Publications

2022    Strong, A. and E. Varley. Bodies in Peril: Healthcare workers on the frontlines of global maternal health interventions. Global Public Health, special issue. Accepted.

2022    Strong, A. Routinized caring or a “call” to nursing?: Intergenerational Shifts and Continuities in Nursing in Rukwa, Tanzania in In and Out of Biomedicine: Anthropology in the Hospital, eds. William Olsen and Carolyn Sargent, Rutgers, NJ: Rutgers University Press.

2021    Strong, A. Maternal Mortality in Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Reproduction, Sallie Han and Cecilia Tomori, eds.

2021    Strong, A. and T.L. White. Re-examining local norms of care and abuse in the second stage of labor in Tanzanian maternity care, Medical Anthropology 40(4): 307-321. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1884075

2020    Strong, A. Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. Available for free download  (linked to this: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520310704/documenting-death)

  • Winner of the 2021 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology
  • Honorable mention for the 2021 Adele E. Clarke Book Award from ReproNet

2020    Strong, A. and T.L. White. Using paired cultural modeling and cultural consensus analysis to maximize program suitability in local contexts. Health Policy and Planning 35(1): 115-121. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czz096 

2019    Strong, A., M. Cogburn, and S. Wood. “Tanzania” in Birth in 8 Cultures. Eds. R. Davis-Floyd and M. CheyneyLong Grove, IL: Waveland Press.

2018 Strong, A. Causes and effects of occupational risk for healthcare workers on the maternity ward of a Tanzanian hospital. Human Organization 77(23): 273-286.

2018 Strong, A. and D.A. Schwartz. Effects of the Ebola epidemic on health care of pregnant women- Stigmatization with and without infection. In Pregnant in the Time of Ebola. Women and Their Children in the 2013-2015 West African Epidemic, Eds. D.A. Schwartz, S. Abramowitz, and J. Anoko. New York, NY: Springer.

2016 Strong, A. Working in Scarcity: Effects on social interactions and biomedical care in Rukwa, Tanzania. Social Science & Medicine 172:217-224. DOI:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.010

2016 Strong, A. and D.A. Schwartz. Anthropological aspects of risk to pregnant women during the 2013-2015 multinational Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa. Health Care for Women International 36(8): 922-942. DOI:10.1080/07399332.2016.1167896

2015 Strong, A. “The convergence of social and institutional dynamics resulting in maternal death in Rukwa, Tanzania” in Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventative Strategies for Pregnancy- Related Death. Ed. David Schwartz. Nova Science Publishers

2015 Marwa, S. and A. Strong. “Three case studies and experiences of maternal death at a regional referral hospital in Rukwa, Tanzania” in Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries and Preventative Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Death. Ed. David Schwartz. Nova Science Publishers

Public Anthropology and Other Publications

2020    “COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)/Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH): Round 2,” online collection through Medical Anthropology Quarterly, co-curated with Dr. Emma Varley, Brandon University. August 12, 2020. http://medanthroquarterly.org/2020/08/12/covid-19-and-srh-mnh-a-curated-online-collection-for-medical-anthropology-quarterly-2/

2020    “COVID-19 and Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH)/Maternal and Newborn Health (MNH): Round 1,” online collection through Medical Anthropology Quarterly, co-curated with Dr. Emma Varley, Brandon University. June 19, 2020 http://medanthroquarterly.org/2020/06/19/covid-19-and-sexual-and-reproductive-health-srh-maternal-and-newborn-health-mnh-a-curated-online-collection/

2016    “Maternal Health: A Dangerous Birth,” photoessay on SAPIENS.org 19 October 2016 http://www.sapiens.org/culture/maternal-death-rate-tanzania/

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