Selected Projects
Health Care PrivatizationOne of my current research projects is a volume, co-edited with Peter Rohloff, entitled Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Guatemala.
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Cervical CancerMy doctoral dissertation in Anthropology examined poor women's experiences of cervical cancer screening and treatment in Guatemala.
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Wuqu' KawoqI oversee a number of studies geared towards improving health care programs in rural indigenous communities of Guatemala through the non-governmental organization Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance.
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2017 Flood D, Chary A, Austad K, Garcia P, Rohloff P. A patient navigation system to minimize barriers for peritoneal dialysis in rural, low-resource settings: Case study from Guatemala. Kidney International Reports, in press.
2017 Ippolito MM, Chary A, Daniel M, Barnoya J, Monroe A, Eaken M. Expectations of health care quality among rural Maya villagers in Sololá Department, Guatemala: a qualitative analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16:51.
2017 Flood D, Mathieu I, Chary A, Garcia P, Rohloff P. Perceptions and utilization of generic medicines in Guatemala: A mixed-methods study with physicians and pharmacy staff. BMC Health Services Research, 17:27.
2017 Moore J, Webb MF, Chary A, Kraemer Díaz A, Rohloff P. Aid and gendered subjectivity in rural Guatemala. Journal of Development Studies, 1-15.
2016 Chary A, Flood D, Austad K, Moore J, King N, Martinez B, García P, Lopez W, Dasgupta-Tsikinas S, Rohloff P. Navigating Bureaucracy: Accompanying Indigenous Maya Patients with Complex Healthcare Needs in Guatemala. Human Organization 75(4, Winter): 305-314.
2016 Webb MF, Chary A, de Vries T, Davis S, Dykstra M, Flood D, Rhodes M, Rohloff P. Exploring Mechanisms of Food Insecurity in Indigenous Agricultural Communities in Guatemala: A Mixed Methods Study. BMC Nutrition 2:55.
2016 Austad K, Chary A, Colom A, Barillas R, Luna D, Menjívar C, Metz B, Ruch A, Petrocy A, Rohloff P. Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities. Global Health Science & Practice 4(2):342-345.
2016 Chary A, Sargent C. Blending Western Biomedicine with Local Healing Practices. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 18(7):691-697.
2016 Flood D, Chary A, Austad K, Kraemer Diaz A, Garcia P, Martinez B, Lopez W, Rohloff P. Insights into Global Health Practice from the Agile Software Design Movement. Global Health Action 9:29836 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.29836.
2015 Chary A. Structural Inequalities in the Hospital System: Rural and Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Cervical Cancer Treatment in Guatemala. Revue Sociologie Santé – Santé Reproductive, Special Issue: No. 38, Santé reproductive: routines, normes, invisibilités [Reproductive health: routines, standards, invisibilities] 38(October):161-177.
2014 Wehr H, Chary A, Webb MF, Rohloff P. Implications of gender and household roles in indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala for child nutrition interventions. International Journal of Indigenous Health 10(1):99-112.
2014 Chary A, Rohloff P. Challenges in NGO Implementation of Visual Inspection-Based Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs in Guatemala: A Qualitative Study. Global Health: Science and Practice 2(3):307-17.
2014 Brown K, Henretty N, Chary A, Webb MF, Wehr H, Moore J, Baird C, Kraemer Díaz A, Rohloff P. Formative assessment of and key strategies for improving infant and young child feeding practices in a highly stunted rural indigenous population in Guatemala. Maternal Child Nutrition. [Epub ahead of print]
2013 Chary A, Messmer SE, Sorenson E, Henretty N, Dasgupta SN & Rohloff P. Overcoming the Normalization of Child Illness: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Malnutrition in Rural Guatemala. Human Organization 2:87-97.
2013 Chary A, Kraemer Diaz AE, Henderson B & Rohloff P. The Changing Role of Indigenous Lay Midwives in Guatemala: New Frameworks for Analysis. Midwifery 29:852-858.
2012 Chary A, Greiner M, Bowers C, & Rohloff P. Determining adult type 2 diabetes-related health care needs in an indigenous population from rural Guatemala: a mixed-methods preliminary study. BioMed Central Health Services Research 12:476.
