Research
Medical Anthropology
Global Health
Social Determinants of Health
Sub Saharan Africa
Climate Change
Ethnographic Research
Food Insecurity
Health Equity
Hiv/Aids
Qualitative Research
Hiv Stigma
Community Health Center, Community Health Centers
Western Kenya
Hiv Care Engagement
Social Care Interventions
Infectious Disease, Infectious Diseases
Social Care Program
Applied Anthropology
Global Public Health
Qualitative Data
Qualitative Study, Qualitative Studies
Hiv Related Stigma
Longitudinal Sexual Health Research Participation
Gender Politics
African Studies
Stigma Syndemics
Cultural Politics
Hiv Home Counseling
Intersecting Inequalities
Oral Histories, Oral History
Youth Hiv Services
Adolescent Health
Health Care
Implementation Sciences Approach
Urban Federally Qualified Health Centers
Mental Health Disorders
Hiv Testing
Biosocial Health
Mental Disorders
Reproductive Justice
Social Sciences, Social Science
Structural Racism
Youth Marginalities
Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Translational Science, Translational Sciences
Ethnographic Data Analysis
List of Publications (59)
In 2022
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2022 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. Viral Frictions: Global Health and the Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kenya. Rutgers University Press, Series in Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality and Social Justice. Read more about Viral Frictions here: Viral Frictions | Rutgers University Press Reviewed (September 1, 2022) by Onyegbu, Chantelle. "The Persistence of HIV Stigma in Kena." The Lancet Infectious Diseases 22/9:1292. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00535-7
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*indicates community health center worker as co-author 2022 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., Chelsea L. De Paula*, Wilson O. Flores*, and Alexandria J. Lavallee+.
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"Barriers to patients' acceptance of social care interventions in clinic settings." American Journal of Preventative Medicine 63(3S2):S116-S121. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2022.03.035
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2022 Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer and Sara Mendez.+ "Uncovering intersecting forms of discrimination during a social risk screening and social care program in a community health center in Rhode Island." SIREN National Research Meeting, Virtual, September 15.
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CONFERENCE POSTERS 2022 Courtney Myers, Edith Apondi, Mark Omollo, Salim Bakari, Josephine Aluoch, Alycia Felix, Elizabeth Pfeiffer, Dennis Fortenberry, Winstone M. Nyandiko, Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Rachel C. Vreeman, Leslie A. Enane. "Intersections of Stigma and Trauma Among Adolescents Disengaged from HIV Care in Kenya." International Workshop on HIV & Pediatrics. Montreal, Canada, July 28.
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In 2021
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2021 Humphrey, John M., Marsha Alera, Bett Kipchumba, Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, Julia Songok, Winfred Mwangi, Wycliffe Kosgei, Beverly Musick, Constantin Yiannoutsos, Juddy Wachira, and Kara Wools Kaloustian. "A Qualitative Study of the Barriers and Enhancers to Retention in Care for Pregnant and Postpartum Women with HIV." PLOS Global Public Health 1(10): e0000004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0000004.
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2021 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., and Harrison M. K. Maithya. "The Cultural Politics of Secrecy during HIV Home Counseling and Testing Campaigns in Kenya." Culture, Health & Sexuality 23(7):867-82. doi:10.1080/13691058.2020.1736632.
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2021 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Here is a stick of gum: Exploring the Challenges and Ethics of Screening for the Social Determinants of Health Needs of Patients in the Contexts of a Community Health Center and Global Pandemic in the United States." Session Title: Medicalizing Illness, Vulnerabilities, and Social Status. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD, November 17.
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Li, Canqi. "Elizabeth Pfeiffer discusses HIV Stigma in Western Kenya." The Brown Daily Herald, November 10. Available at https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/11/elizabeth-pfeiffer-discusses- hiv- stigma-in-western-kenya.
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In 2019
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2019 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Storytelling and the Persistence of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma in Kenya." Session Title: Global Story Tellers and Anthropologists: How Storytelling Practice Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer Page 7 of 18
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "The Meanings and Uses of Longitudinal Sexual Health Research Participation: Marking Liminal and Marginalized Identities and Negotiating Care and Life- Stage Transitions among Black Youth." Paper presented at the ACYIG/Rutgers 2019
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"Our Grantees: 2019 Funding Cycle." Social Interventions Research & Evaluation Network, University of California San Francisco. Available at Our Grantees | SIREN (ucsf.edu)
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In 2018
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2018 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "'The Post-Election Violence Has Brought Shame on This place': Narratives, Place, and Moral Violence in Western Kenya." African Studies Review 61(2):183- 209. doi:10.1017/asr.2017.117.
