of breast cancer symptoms, cultural
beliefs and attitudes of African immigrant women of body parts such
as the breasts, and their views on loss of body parts.
Describe and compare cultural similarities and differences among
African immigrant women in regards to breast cancer etiology, risk
and treatment choices.
Title: Bio-behavioral Health in Diverse Mid-Life Women
Project Period: 09/01/95-07/31/02
Funding Agency: National Institute for Nursing Research
(NINR)
Description: To examine and describe menopausal experiences of persons of
multi-ethnic groups that includes: ethnic groups (Mexican-Americans,
Anglo-Americans, African-Americans), biopsychosocial cultural
environment and the patterns of change over time.
Title: Meanings of Chronicity & Age for Ethnic Minorities
Project Period: 7/1/97-6/30/01 (Co-Investigator)
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (NIH) and National Institute on Aging
Description: To examine the complex interaction of ethnicity and health through
the exploration meanings of chronicity and age for ethnic
minorities.
Title: Age & Illness Management in Later Life
Project Period: 8/1/99-7/31/00 (Co-Investigator)
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health and National Institute on Aging
Description: The overall aim of this anthropological research is
to explore the experience of
chronic illness,
including the bodily distress caused by the onset or exacerbation of a
chronic illness in later life and the cultural meanings that people who
have a chronic illness attach to their illness.
Title: Factors that Maintain Postpartum Anovulation
Project Period: 8/1/96-7/31/00
Funding Agency: National Institute of Health (collaborator
and consultant)
Description: This cross-cultural project examines the relationship between infant
suckling behavior (frequency, duration, interval) and resumption of
cyclic ovarian function after childbirth in the U.S. and the
Cameroon. The project integrates biological and cultural data in
order to understand biocultural factors that influence postpartum
anovulation.
1989 Beyene Y: From Menarche to Menopause: Reproductive Lives of Peasant Women in Two Cultures. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Beyene, Y, Lee, K. and C, Gilliss. “I take the good and the bad and I moisturize”: Defying middle age in the millennium. The Journal of the North American Menopause Society, volume 14(4) July/August 2007 (in press).
Lee, K, Beyene, Y, Paparrigopoulos, T, Ditis, D, & Soldatos, C. Gender differences in napping behavior in urban Greece. The Journal of Biological Research for Nursing, July 2007 (in press).
Beyene, Y. Cultural Barriers to HIV prevention among African Immigrants in California (forthcoming).
Beyene, Y. Dynamics of Globalization and Bride Price in Africa: Predicaments for HIV Prevention Efforts in NW Cameroon 2007 (forthcoming).
Beyene, Y. Cultural beliefs and understanding of HIV/AIDS among indigenous healers in Ndu, NW Cameroon. 2006 (forthcoming).
Beyene, Y, and Facion, N. Cultural barriers to early breast cancer detection among African immigrants in California 2007 (forthcoming).
Beyene, Y. Preserving cultural integrity through analysis of qualitative data. In Improving Aging and Public Health Research: Qualitative and Mixed Methods. L. Curry, R. Shield and T. Wetle, Eds. American Public Health Association, 2006, pp.103-115.
Beyene, Y. Clinical Care for Ethiopian and Eritrean Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S. In: Culture and Clinical Care. S. Dibble and J. Lipson, Eds. San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 2005, pp. 163-176.
Beyene, Y. Potential HIV Risk Behaviors among Ethiopians and Eritreans in The Diaspora: A Bird's Eye View. Journal of Northeast African Studies 2000; vol. 7 no 2:119-142. (actual date of publication 2004)
Beyene, Y. Caring for Ethiopian and Eritrean Women: An assessment guide. In P. Hill, J. Lipson and A. Meleis (Eds.). Caring for Women Cross-Culturally. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company, 2003, pp. 142-155.
Becker, G, Beyene, Y, Newsom E, and Mayen, N. Creating continuity through mutual assistance: intergenerational reciprocity in four ethnic groups. The Journal of Gerontology B Psychol Sci Sco Sci, 2003; 58 (3) :S151-9.
