My skills are wide-ranging. This may be partly out of necessity as a former social worker and many years of work in the non-profit field. I have a great deal of emotional intelligence and strive to bring meaning and balance to my work and life pursuits. Below is a snapshot of my specific expertise: 1. Expertise areas: Well-being (holistic person/family approaches, education, substance abuse, MH), Global Health, Emergency/COVID/Pandemic Management, Cultural Diversity, migration, food systems/food chains, agriculture-society, labor and human rights, social movements, teaching/training, “Studying Up”, Innovation, Dreamers/ally movements, evidence-based prevention programming (EBIs, HIV/AIDS/STIs), socio-ecological models, critical medical anthropology (CMA), gender, LGBTQ, globalization, Life Course Theory (LCT), adolescents/youth, youth culture, violence, structural violence/inequalities, reproductive health, and holocaust/genocide studies. 2. Geographic: Southern US, Appalachia, Latin America, Nicaragua, Mexico, Caribbean, Spain These are my skills: **Professional skills:** ***Marketing and Social Marketing***: crafting campaigns in English and Spanish across many different topics. ***Teaching*** undergraduate and graduate students, including medical students; creating, designing and development of materials in English-Spanish. ***Research design and measurement***: well-being and quality of life, community based participatory research, social epidemiology, logic model creation, occupational/environmental health, program evaluation, social determinants of health/disparities, assessments (PLS5, Beck Depression, etc.), oral history, ethnography, quantitative, SPSS, NVIVO and Spanish, translation (English-Spanish), curriculum design and development (English-Spanish). ***Administration and Management,*** Emergency/crisis Management, demonstrated Return on Investment ROI $1: $34 savings at FICS, HR/DEI, serving as Principal Investigator, project management, convening stakeholder and community workgroups, conference planning and execution, fundraising). ***Consulting,*** research partner, cultural brokerage, expert witness testimony for asylum and immigration cases.

Alayne Unterberger, PhD

Non-Profit Executive, Applied Researcher and Bilingual Medical Anthropologist

Gulfport, Florida, United States of America

Research Expertise

Marketing

Economics and Econometrics

Anthropology

Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Epidemiology

About

Publications

Network Events: Florida Association for Infant Mental Health 5th Annual Florida Association for Infant Mental Health Conference: "Building Our Future." June 2-3, 2005, Safety Harbor, FL

PsycEXTRA Dataset / Jan 01, 2005

(2005). Network Events: Florida Association for Infant Mental Health 5th Annual Florida Association for Infant Mental Health Conference: “Building Our Future.” June 2-3, 2005, Safety Harbor, FL [dataset]. In PsycEXTRA Dataset. American Psychological Association (APA). https://doi.org/10.1037/e416492005-014

A Social Marketing Approach to Increasing Enrollment in a Public Health Program: A Case Study of the Texas WIC Program

Human Organization / Sep 01, 2001

Bryant, C., Lindenberger, J., Brown, C., Kent, E., Schreiber, J. M., Bustillo, M., & Canright, M. W. (2001). A Social Marketing Approach to Increasing Enrollment in a Public Health Program: A Case Study of the Texas WIC Program. Human Organization, 60(3), 234–246. https://doi.org/10.17730/humo.60.3.9kdw80dx97284yg8

Considering Gender in Transnational Places and Spaces: The Case of the Rural Youth Soccer Association (RYSA)

Practicing Anthropology / Jan 01, 2003

Unterberger, A. (2003). Considering Gender in Transnational Places and Spaces: The Case of the Rural Youth Soccer Association (RYSA). Practicing Anthropology, 25(1), 30–33. https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.25.1.2x743014t351741u

Anthropologists Working with Farmworkers: Experiences from the Fields

Practicing Anthropology / Jan 01, 2003

Unterberger, A. (2003). Anthropologists Working with Farmworkers: Experiences from the Fields. Practicing Anthropology, 25(1), 2–5. https://doi.org/10.17730/praa.25.1.f116h390w788615l

Popular vs. Academic Notions on Globalization and Im/migration

Practicing Anthropology / Dec 01, 2016

Unterberger, A. (2016). Popular vs. Academic Notions on Globalization and Im/migration. Practicing Anthropology, 38(1), 56–57. https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552-38.1.56

Latino Mother/Daughter Dyadic Attachment as a Mediator for Substance Use Disorder and Emotional Abuse

Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health / Nov 27, 2015

Kanamori, M., Weissman, J., De La Rosa, M., Trepka, M. J., Rojas, P., Cano, M. A., Melton, J., & Unterberger, A. (2015). Latino Mother/Daughter Dyadic Attachment as a Mediator for Substance Use Disorder and Emotional Abuse. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, 18(4), 896–903. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-015-0312-z

“No One Cares if You Can't Work”: Injured and Disabled Mexican‐Origin Workers in Transnational Life Course Perspective

Anthropology of Work Review / Nov 19, 2018

Unterberger, A. (2018). “No One Cares if You Can’t Work”: Injured and Disabled Mexican‐Origin Workers in Transnational Life Course Perspective. Anthropology of Work Review, 39(2), 105–115. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/awr.12150

Education

Ph.D., Medical Anthropology / May, 2005

Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Experience

Florida Institute for Community Studies (FICS)

Director / February, 2002 — Present

University of South Florida

Adjunct / August, 2017 — Present

Teach various courses at the USF College of Public Health

USF College of Medicine / April, 1995 — June, 2004

Medical Spanish and Cultural Competence Instructor - 4th Year Medical Student Elective

Florida International University

Associate Research Director/Instructor / May, 2012 — August, 2016

Directed yearly research publications, managed grants portfolio, reports, convened statewide advisory board, taught Labor Studies and Women and Work, supervised staff, interns and special projects

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