COVID in Iowa, USA
Mendenhall, Emily. “Trust, Individualism, and the Logics of Care in Middle America during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Transcultural Psychiatry, online December 6, doi: 10.1177/13634615231213839.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2022. Unmasked: COVID, Community, and the Case of Okoboji. Vanderbilt: Nashville.
Hariharan, Syona, Maydha Dhanuka, Natalie Kim, Arthur Rodriguez, Roopjote Atwal, Adam D. Koon, Emily Mendenhall. 2022. “Understanding the “Sometimes Masker”: Political orientation and trust in the media during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Community Health, epub July 5.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2021. “How an Iowa Summer Resort Region Became a COVID-19 Hotspot.” Practicing Anthropology, 44(1):16-22.
Kenworthy, Nora, Koon, Adam D, Mendenhall Emily. 2021. On symbols and scripts: The politics of the American COVID-19 response. Glob Public Health. 19:1-15.
Koon, Adam, Emily Mendenhall, Lori Eich, Abby Adams, Zachary Borus. 2021. “A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Tourist Town in the United States.” Social Science and Medicine, Feb 10.
COVID in Eldoret, Kenya
Bosire, Edna, Allie Cho, Lucy Wambui Kamau, Violet Bosire, Emily Mendenhall. “Views on COVID-19 Vaccination among residents of Eldoret, Kenya during the 2021 Vaccine Rollout.” Global Public Health, 18(1):2278877.
Bosire, Edna N., Lucy Wambui, Violet K. Bosire, Emily Mendenhall. 2022. “Social Risk and the Local Politics of COVID-19 prevention in Eldoret town, Kenya.” Global Public Health (3):325-340.
Research in Soweto, South Africa
Schmidt-Sane, Megan, Lindile Cele, Edna Bosire, Alexander Tsai, Emily Mendenhall. “Flourishing with chronic illness(es) and everyday stress: experiences from Soweto, South Africa.” Wellbeing, Space, and Society, 4: 100144.
Mpondo, Feziwe, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Alexander C. Tsai, Emily Mendenhall. 2022. “Development and Validation of the Soweto Coping Scale: A Mixed-Methods, Population-Based Study of Adults Living in Soweto, South Africa.” Journal of Affective Disorders, 303:353-358.
Mendenhall, Emily, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Anthony Panasci, Lindile Cele, Feziwe Mpondo, Edna N. Bosire, Shane A. Norris, Alexander C. Tsai. 2021. “A mixed-methods, population-based study of syndemic interactions in Soweto, South Africa.” Nature Human Behavior, epub Dec 23.
Backe, Emma, Edna Bosire, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. ““Drinking Too Much, Fighting Too Much”: The “Disasters” of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Alcohol Use in South Africa.” Violence Against Women, 1-22, epub Nov 12.
Cele, Lindile, Sarah S. Willen, Maydha Dhanuka, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. “Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa.” SSM—Mental Health, 1: 100022.
Mpondo, Feziwe, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Alexander C. Tsai, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. “Development and Validation of the Soweto Stress Scale: Mixed-Methods, Population-Based Study of Adults Living in Soweto, South Africa.” Social Science and Medicine, 281:114023.
Kim, Andrew Wooyoung, Raquel Burgess, Nicola Chiwandire, Zwannda Kwinda, Shane Norris, Alexander Tsai, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. “Perceptions, risk, and understandings of the COVID-19 pandemic in urban South Africa.” South African Journal of Psychiatry, 27(1580).
Bosire, Edna, Lindile Cele, Xola Potelwa, Alison Cho, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. “God, Herbs, and Church Water: Perspectives on health and healing in Soweto, South Africa.” Global Public Health, 1-14 (online ahead of print).
Backe, Emma, Edna N. Bosire, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Emily Mendenhall. 2021. “Thinking Too Much”: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in sub-Saharan Africa.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, online January 2.