2011 Chary A, Messmer SE & Rohloff P. Male Influence on Infant Feeding in Rural Guatemala and Implications for Child Nutrition Interventions. Breastfeeding Medicine 6(4):227-231.
2008 Cooper LE, McClerren A, Chary A & van der Donk WA. Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of the Two-Component Lantibiotic Haloduracin. Chemistry & Biology, 15(10):1035-1045.
Book Chapters
(*Peer-Reviewed)
*2015 Chary A. Hysterectomies and Healer Shopping: Cervical Cancer and Therapeutic Anarchy in Guatemala. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
*2015 Rohloff P, Chary A. Introduction. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
*2015 King N, Chary A, Rohloff P. Leveraging Resources in Contemporary Maya Midwifery. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
2011 Chary A, Dasgupta SN, Messmer SE & Rohloff P. “But One Gets Tired”: Breastfeeding, Subjugation & Empowerment in Rural Guatemala. In An Anthropology of Mothering. N. McPherson & M. Walks, eds. Pp. 172-182. Toronto: Demeter Press.
Invited Book Reviews
n.d. Chary A. Yates-Doerr, Emily, The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, Oakland, University of California Press, 2015, 248 pp. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. In press.
n.d. Flood D, Chary A. Smith, Jeremy N., Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients. New York, Harper Collins, 2015, 352 pp. Medical Anthropology Theory. In press.
2016 Chary A. Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds. Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015, 269 pp. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Doi:10.1111/maq.12353
2013 Chary A. The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Volume One: Patients, Doctors,
and Illness, Nancy M.P. King, Ronald P. Strauss, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, and Gail E. Henderson, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 294 pp. Anthropology of Consciousness 24(1).
Edited Volumes
2015 Chary A, Rohloff P, eds. Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
2017 Flood D, Chary A, Austad K, Garcia P, Rohloff P. A patient navigation system to minimize barriers for peritoneal dialysis in rural, low-resource settings: Case study from Guatemala. Kidney International Reports, in press.
2017 Ippolito MM, Chary A, Daniel M, Barnoya J, Monroe A, Eaken M. Expectations of health care quality among rural Maya villagers in Sololá Department, Guatemala: a qualitative analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 16:51.
2017 Flood D, Mathieu I, Chary A, Garcia P, Rohloff P. Perceptions and utilization of generic medicines in Guatemala: A mixed-methods study with physicians and pharmacy staff. BMC Health Services Research, 17:27.
2017 Moore J, Webb MF, Chary A, Kraemer Díaz A, Rohloff P. Aid and gendered subjectivity in rural Guatemala. Journal of Development Studies, 1-15.
2016 Chary A, Flood D, Austad K, Moore J, King N, Martinez B, García P, Lopez W, Dasgupta-Tsikinas S, Rohloff P. Navigating Bureaucracy: Accompanying Indigenous Maya Patients with Complex Healthcare Needs in Guatemala. Human Organization 75(4, Winter): 305-314.
2016 Webb MF, Chary A, de Vries T, Davis S, Dykstra M, Flood D, Rhodes M, Rohloff P. Exploring Mechanisms of Food Insecurity in Indigenous Agricultural Communities in Guatemala: A Mixed Methods Study. BMC Nutrition 2:55.
2016 Austad K, Chary A, Colom A, Barillas R, Luna D, Menjívar C, Metz B, Ruch A, Petrocy A, Rohloff P. Fertility Awareness Methods Are Not Modern Contraceptives: Defining Contraception to Reflect Our Priorities. Global Health Science & Practice 4(2):342-345.
2016 Chary A, Sargent C. Blending Western Biomedicine with Local Healing Practices. American Medical Association Journal of Ethics 18(7):691-697.
2016 Flood D, Chary A, Austad K, Kraemer Diaz A, Garcia P, Martinez B, Lopez W, Rohloff P. Insights into Global Health Practice from the Agile Software Design Movement. Global Health Action 9:29836 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.29836.