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2018 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., and Harrison M. K. Maithya. "Bewitching Sex Workers, Blaming Wives: HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and the Gender Politics of Panic in Western Kenya." Global Public Health 13(2):234-48. doi:10.1080/17441692.2016.1215484.
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2018 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Optimistic Frictions: Eradicating AIDS and (Re)Negotiating Gender Relations in Kenya." Proceedings of the African Futures Conference 2 (1):175-6. https://doi/10.1002/j.2573-508X.2018.tb000061.x.
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2018 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "STI Resiliency: Using the Tools of a Longitudinal Reproductive Health Research Study to Flourish." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Jose, CA, November 17.
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In 2017
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2017 Brian Joseph Gilley and Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer. "'White Man's Disease': American Indian AIDS Conspiracy Theories and the Refusal of Synthesis." Medicine Anthropology Theory 4(3):1-20. doi:10.17157/mat.4.3.456.
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2017 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., Harrison M. K. Maithya, Mary Ott, and Kara Wools-Kaloustian.
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2017 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Political Violence, HIV/AIDS, Morality, and the (Re)Production of Gender-Based Violence in Kenya." Paper presented during the panel "Rethinking Gender and Violence: Political Violence and Gendered Bodies," at the 77th Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, NM, March 31.
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2017 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Reimagining Stigma: HIV/AIDS, Mental Health Disorders, and Stigma Syndemics in Kenya." Poster presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Stigma, Washington, DC, November 17.
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In 2016
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2016 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., Kyle A. McGregor, Barbara Van Der Pol, Cathlene Hardy Hansen, and Mary A. Ott. "Willingness to Disclose STI Status to Sex Partners among College-Aged Men." Sexually Transmitted Diseases 43(3):204-6.
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2016 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "'She told me, "I'm HIV negative," so I knew that I was [HIV] negative': The Gender Politics of HIV Testing in Kenya." Paper presented at the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, November 18.
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In 2015
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and the Gender Politics of Panic in Kenya." Paper presented during the panel "The Intersections of Biomedicine and Gender in a Global World," at the 76th Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 2015 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Shifting Manifestations of HIV/AIDS-Related Stigma in Western Kenya." Paper presented during the panel "The Biosociocultural Trajectory of Stigma," at the 114th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 22.
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Available at http://dissertationreviews.org/2015/01/hiv-stigma-and- globalization- in- kenya/.
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In 2014
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2014 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Viral Stories: Studying AIDS-Related Stigma in Western Kenya." Essay featured on Medical Anthropology Students' Association [MASA], a special interest blog of the Society for Medical Anthropology, April 13, 2014. Available at http://www.medanthro.net/masa/2014/04/30/jstillo-4/.
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2014 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth, Harrison M. K. Maithya, Violet Naanyu-Ayha, Thomas S. Inui, and John Sidle. "'The P.E.V. [post-election violence] has brought shame to us all': AIDS-Related Stigma in the Context of Ethnic and Political Tensions and Insecurities in Western Kenya." Paper Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer Page 8 of 18 presented at the 57th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Indianapolis, IN, November 22.
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In 2012
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2012 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Competing Moralities in Neoliberal Kenya: HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and Sexuality." Paper presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 14.
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2012 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth, Violet Naanyu, Harrison M. K. Maithya, Thomas S. Inui, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and John Sidle. "Understanding the Social and Structural Processes of AIDS- Related Stigma and Discrimination. " Poster presented at the National Pre-Doctoral Clinical and Translational Sciences Annual Meeting, Rochester, MN, May.
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In 2011
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2011 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Changing the Lives of Women in Western Kenya: HIV/AIDS and Public Health Discourses." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 30.
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2011 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth, Violet Naanyu, Harrison M. K. Maithya, Thomas S. Inui, Bernice A. Pescosolido, and John Sidle. "Understanding the Social and Structural Processes of AIDS- Related Stigma and Discrimination: Reducing Barriers to HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment, and Recovery in Western Kenya." Poster presented at the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute Annual Bloomington Retreat, Bloomington, IN, October.
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In 2009
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2009 Ott, Mary A., and Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer. "'That's Nasty' to Curiosity: Early Adolescent Views of Abstinence and Sex." Journal of Adolescent Health 44(6):575-81.
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2009 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. and Wm. Dustin Cantrell. Our Jamaica: Voices from Within. Huron, OH: Drinian Press.
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2009 Ott, Mary A., Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, E. M. Meslin, P. Z. Brand, T. A. Johnson, and J. Dennis Fortenberry. "Time to Rethink Benefit-Harm Approach to Research with Adolescents on Socially Sensitive Topics?" Poster presented at the Seattle Children's 2009 Bioethics Conference, Seattle, WA, July.