Kim, Andrew Wooyoung, Tawanda Nyengerai, Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “Evaluating the Mental Health Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceived Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Childhood Trauma Predict Adult Depressive Symptoms in Urban South Africa.” Psychological Medicine, epub Sept 8; 1-24.
Lambert, Madeleine, Emily Mendenhall, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Shane Norris. 2020. “Health System Experiences of Breast Cancer Survivors in urban South Africa.” Women’s Health, 16: 1745506520949419
Bosire, Edna, Jane Goudge, Shane Norris, and Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “Patient-Centred Care for Patients with Diabetes and HIV at A Public Tertiary Hospital in South Africa: An ethnographic study.” International Journal of Health Policy and Management, May 6. doi: 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.65
Mendenhall, Emily, Edna Bosire, Andrew Wooyoung Kim, Shane Norris. 2019. “Cancer, chemotherapy, and HIV: Living with Cancer amidst Comorbidity in a South African Township.” Social Science and Medicine, 237:112461.
Kim, Andrew Wooyoung, Bonnie Kaiser, *Edna Bosire, Katelyn Shahbazian, and Emily Mendenhall. 2019. “Idioms of Resilience among Cancer Patients in Urban South Africa: An Anthropological Heuristic for the Study of Culture and Resilience.” Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(4):720-747.
Bosire, Edna, Emily Mendenhall, Lesley Jo Weaver. 2020. “Comorbid Suffering: Breast Cancer Survivors in South Africa.” Qualitative Health Research, epub March 24.
Mendenhall, Emily, Andrew Wooyoung Kim. 2019. “How to Fail a Scale: Reflections on a Failed Attempt to Assess Resilience.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 43(2):315-325.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2015. “Syndemic Suffering in Soweto: Violence and Inequality at the Nexus of Health Transition in South Africa.” Annals of Anthropological Practice 38(2): 302-318.
Mendenhall, Emily, and Shane A. Norris. 2015. “Diabetes care among urban women in Soweto, South Africa: a qualitative study.” BMC Public Health, 15: 1300. (7 pages)
Mendenhall, Emily, and Shane A. Norris. 2015. “When HIV is Ordinary, Diabetes New: Remaking Suffering in a South African Township.” Global Public Health, 10(4): 449-62
Ibanez-Gonzalez, Daniel, Emily Mendenhall, and Shane A. Norris. 2014. “A mixed methods exploration of patterns of healthcare utilization of urban women with non-communicable disease in South Africa.” BMC Health Services Research, 14:528.
Mendenhall, Emily, Linda Richter, Alan Stein, Shane Norris. 2013. “Psychological and Physical Co-Morbidity among Urban South African Women.” PLOS One 8(10): e78803.
Research in the Somali Region of Ethiopia
Carruth, Lauren, Mohammad Jama Ateye, Ahmed Nassir, Farah Mussa Hosh, and Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “Diabetes in a humanitarian crisis: Atypical clinical presentations and challenges to clinical- and community-based management among Somalis in Ethiopia.” Global Public Health, epub 29 Jan.
Carruth, Lauren, and Emily Mendenhall. “Wasting away”: diabetes, food insecurity, and medical insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.” Social Science and Medicine, 20;228:155-163.
Carruth, Lauren, and Emily Mendenhall. 2018. “Social Etiologies of Type 2 Diabetes: Crisis and Displacement.” BMJ 361:k1795.
Research in Nairobi, Kenya
Mendenhall, Emily, Abednego Musau, *Edna Bosire, Victoria Mutiso, Melanie Rock, and David Ndetei. 2019. “What drives distress? Rethinking the role of emotion in distress among people with diabetes in Nairobi, Kenya.” Anthropology and Medicine, Dec 6
Mendenhall, Emily, Rebecca Rinehart, Christine Musyimi, Edna Bosire, Victoria Mutiso, and David Ndetei. 2019. “An Ethnopsychology of Idioms of Distress in Urban Kenya.” Transcultural Psychiatry, 56(4) 620–642.
Bosire, Edna, Emily Mendenhall, Gregory Omondi, David Ndetei. 2018. “When Diabetes Confronts HIV: Biological Sub-Citizenship at a Public Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 32(4):574-592.
