Background

Danny de Vries received his Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology (Human Ecology) at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) in the United States and a M.A.'s in Cultural Anthropology (at UNC-CH) and Social & Organizational Psychology from the University of Groningen. He is part of the group Anthropology of Health, Care and the Body, and affiliated to the Center for Social Sciences and Global Health (SSGH). Danny supports the NWO funded project "Developing Sustainable Community Health Resources in Poor Settings in Uganda" in the District of Luweero.

Danny is the coordinator of the interdisciplinary undergraduate minor (en ASW domain) "Global Health, Care and Society" for which he teaches the core course and manages the internship program. He also teaches courses in UvA Anthropology undergraduate program--such as the Anthropology of Disasters and Introduction to Medical Anthropology--and Global Health and Development within the Masters Medical Anthropology and Sociology (MAS) and UvA's International Development Studies program. He supervises students from various departments in topics related to global health, medical anthropology, human resources for health, historical and human ecology, disasters and emergency management, and program evaluation.

Danny's areas of expertise include North America (USA) and Subsaharan Africa. His research interest are in the history, memory and temporality of complex systems, in particular in relation to risk perception, emergency preparedness, and early warning. Another area of interest includes learning and evaluation in complex programmatic interventions. Danny has applied experience conducting research on human rights to health, human resources for health system strengthening, disaster risk mitigation / social vulnerability analysis, HIV/AIDS behavioral dynamics, nomadic pastoralist demography, and landscape preference.

Danny has worked as Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for the Dutch Aids Foundation led global health program "Bridging the Gaps", which focuses on the rights to health for drug users, sex workers and LGBT populations in 16 countries and is funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also worked as postdoctoral fellow at the Amsterdam Institute of Advanced Labors Studies (AIAS). In the United States he worked as Research Associate at UNC-CH's Center for Urban and Regional Studies and as Monitoring, Evaluation, and Research Manager for USAID's Human Resources for Health Capacity Project at the U.S. based non-profit IntraHealth International. During his Ph.D. studies in the USA he was a predoctoral socio-demographic trainee at UNC-CH's Carolina Population Center.

• Centre for Social Science and Global Health

• Bridging the Gaps: Health and Rights for Key Populations

• Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labor Studies

• IntraHealth Human Resources for Health Capacity Project

Research in Burgundy (France) on the historical ecology of the rural countryside (featuring Prof. C. Crumley)

• No ancillary activities