2015 Chary A. Structural Inequalities in the Hospital System: Rural and Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Cervical Cancer Treatment in Guatemala. Revue Sociologie Santé – Santé Reproductive, Special Issue: No. 38, Santé reproductive: routines, normes, invisibilités [Reproductive health: routines, standards, invisibilities] 38(October):161-177.
2014 Wehr H, Chary A, Webb MF, Rohloff P. Implications of gender and household roles in indigenous Maya communities in Guatemala for child nutrition interventions. International Journal of Indigenous Health 10(1):99-112.
2014 Chary A, Rohloff P. Challenges in NGO Implementation of Visual Inspection-Based Cervical Cancer Prevention Programs in Guatemala: A Qualitative Study. Global Health: Science and Practice 2(3):307-17.
2014 Brown K, Henretty N, Chary A, Webb MF, Wehr H, Moore J, Baird C, Kraemer Díaz A, Rohloff P. Formative assessment of and key strategies for improving infant and young child feeding practices in a highly stunted rural indigenous population in Guatemala. Maternal Child Nutrition. [Epub ahead of print]
2013 Chary A, Messmer SE, Sorenson E, Henretty N, Dasgupta SN & Rohloff P. Overcoming the Normalization of Child Illness: A Mixed-Methods Study of Child Malnutrition in Rural Guatemala. Human Organization 2:87-97.
2013 Chary A, Kraemer Diaz AE, Henderson B & Rohloff P. The Changing Role of Indigenous Lay Midwives in Guatemala: New Frameworks for Analysis. Midwifery 29:852-858.
2012 Chary A, Greiner M, Bowers C, & Rohloff P. Determining adult type 2 diabetes-related health care needs in an indigenous population from rural Guatemala: a mixed-methods preliminary study. BioMed Central Health Services Research 12:476.
2011 Chary A, Messmer SE & Rohloff P. Male Influence on Infant Feeding in Rural Guatemala and Implications for Child Nutrition Interventions. Breastfeeding Medicine 6(4):227-231.
2008 Cooper LE, McClerren A, Chary A & van der Donk WA. Structure-Activity Relationship Studies of the Two-Component Lantibiotic Haloduracin. Chemistry & Biology, 15(10):1035-1045.
Book Chapters
(*Peer-Reviewed)
*2015 Chary A. Hysterectomies and Healer Shopping: Cervical Cancer and Therapeutic Anarchy in Guatemala. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
*2015 Rohloff P, Chary A. Introduction. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
*2015 King N, Chary A, Rohloff P. Leveraging Resources in Contemporary Maya Midwifery. In Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. A. Chary & P. Rohloff, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, Lexington Books.
2011 Chary A, Dasgupta SN, Messmer SE & Rohloff P. “But One Gets Tired”: Breastfeeding, Subjugation & Empowerment in Rural Guatemala. In An Anthropology of Mothering. N. McPherson & M. Walks, eds. Pp. 172-182. Toronto: Demeter Press.
Invited Book Reviews
n.d. Chary A. Yates-Doerr, Emily, The Weight of Obesity: Hunger and Global Health in Postwar Guatemala, Oakland, University of California Press, 2015, 248 pp. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. In press.
n.d. Flood D, Chary A. Smith, Jeremy N., Epic Measures: One Doctor. Seven Billion Patients. New York, Harper Collins, 2015, 352 pp. Medical Anthropology Theory. In press.
2016 Chary A. Anthropologies of Cancer in Transnational Worlds. Holly F. Mathews, Nancy J. Burke, and Eirini Kampriani, eds. New York: Routledge, 2015, 269 pp. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Doi:10.1111/maq.12353
2013 Chary A. The Social Medicine Reader, Second Edition: Volume One: Patients, Doctors,
and Illness, Nancy M.P. King, Ronald P. Strauss, Larry R. Churchill, Sue E. Estroff, and Gail E. Henderson, eds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. 294 pp. Anthropology of Consciousness 24(1).
Edited Volumes
2015 Chary A, Rohloff P, eds. Privatization and the New Medical Pluralism: Shifting Healthcare Landscapes in Maya Guatemala. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.