Mendenhall, Emily, Gitonga Isaiah, Bernadette Nelson, Abednego Musau, Adam D. Koon, Lahra Smith, Victoria Mutiso, David Ndetei. 2018. “Nurses’ Perceptions of mental healthcare in primary-care settings in Kenya.” Global Public Health, 13(4):442-455.
Koon, Adam, Lahra Smith, Victoria Mutiso, David Ndetei, and Emily Mendenhall. 2017. “Nurses’ perceptions of universal health coverage and its implications for the Kenyan health sector.” Critical Public Health, 27 (1), 28-38
Mendenhall, Emily, Gregory Omondi, Edna Bosire, Gitonga Isaiah, Abednego Musau, David Ndetei, Victoria Mutiso. 2015. “Stress, Diabetes, and Infection: Syndemic Suffering at an Urban Kenyan Hospital.” Social Science and Medicine, 146: 11-20.
Research in Delhi, India
McMurry, H. Stowe, Roopa Shivashankar, Emily Mendenhall, and Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2017.“Today’s risk factors, tomorrow’s disease; overweight and obesity insights from India’s fourth National Family Health Survey.” Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), 52(49): Dec 9.
Mendenhall, Emily, H. Stowe McMurry, Roopa Shivashankar, K.M. Venkat Narayan, Nikhil Tandon, Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2016. “Normalizing Diabetes in Delhi: A Qualitative Study of Health and Healthcare.” Anthropology and Medicine, 23(3):295-310.
Mendenhall, Emily, Roopa Shivashankar, Nikhil Tandon, Mohammad K. Ali, K. M. Venkat Narayan, Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2012. “Stress and Diabetes in Socioeconomic Context: A Qualitative Study of Urban Indians.” Social Science and Medicine 75: 2522-2529.
Mendenhall, Emily, Gitanjali Narayanan and Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2012. “Depression and Diabetes in India: Perspectives and Recommendations.” Diabetic Medicine 29(9):e308-11.
Research in Chicago, USA
Mendenhall, Emily. 2012. Syndemic Suffering: Social Distress, Depression, and Diabetes among Mexican Immigrant Women. Routledge: New York.
Kimmel, Jacqueline, Emily Mendenhall, Elizabeth Jacobs. 2020. “Deconstructing PTSD: Trauma and PTSD Among Mexican Immigrant Women in Chicago.” Transcultural Psychiatry, 1363461520903120, epub Feb 11.
Lara Muñoz, María del Carmen, Elizabeth A. Jacobs, Marco Antonio Escamilla, and Emily Mendenhall. 2014. “Do women with diabetes experience depression equally in urban centers in Mexico and the United States? A comparative study.” Revista Panamericana de Salud Pública/Pan American Journal of Public Health, 36(4):225-231.
Seligman, Rebecca, Emily Mendenhall, Maria Valvidonos, Alicia Fernandez, Elizabeth A. Jacobs. 2014. “Self-care and subjectivity among Mexican diabetes patients in the United States.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 29(1): 61-79.
Mendenhall, Emily, and Elizabeth A. Jacobs. 2012. “Interpersonal Abuse and Depression among Mexican Immigrant Women with Type 2 Diabetes.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(1): 136-153.
Mendenhall, Emily, Alicia Fernandez, Nancy Adler, and Elizabeth A. Jacobs. 2012.“Susto, Coraje, and Abuse: Depression and Beliefs about Diabetes.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 36(3): 480-492.
Lynch, Elizabeth, Alicia Fernandez, Nicole Lighthouse, Emily Mendenhall, and Elizabeth Jacobs. 2012. “Concepts of diabetes self-management in Mexican American and African American low-income patients with diabetes.” Health Education Research 27(5): 814-24.
Jacobs, Elizabeth A., Emily Mendenhall, Ann S. McAlearney, Italia Rolle, Eric Whitaker, Richard Warnecke, Carol E. Ferrans. 2011. “An exploratory study of how trust in health care institutions varies across African American, Hispanic and white populations.” Communication and Medicine, 8(1):89-98.