Beyene, Y., Becker, G. and Mayen, N. Perceptions of aging and sense of well-being among Latino elderly. Journal of Cross-Cultural Gerontology, 2002; 17:155-172.
Beyene, Y. Knowledge and Risks of HIV/AIDS Among African Immigrants Final Report to University-wide AIDS Research Program, 2002.
Beyene, Y. Beliefs and Risks of Breast Cancer among African Immigrants. Final Report to the California Breast Cancer Research Program, 2002.
Beyene, Y. and Martin, C. Menopausal xperiences and bone density of Mayan women In Yucatan, Mexico. American Journal of Human Biology, 2001; 13:505-511.
Gilliss, C, Lee, K, Gutierrez, Y, Murrell, N, Taylor, D, Beyene, Y, & Neuhaus, J. Recruitment and retention of healthy minority women into longitudinal community based studies. J. Women's Healthand Gender Besd Med, 2001; 10(1):77-85.
Becker, G., Beyene, Y., and Ken, P. Health, Welfare Reform, and Narratives of Uncertainty Among Cambodian Refugees. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 2000; 24:139-163.
Becker, G., Beyene, Y, & Canalita, L. Immigration in Late Life: Filipino American Veterans' Expectations and Experiences. Journal of Aging Studies, 2000; 14(3):273-291
Becker, G,, Beyene, Y,, & Ken, P. Memory, Trauma, and Embodied Distress: The Management of Disruption in a Cambodian Refugees' Story. Ethos: Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2000; 28 (3): 320-345.
Becker, G., Beyene, Y., and Canalita, L.C. Immigrating for Status in Late Life: Effects of Globalization on Filipino American Veterans. Journal of Aging Studies, 2000; 14:273-291.
Becker, G. and Beyene, Y. Narratives of Age and Uprootedness Among Older Cambodian Refugees. Journal of Aging Studies, 1999; 13 (3): 295-314.
Becker, G., Beyene, Y., Newsom, E., and Rogers, D.V. Knowledge and Care of Chronic Illness in Three Ethnic Minority Groups. BioMedicina: The Journal of the Hispano-American Biomedical Association, 1999; 2(7): 339-41 (reprinted from Family Medicine).
Lee, KA, Taylor, D, Gilliss, C, Gutierrez, Y, Beyene, Y., Murrell, N & Neuhaus, J. Longitudinal changes in sleep during menopausal transition. Sleep, 1999; 21(Supplement), p.277.
Beyene, Y. Social and Cultural Aspects of Menopause. In Nancy Avis (Ed). The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy CD-ROM. Institute for Women's Research, NERI, and SilverPlatter International/Education, Inc., New York, 1998.
Becker, G., Beyene, Y., Newsom, E., and Rogers, D.V. Knowledge and Care of Chronic Illness in Three Ethnic Minority Groups. Family Medicine, 1998; 30:173-178.
Beyene, Y. Caring for Ethiopians and Eritrean Immigrants and Refugees in the U.S. In: Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide. S. Dibble and J. Lipson, Eds. San Francisco: UCSF Nursing Press, 1997, pp. 101-114.
Sperling S. and Beyene, Y. A Pound of Biology and a Pinch of Culture or a Pinch of Biology and a Pound of Culture? The necessity of integrating Biology and Culture in Reproductive Studies. In: Lori Hager ed. Women in Evolution. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 137-152.
The Nature of Things. David Suzuki producer, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, March 5, 1998, by David Suzuki (Public Television Program).
KRON Channel 4, "Health Matters", August 16, 1996, by Pam Moore.
Harvard Health Letters, September, 1993, by Maryland Eleas.
KPFA, Public Broadcasting, Berkeley, CA., by Macria Kerwitz, aired on Dec. 8, 1993.
Health News, The Washington Post, November 3, 1992, by Don Colburn.
The Journal, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Margaret Slaght producer, September 28-29, 1992 (Public Television Program).
Newsweek, by Todd Barrett, May 25, 1992,
Moxie: For Women Over Forty, by Bettyann Kevles, April, 1990.
Ethiopian Radio Station, AA, ETH. Guest of the Week, E. Mekuria, 1989.
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