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In 2008
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2008 Cantrell, Wm. Dustin, and Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer. Our World, Our Stories: Theodora Reader.
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2008 Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J., and William Dustin Cantrell. "Our World, Our Stories: Anthropological Field Trip in Jamaica." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, March 29.
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In 2006
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2006 Ott, Mary A., Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, and J. Dennis Fortenberry. "Early and Middle Adolescent Perceptions of Abstinence." Journal of Adolescent Health 39(2):192-8.
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2006 Kahn, Hilary E., and Elizabeth (Libby) Pfeiffer. Reaching Out to and Understanding the World: Culture and Service in Jamaica. International IUPUI 1(2):18-19. https://archives.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/2450/4980/International%20IUPUI%20The%20Stu dy%20Abroad%20Issue.pdf?sequence=1.
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2006 Ott, Mary A., Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer, and J. Dennis Fortenberry. "'That's Nasty' to Curiosity: Early Adolescent Views of Abstinence and Sex." Paper presented at the Society for Research on Adolescents 2006 Biennial Meeting, San Francisco, CA, March.
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Unspecified
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Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer Page 3 of 18
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"Dangerous Bodies, Unpredictable Minds: HIV/AIDS, Mental Disorders, and Stigma Syndemics in Western Kenya." In Foundations of Biosocial Health: Stigma and Illness Interactions, edited by Shir Lerman, Bayla Ostrach, and Merrill Singer, 133-56. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
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(Under re-review) Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Narratives of Reproductive Justice among Black Youth in the United States." Medical Anthropology.
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JOURNAL ARTICLE AND BOOK CHAPTER (IN PREPARATION)
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Structural Racism, Intersectionality, and Medicalizing Social Care in a Community Health Center in the United States." Social Science & Medicine.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. and Harrison M.K. Maithya. "HIV's Chronicities during the COVID-19
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Pandemic in Kenya." Invited chapter for inclusion in the forthcoming book project, COVID's Chronicities, edited by Lenore Manderson and Nancy Burke.
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(Abstract under review) Leslie A. Enane, Edith Apondi, Courtney Myers, Hunter Saporiti, Judith J. Toromo, Josephine Aluoch, Elizabeth Pfeiffer, Kara Wools-Kaloustian, Rachel C. Vreeman. "Trauma, Stigma, and HIV Care Engagement Among Adolescents in Kenya: A Synthesis of Qualitative Data." American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 17-22.
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Intersects Contemporary Struggles, Collaborations, and Justice. AAA/CASCA Annual Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 22.
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Edelman, Elijah Adiv, and Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer. "Pedagogical Failures of (and possibilities for) Applied, Public, and Collaborative Anthropology. " Session Title: Changing the Climate of Anthropology in Higher Education. AAA/CASCA Annual Meetings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, November 21.
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Conference on Rethinking Child and Youth Marginalities, Camden, NJ, March 7.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Optimistic Frictions: Eradicating AIDS and (Re)Negotiating Gender Relations in Kenya." Paper presented at the second joint conference of the African Studies Association and the American Anthropological Association on Africa in the World, Johannesburg, South Africa, May 26.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "The Power of Words: HIV/AIDS and the (Re)Production of Gender Politics in Kenya." Paper presented at Lavender Linguistics 25, Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, April 22.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Becoming Subjects: The Agency of Young Women Engaged in a Longitudinal Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in the United States." Paper presented at the 78th Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Philadelpia, PA, April 4.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "The Power of Words: HIV/AIDS, Gossip, and Gender Politics in Western Kenya." Paper presented at the Central States Anthropological Society Annual Conference, Kansas City, MO, April 22.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "Becoming a Sex Worker in Western Kenya: Empowerment, Stigma, and HIV/AIDS." Paper presented at the Anthropology Student Research Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 26.
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Pfeiffer, Elizabeth J. "HIV/AIDS and Risk: Understanding Women's Vulnerabilities in Western Kenya." Anthropology Department Summer Research Presentation, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 15.
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Cantrell, William Dustin, and Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer. "Improving Correctional Education from the Inside: An Applied Project." Paper presented at the Society for Applied Anthropology Annual Meeting, Memphis, TN, March 29.
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Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer Page 9 of 18
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Winchester, Margaret. "A Review of Viral Stories: HIV/AIDS, Stigma, and Globalization in Kenya, by Elizabeth J. Pfeiffer." Dissertation Reviews, January 13.
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Connors-Manke, Beth. "Anthropology Class Led Pfeiffer around the World." The Hanoverian 17 (2): 20. Available at http://issuu.com/hanover/docs/hanoverian_spring_09.
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