Carl Kendall
professor; director of Center for Global Health Equity

Department(s):
Global and Community Health - BSPH
International Health and Development

Email:
ckendall@tulane.edu

Research Interests:
Applied Medical Anthropology, Health Disparities, Monitoring and Evaluation, International Public Health Capacity Building, RDS

Professional Achievements:
Fulbright Senior Scholar, 2006-

Member, Institute of Medicine, Board of Global Health, December 2007 - September 2008

Member, Border Health Research Advisory Group U.S. - Mexico Border Health Commission, September 2007-8

Invited Panelist, La revue Humanitaire, Paris, à La Maison des Associations du 18ème arrondissement 15, passage Ramey 75 018 Paris, May 31, 2007

Invited Panelist, The World Federation of Public Health Associations and the Brazilian Association of Post Graduate Education in Collective Health/ABRASCO annual meeting, August 21-25, 2006

2002-2007 (annually) Distinction in Research Awards, Tulane University

2002-2005 Acting Chair, Department of International Health and Development, Tulane University

2005-present Executive Committee, Partnership for the Transformation of Urban Communities, Tulane University

2005-present Executive Board, Payson Center for International Development and Technology, Tulane University

Educational Background:
PhD, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
MA, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
BA, Swarthmore College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Publications:
Chopra M, Townsend L, Johnston L, Mathews C, Tomlinson M, O'bra H, Kendall C. Estimating HIV prevalence and risk behaviors among high-risk heterosexual men with multiple sex partners: use of respondent-driven sampling. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2009 Mar 11.

Kendall C, Aimee Afable-Munsuz, Ilene Speizer, Alexis Avery, Norine Schmidt, John Santelli. Understanding pregnancy in a population of inner-city women in New Orleans-Results of Qualitative Research. Inhorn, M. And R. Hahn (eds.) Anthropology and Public Health, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Macintyre K, Kendall C. Steps to a new theory of social proximity of the HIV epidemic and behavior change, in Aids, Culture and Africa. Feldman, D. (ed.), University Press of Florida, 2008.

Eisele TP, Mathews C, Chopra M, Lurie MN, Brown L, Dewing S, Kendall C. Changes in Risk Behavior Among HIV-Positive Patients During Their First Year of Antiretroviral Therapy in Cape Town South Africa. AIDS Behav. 2008 Oct 10; [Epub ahead of print]

Gondim RC; Kerr, LR; Werneck, GL; Macena, RH, Pontes C., Kendall C. Práticas sexuais de risco de homens que fazem sexo com homens no Nordeste do Brasil: resultados de quatro inquéritos seqüenciais. (Risky sexual practices of men who have sex with men in northeast Brazil: results from four sequential surveys.) Cadernos de Saúde Pública (in press).

Malekinejad,M.; Johnston,L.G.; Kendall,C.; Kerr,L.R.; Rifkin,M.R.; Rutherford,G.W. et al. 2008 Using Respondent-Driven Sampling Methodology for HIV Biological and Behavioral Surveillance in International Settings: A Systematic Review. AIDS Behav. 2008 June 17 [Epub ahead of print]

Johnston LG, Malekinejad M, Kendall C, Iuppa IM, Rutherford GW. Implementation challenges to using respondent-driven sampling methodology for HIV biological and behavioral surveillance: field experiences in international settings. AIDS Behav. 2008 Jul;12(4 Suppl):S131-41. Epub 2008 Jun 6.

Kendall,C.; Kerr,L.R.; Gondim,R.C.; Werneck,G.L.; Macena,R.H.; Pontes,M.K.; Johnston,L.G.; Sabin,K.; McFarland,W. An Empirical Comparison of Respondent-driven Sampling, Time Location Sampling, and Snowball Sampling for Behavioral Surveillance in Men Who Have Sex with Men, Fortaleza, Brazil. AIDS Behav.. 2008 April 4 [Epub ahead of print]

Johnston,L.; O'Bra,H.; Chopra,M.; Mathews,C.; Townsend,L.; Sabin,K.; Tomlinson,M.; Kendall,C. The Associations of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Acceptance and the Perceived Likelihood of Being HIV-Infected Among Men with Perceived Likelihood of Being HIV-Infected Among Men with Multiple Sex Partners in a South African Township. AIDS Behav. 2008 February 13 [Epub ahead of print]

Adongo PB, Kendall C, Kirkwood B. Malaria Control and the Domestic Context: The Influence of Human Behavior on the Effectiveness of Insecticide Treated Nets Use (ITNS) in Northern Ghana; in DA Flanigan (ed.) Malaria Research Trends. Nova Scientific Publishing, pp. 179-196, 2007.

