Background

After completing her PhD (2003, University of Amsterdam), Eileen Moyer began working as a lecturer in the Amsterdam Masters in Medical Anthropology program and as a post-doctoral researcher in the AIDS Medicines in Resource Poor Settings (now Anthropology of AIDS in the 21 st Century) research group at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, both at the University of Amsterdam. Since 2004 she has coordinated and managed five externally funded international research projects within the AIDS in the 21 st Century research group. In October 2008, she was appointed as an assistant professor in cultural and medical anthropology in the Sociology and Cultural Anthropology department. She continues her research, which focuses mainly on HIV/AIDS, youth, and urbanizing Africa, as a member of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, and is currently the research coordinator and project manager for the WOTRO-funded IntegratedProgram, Filling the Gap: Social institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia.   Her current research focuses on HIV patient activism in eastern Africa.

Research

For her PhD research Eileen Moyer did extensive anthropological fieldwork on the social worlds and health concerns of poor urban street youth in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since, she has been involved in comparative studies of access to health care for marginalized communities, focusing on HIV-related care and treatment, and sexual and reproductive health more generally among migrant populations. These studies involve anthropological fieldwork in diverse socio-cultural settings and at multiple levels: global, national and local. Most of her research has focused on eastern Africa, but she has also worked in Haiti and China.   Eileen Moyer has contributed to the development of community level participatory research methodologies and frameworks for use in applied settings and developed theoretical frameworks for analyzing the long-term societal impact of HIV on communities in high prevalence settings. She has also been involved in the training and guiding of researchers and in the comparative analysis of results from multi-sited research.   Currently, Eileen Moyer coordinates research activities and conducts her own research on community-based health activism within the international research program: Anthropology of AIDS in the 21 st Century.   

The following gives an overview of her main research contributions since 2004:

• Project manager, Senior Researcher, Research Coordinator.    Filling the Gap: Social Institutions and AIDS in Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia, WOTRO-Integrated Programme 2009-2013.
• Project Coordinator, lead researcher, technical advisor.   Learning by Doing: Enhancing treatment literacy and addressing sexual and reproductive health of PLWA in Eastern Africa, AIDSFonds, 2007-2011.
• Lead Qualitative Researcher. Young Labor Migrants in Three Chinese Cities: A demonstration intervention project to address barriers to health care and promote sexual and reproductive health.   Funded by European Union, 2006-2009.
• Field Research Coordinator for Kenya country study. Testing and Counseling for HIV: A Four-Country Study, United States National Institutes of Health (NIH). 2007-2009.
• Project manager, Lead Researcher, Research Coordinator. Social Aspects of Free AIDS Medicines in Public Health Care Settings in Tanzania and Zambia.   Funded by Swedish International Development Aid (SIDA), 2006-2007.

Publications

Published Papers

• Moyer, Eileen (In Press, available online 3/2012) Faidha Gani?   What's the Point:  HIV and the personal politics of (non)disclosure among activists in Zanzibar.   Culture, Health & Sexuality.
• Moyer, Eileen ( forthcoming, Spring 2012) Review of Morality, Hope and Grief:   Anthropologies of AIDS in Africa by Hansjörg Dilger and Ute Luig, eds. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
• Ciyong Lu, Longchang Xu, Jie Wu, Zhijin Wang, Peter Decat, Wei-Hong Zhang, Yimin Chen, Eileen Moyer, Shizhong Wu, Meilie Minkauskiene, Dirk van Brackel, Marleen Temmerman (2012) Sexual and reproductive health status and related knowledge among female migrant workers in Guangzhou, China: a cross-sectional survey. European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology . 160(1):60-65.
• Peter Decat, Wei-Hong Zhang, Eileen Moye r , Yimin Cheng, Zhi-jin Wang, Ci-yong Lu, Shi-zhong Wu, Ruta Jolanta Nadisauskiene, Stanley Luchters, Myriam Deveugele and Marleen Temmerman (2011) Determinants of unmet need for contraception among Chinese migrants: a worksite-based survey. The European Journal of Contraception and Reproductive Health Care 16(1) .
• Dian He, Cheng Pang, You Zhou, Shizhong Wu, Peter Decat,; Zhijin Wang, Eileen Moyer, Meile Minkauskiene and Yimin Cheng(2011) Study on Sexual and Reproductive Health Behavior of the Unmarried Female Migrant in China. The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research.
• Dian He, Yi-Min Cheng, Shi-Zhong Wu, Peter Decat, Zhi-Jin Wang, Meile Minkauskiene, and Eileen Moyer (2011) Promoting contraceptive use more effectively among unmarried male migrants in construction sites in China: a pilot intervention trial.   Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health.
• Moyer, Eileen (2009) "Death of the Mermaid and Political Intrigue in the Indian Ocean." In Sacred Waters: Arts for Mami Wata and Other Divinities in Africa and the Diaspora. John Henry Drewal, ed. Indiana University Press.  
• Moyer, Eileen (2006) "Not Quite the Comforts of Home:   Instituting locality among Dar es Salaam street youth." In Exploring the Wealth of African Neighborhoods:   The Sustainability and Creativity of Urban Life.   P. Konings and D. Foeken, eds. Leiden: Brill 
• Moyer, Eileen (2005) Street Corner Justice in the Name of Jah:   Imperatives for Peace among Dar es Salaam Street Youth. Africa Today 51(3). 
• Moyer, Eileen (2004a) PopularCartographies: Youthful Imagining of the Global in the Streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. City and Society 16(2):117-143.
• Moyer, Eileen (2004b) Keeping Up Appearances:   Fashion and Function among Dar es Salaam Street Youth.   Etnofoor 16(2):88-105.
• Moyer (2004c) Review of Witchcraft and Welfare: Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico by Raquel Romberg.   American Ethnologist 31(1):1024-5.

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