Doug Henry

I am interested in applied medical anthropology, as the interaction of culture, health, society, and illness. I've done research in areas such as sleep and the treatment-seeking behaviors surrounding sleep disorders, violence, refugees, and international relief during conflict and disaster, program evaluation through "cost-benefit analyses," structural violence and the public health of young gay and bisexual men, paramedics and paramedical decision-making, childhood asthma, and college-age vaping. I currently teach the undergraduate courses Introduction to Anthropology, Peoples and Cultures of Africa, International Development, Anthropology and Public Health, and the graduate courses Medical Anthropology, Public Health, and Quantitative Methods and Analyses.

Education

2000, Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

1996, M.A., Medical Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

1991, B.A., Writing and Literature, University of Virginia

 

For current Projects, link to Vitae and the UNT Faculty Profile

 

Selected Consulting Projects

2020, 2024 Denton County Health Department, hemp-derived cannabinoids

2019, UNT Dean of Students Office, Students and Sleep

2018, Children's Hospital of Dallas, Childhood Asthma

2016, Denton Hunger Coalition, Evaluation of the Mobile Food Pantry

2015, Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Public Policy Research Institute (PPRI), Dallas, TX