Selected Consulting
Projects
2001-2003
SolanoWORKS-WIC Nutrition Program, Health and Social Services
Department, Solano County, California. Dr. Davenport designed a
program evaluation using qualitative research methods for a special
WIC program for welfare-to-work mothers. She trained nutritionists
in basic principles of ethnographic research and writing, conducting
monthly workshops to help them develop their ethnographic write-ups
of their clients. She provided an overall data analysis, wrote the
executive summary, edited the ethnographic portraits written by the
nutritionists and integrated them into a comprehensive final report
produced for the Director of the Health and Social Services
Department.
Education
2004 Ph.D., Medical Anthropology,
University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley
1980 M.S.P.H.,
Health Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1978
A.B, Anthropology, Harvard UniversitySelected Publications
2003, “’If I Have Issues, You Are
There To Listen’: An Evaluation of the SolanoWORKS WIC Nutrition
Program,” with Solano County Health and Social Services Department
2000,
“Witnessing and the Medical Gaze: How Medical Students Learn to See
at a Free Clinic for the Homeless,” Medical Anthropology
Quarterly, 14(3):310-327.
1980, "Factors
Contributing to Artifactual Differences in Reported Mental Health
Costs," Administration and Mental Health, 10:1, with William
N. Zelman and Anthony Stone.
Selected Presentations
2004 “Driving
Driven: Urban Transit Operators, Hypertension and Stress(ed)
Management,” Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine
Seminar Series, University of California, San Francisco.
2004
“Occupational Health and the Illusion of ‘Wellness’: A Case Study,”
Society for Medical Anthropology and Society for Applied
Anthropology Joint Conference, Dallas, TX.
2003 “My Job
Makes Me Sick!: Discourses of Distress in Urban Transit Operators,”
paper presented at the University of California Institute for Labor
and Employment Fellowship Conference, Santa Barbara, California.
2003 “Becoming
a Field Worker,” guest speaker, Anthropology 211a, (field methods
class jointly offered by UCSF and UC Berkeley), Berkeley,
California.
2002
“Hypertension: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You,” guest speaker,
Communication Skills for Transit Employees class (Olivia Platford,
instructor), City College of San Francisco.
2001 “Working
with Hypertension,” keynote speaker, Peer Awards Banquet, Presidio
Division, San Francisco Municipal Railway, San Francisco,
California.
2001 “Woman
Care Plus, Reducing Barriers to Care for Large Women,” panel
moderator, California Conference on the Health of Black Women
sponsored by the Black Women’s Health Project, Berkeley, California.
1995 “Evaluating
Support Programs for Minority Medical Students,” paper presented,
National Association of Minority Medical Educators Conference,
Houston, Texas.
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