Lungiswa LL Nkonki, Tanya TM Doherty, Zelee Z Hill, Mickey M Chopra, Nikki N Schaay and C Kendall. Missed opportunities for participation in prevention of mother to child transmission programmes: simplicity of nevirapine does not necessarily lead to optimal uptake. A qualitative study. AIDS Research and Therapy, 4:27, 22 Nov 2007

Hill Zelee, Kirkwood B, Kendall C, Adjei E, Arthur P, Agyemang CT. Factors that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation among women in Ghana. Public Health Nutr July 2007. 10(8):827-833

Oliveira F, Kerr L, Frota A, Nóbrega A, Bruno Z, Leitão T, Kendall C, Galvão M,.HIV-positive women in northeast Brazil: Tubal sterilization, medical recommendation and reproductive rights, AIDS Care, Nov;19(10):1258-65, Nov 2007

Eisele, TP., M Chopra, C Mathews, L Brown, E Silvestre, V Diaries, C Kendall. High levels of risk behavior reported among people living with HIV initiating and waiting to start antiretroviral therapy in Cape Town South Africa. AIDS Behav., 10.1007/c10461-007-9279-7, 17 July 2007

Hill, Z, B Kirkwood, C Kendall, E Adjei, P Arthur, C Tawiah, Factors that affect the adoption and maintenance of weekly vitamin A supplementation among women in Ghana, Public Health Nutrition 10, 8:827-833, August 2007

Aglaêr A, L Kerr-Pontes; F Oliveira, M Galvão, R Mota, R Barbosa, I Dourado, C Kendall, Desire for a child among women living with HIV/AIDS in northeast Brazil. AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 21, 4:261-267, April 2007

Brown, L, T Thurman, J Bloem, C Kendall, Sexual Violence in Lesotho. Studies in Family Planning, 37, 4:1-12, December 2006
dimensions of pregnancy Intentions among women choosing to terminate or initiate prenatal care in New Orleans, Lousiana. American Journal of Public Health, vol. 96, 11:2009-2015, November 2006

Chopra, M, C Kendall, Z Hill, N Schaay, L Nkonki, T Doherty, Nothing New: responses to the introduction of Antiretroviral drugs in South Africa. AIDS, 20:1975–1986, 2006

Iuliano, D, I Speizer, J Santelli, C Kendall, Reasons for contraceptive nonuse at first sex and unintended pregnancy. American Journal of Health Behavior, vol. 30(1): 92-102, January 2006

Kendall C “Waste not, want not: penny capitalism and global lessons for water use from Lima, Peru” in L Whiteford and S Whiteford (eds.) New Advances in Water and Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico: School of American Research Press (2005)

Afable-Munsuz A, I Speizer, J H Magnus, C Kendall, Is a Positive Orientation Toward Early Motherhood Associated with Self Reported Unintended Pregnancy Experience in a Population of Urban African-American Adolescents? Maternal and Child Health Journal, published online 28 December 2005.

Philip B. Adongo, B Kirkwood and C Kendall, How local community knowledge about malaria affects insecticide-treated net use in northern Ghana. Tropical Medicine and International Health, vol. 10 no 3 pp 1–12, 2005

Kendall C, A Afable, A Avery, N Schmidt, I Speizer, J Santelli. Understanding pregnancy in a population of young African American women in New Orleans: Results of qualitative research. Social Science and Medicine, vol. 60, 2, 297-311, January 2005.