Wagner, Julie, Chandra Osborn, Emily Mendenhall, Lisa Budris, Sophia Belay, Howard Tennen. 2011. “Beliefs about Racism and Health among African American Women with Diabetes: A Qualitative Study.” Journal of the National Medical Association, 103(3): 224–232.
Mendenhall, Emily, Rebecca Seligman, Alicia Fernandez, Elizabeth A. Jacobs. 2010. “Speaking through diabetes: Rethinking the significance of lay discourses on diabetes.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 24(2): 220-239.
Research on Health Systems
Closser, Svea, Emily Mendenhall, Peter Brown, Rachel Neill, Judith Justice. 2021. “The Anthropology of Health Systems: A History and Review.” Social Science and Medicine, 13:114314
*League, Avery, Katharine M. Donato, Nima Sheth, Elizabeth Selden, Sheetal Patel, Laurie Ball Cooper, Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “A Systematic Review of Medical-Legal Partnerships Serving Immigrant Communities in the United States.” Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health, epub Sep 25:1-12.
Wenham, Clare, Rebecca Katz, Charles Birungi, Lisa Boden, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lawrence O. Gostin, Renzo Guinto, Mark Hellowell, Kristine Husoy Onarheim, Joshua Hutton, Anuj Kapilashrami, Emily Mendenhall, Alexandra Phelan, Marlee Tichenor, Devi Sridhar. 2019. “Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage: From a Marriage of Convenience to a Strategic, Effective Partnership.” BMJ Global Health, 4(1): e001145.
Mendenhall, Emily, Mary J. De Silva, Charlotte Hanlon, Inge Petersen, Rahul Shidhaye, Mark Jordans, Nagendra Luitel, Joshua Ssebunnya, Abebaw Fekadu, Vikram Patel, Mark Tomlinson, Crick Lund. 2014. “Acceptability and feasibility of using non-specialist health workers to deliver mental health care: stakeholder perceptions from the PRIME district sites in Ethiopia, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda.” Social Science and Medicine 118: 33-42.
Theory, Comments & Reviews
Lang, Jake, Emily Mendenhall, Adam Koon. “Disentangling Opioids-Related Overdose Syndemics: A Scoping Review.” International Journal of Drug Policy. 119:104152.
Gizamba, Jacob Mugoya, John Wilson, Emily Mendenhall, Laura Ferguson. “A review of place-related contextual factors in syndemics research.” Health and Place, 83:103084.
Mendenhall, Emily, Brandon Kohrt, Carmen Logie, Alexander Tsai. 2022. “Syndemics and Clinical Science.” Nature Medicine, epub July 21.
Logie, Carmen, Madelaine Coelho, Brandon Kohrt, Alexander Tsai, Emily Mendenhall. 2022. “Context, COVID-19 and comorbidities: exploring emergent directions in syndemics and HIV research.” Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 17(2):46-54.
Mendenhall, Emily, Timothy Newfield, Alexander Tsai. 2022. “Syndemic Theory, Methods, and Data.” Social Science and Medicine, 295:114656.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2020. “The COVID-19 Syndemic is not global: Context Matters. The Lancet, 396
Mendenhall, Emily. 2020. “Metabolic Reflections: Blurring the Lines Between Trauma and Diabetes.” American Anthropologist, 122 (3), 664-665.
Saxena, Akshar, Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “Syndemic Thinking in Large-Scale Studies: Case Studies of Disability, Hypertension, and Diabetes across income groups in India and China.” Social Science and Medicine, Nov 5:113503. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113503.
Mendenhall, Emily, Merrill Singer. 2020. “What constitutes a syndemic?: Methods, Contexts, and Framing.” Current Opinion on HIV/AIDS. 5(4): 213-217.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2019. Rethinking Diabetes: Entanglements with Trauma, Poverty, and HIV. Cornell University Press: Ithaca.