Kendall C “Waste not, want not: penny capitalism and global lessons for water use from Lima, Peru” in L Whiteford and S Whiteford (eds.) New Advances in Water and Anthropology, School of American Research Press 2005

Speizer I, J Santelli, A Afable-Munsuz, C Kendall. Methods for Measuring Pregnancy Intentions of Women’s First and Last Pregnancies, Perspectives of Sexual and Reproductive Health, vol 36, 5, Sept/October 2004

Kerr-Pontes, LRS, F Gonzalez, C Kendall, et al. The role of migration in HIV prevention in Northeast Brazil. Cadernos de
Saúde Pública, Rio de Janeiro, 20(1):320-328, jan-fev. 2004

Hill, Z, C Kendall, J Volle, M Fernandez, P Kissinger and S Hassig. Patterns of adherence to antiretrovirals: why adherence has no simple measure. AIDS Patient Care, 2003, 17,10:1-8

Hill, Z, C Kendall, P Arthur, B Kirkwood, E Adjei. Recognising Symptoms and or Recognising Traditional Illnesses: Exploring Options for Care Seeking Interventions in Rural Ghana. Tropical Medicine and International Health, 2003, 8(7):668-676

Kendall C and E Zielinski, “The Globalization of Disease” in Albrecht, Gary L. Ray Fitzpatrick and Susan C. Scrimshaw (eds.) Handbook of Social Studies in Health and Medicine, London: SAGE Publications (2000)

Kendall C, E Zielinski, P Farmer “Social and Cultural Factors in Tropical Medicine: Reframing our understanding of Disease” in Guerrant et al. Tropical Infectious Diseases: Principles, Pathogens and Practice, Churchill Livingstone (1999)

Contributing author. Panel on Data and Research Priorities for Arresting AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa, Institute of Medicine. Preventing and Mitigating AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Research and Data Priorities for the Social and Behavioral Research and Data Priorities for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 1996.

Contributing author. Institute of Medicine. Malaria: Setting a Course for the Future: A Report of the Committee for the Study on Malaria Prevention and Control, Institute of Medicine, Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 1991.

M Nichter and C Kendall. (eds.) International Health. Special Volume, Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 5(3): 1991.

Huntington, D., P. Berman and C Kendall. Health Interview Surveys for Child Survival Programs: A Review of Methods, Instruments and Proposals for Their Improvement, Institute for International Programs, Johns Hopkins University, Occasional Paper Series, No. 6., June 1989.

Kendall C., J. Hawkins, and L. Bossen. (Eds.) Heritage of Conquest: Thirty Years Later. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1983. Translated into Spanish as Kendall C., J. Hawkins, and L. Bossen. (Eds.) La Herencia de la Conquista: 30 Años Después. Fondo de Cultura Económica, S.A. de C.V., Mexico, D.F. 1986.

Kendall C. Operational Research Guidelines. Monograph commissioned by the Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme,
World Health Organization, 1983.

Kendall C. Techniques for Small-Scale Operational Research. Monograph commissioned by Diarrhoeal Diseases Control Programme, World Health Organization. 1983.

Personal Statement:
Carl Kendall is a medical anthropologist with more than thirty years of experience in international health. Kendall first joined the department in 1993, after moving from Johns Hopkins University department of international health where he was director of the Center for International Community-Based Health Research. From 1998 to 2000 he served as head of the maternal and child epidemiology unit, department of epidemiology and population health, at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. From 2007-2008 he served as the Stan Fulton Chair of Health Disparities at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico. His prior positions include serving as chief of the behavioral research unit, AIDS Control and Prevention Project (AIDSCAP), sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development.

Kendall has served on a number of professional panels: governing council of the American Public Health Association 1999 to 2001; surveillance advisory group, Centers for Disease Control-Global AIDS Program; FHI AIDS technical advisory committee; special emphasis panel, Institutional Pathways Towards Strengthening HIV Prevention in Minority Communities, National Institutes of Health; chair, special emphasis panel, international studies on drug abuse and HIV/AIDS, National Institute on Drug Abuse; and the Board of International Health, committees on malaria prevention and control, and data and research priorities for arresting AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, National Academy of Sciences. He was named a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 2006. He is a frequent consultant to HIV/AIDS and child health programs in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Current work focuses on global health disparities in two ways. First through addressing capacity building in the health sector through innovative graduate programs. Programs are designed, or being designed for Brazil, Haiti, Mozambique and Ethiopia, where Dr. Kendall spends much of his time. The second, is through understanding the social, cultural, economic and political factors that contribute to poor health, and helping to address them with innovative interventions.

Contact Information:
1440 Canal Street
Suite 2200
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone: 504.988.2334
Fax: 504.988.3653
E-mail: ckendall@tulane.edu

Level of Instruction:
graduate and undergraduate