Carlson, Colin, and Emily Mendenhall. 2019. “Preparing for emerging infections means expecting new syndemics.” The Lancet, 394 (10195): 297.
Mendenhall, Emily, and Merrill Singer. 2019. Correspondence, “The global syndemic of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.” The Lancet, 393(10173):741.
McMurry, H. Stowe, Emily Mendenhall, Aravind LR, Lavanya Nambiar, Srinath Satyanarayana, Roopa Shivashankar. 2019. “Co-prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus and tuberculosis in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.” Diabetes/Metabolism Research and Reviews, 35(1):e3066
Carruth, Lauren, Sarah Chard, Heather Howard, Lenore Manderson, Emily Mendenhall, Emily Vasquez, Emily Yates-Doerr. 2019. “Disaggregating Diabetes: New Subtypes, Causes, and Care.” Medical Anthropology Theory, epub 16 Dec.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2017. “Syndemics: A New Path for Global Health Research.” The Lancet, 389: 391.
Mendenhall, Emily, Brandon Kohrt, Shane Norris, David Ndetei, and Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2017. “Non-communicable Disease Syndemics: Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes among the Urban Poor.” The Lancet, 389: 952-963.
Tsai, Alexander, Emily Mendenhall, James Trostle, and Ichiro Kawachi. 2017. “Co-occurring epidemics, syndemics, and population health.” The Lancet, 389: 978–82.
Singer, Merrill, Bayla Ostrach, and Nicola Bulled, and Emily Mendenhall. 2017. “Syndemics and a Biosocial Conception of Health.” The Lancet, 389: 941–50.
Kohrt, Brandon A., Emily Mendenhall, and Peter J. Brown. 2016.“How Anthropological Theory and Methods Can Advance Global Mental Health.” Lancet Psychiatry, 3(May):396-397.
Mendenhall, Emily, Kristin Yarris and Brandon Kohrt. 2016.“Utilization of standardized mental health assessments in anthropological research: possibilities and pitfalls.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 40(4):726-745.
Mendenhall, Emily. 2016.“Beyond Co-Morbidity: A Critical Anthropological Perspective of Depression and Diabetes in Cross-Cultural Contexts.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 30(4):462-478.
Kohrt, Brandon, and Emily Mendenhall. 2015. Global Mental Health: Anthropological Perspectives. Routledge: New York.
Mendenhall, Emily, and Lesley Jo Weaver. 2014. “Reorienting Women’s Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: The case of depression and type 2 diabetes.” Global Health Action 7: 22803 (5 pages).
Weaver, Lesley Jo, and Emily Mendenhall. 2014. “Applying Syndemics and Chronicity: Interpretations from Studies of Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes.” Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness 33(2): 1-17.
Mendenhall, Emily, Shane A. Norris, Rahul Shidhaye, Dorairaj Prabhakaran. 2014. “Depression and Type 2 Diabetes in Low and Middle Income Countries: A Systematic Review.” Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice 103: 276–285.
Shidhaye, Rahul, Emily Mendenhall, Kathakie Sumathipala, Athula Sumathipala, Vikram Patel 2013. “Association of Somatoform Disorders with Anxiety and Depression in Women in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Systematic Review.” International Review of Psychiatry 25(1): 65–76.
Research in Lusaka, Zambia
Stephenson, Rob, Emily Mendenhall, L Muzizi, Bellington Vwalika, Elwyn Chomba, Yusuf Ahmed, L Clark, D Roth, J Telfair, A Haworth, Susan Allen. 2008. “The Influence of Motivational Messages on Future Planning Behaviors Among HIV Concordant Positive and Discordant Couples in Lusaka, Zambia.” AIDS Care 20(2): 150-160.
Mendenhall, Emily, L Muzizi, Rob Stephenson, Elwyn Chomba, Allen Haworth, Susan Allen. 2007.“Property Grabbing and Will Writing in Lusaka, Zambia: An Examination of Wills of HIV Infected Cohabiting Couples.” AIDS Care 19(3): 369-74.