CURRICULUM VITAE
Ann V. Millard
Ann Millard is a faculty member in the Department of Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences, School of Rural Public Health, Health Science Center, Texas A&M University System. She works at the McAllen Campus, a research and graduate education site in the Mexican border region. Since coming to the center in 2002, she has won 27 grants for research, applied service delivery, evaluation, and pilot projects. She has regularly taught 3 classes at the McAllen Campus for the School of Rural Public Health and has won numerous grants for work on maternal and child health, diabetes, and obesity prevention over the life cycle.
Millard received her Ph.D. in anthropology in 1980 from the University of Texas at Austin. She was a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology and the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University from 1980 to 2002. She taught anthropology and cultural aspects of medicine, directed the Office on Women in International Development, and edited Medical Anthropology Quarterly, an international journal published by the American Anthropological Association. She also served as a Senior Research Scholar at the Julian Samora Research Institute, leading to her most recent book, Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest. The award-winning book is a multiauthored, multidisciplinary publication on new immigrants from Mexico to the rural Midwest in the 1990s, their reasons for arriving, and how they were received by townspeople (funded by a USDA grant to Michigan State University).
Millard's research interests include cultural aspects of health, community engagement, reproductive health, and population-level prevention of chronic disease. She has specialized in social determinants of health and health disparities in Mexico and the United States. Her methodological approach includes ethnography, quantitative techniques, and participatory, community-based approaches. She has received funding for 48 research and service projects and fellowships. Her current projects deal with border health, early diabetes prevention, reproductive health, and breastfeeding. Millard's publications include two books, 16 refereed articles, 5 book chapters, and 107 other publications. She has carried out ethnographic research and advised on anthropological projects on health and household economics in a number of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia.
During 33 years of university teaching, Millard has regularly taught 3 public health graduate classes, 10 graduate anthropology courses, 12 undergraduate anthropology courses, and as co- instructor, 11 medical school courses. She organized internships in the U.S. and Africa for undergraduate and graduate students, and served on graduate students’ committees at two universities in the United States and at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City. She has supported, supervised, and published with a number of undergraduate and graduate students, including African American, Mexican American, and international students. Of graduate students whose committees she chaired, 10 have gone on to university faculty positions in anthropology, gender studies, and medicine; 7 are in the United States, 3 in the Philippines, Canada, and South Africa, and others work in applied health research, including the Centers for Disease Control and 2
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Ann V. Millard
Associate Professor March 2016 Dept. of Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences McAllen Campus School of Rural Public Health Texas A&M University System Health Science Center
2101 South McColl Rd. phone, (956) 668-6320; fax, -6302; cell, 648-0541 McAllen, Texas 78503-1489 [email protected]
EDUCATION Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, 1980 B.A., Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, 1968
Additional training Public Health Training Workshops: (a) Practical Evaluation of Public Health Programs (2006); (b) Grant & Proposal Writing (2007); (c) Assessment of an Intervention (2007), Regional Practice Institute, Meeting the Public Health Challenge: Strategies to Protect and Improve the Health of Communities. Texas Public Health Training Center. B. Reininger & T. Byrd, Hidalgo County Health Department, Edinburg, Texas, 2007.
Biostatistics, Xiaohui Wang, Dept. of Math, University of Texas-Pan American, 2005.
American Public Health Association Continuing Education Institutes (Nov. 6-7, 2004): (a) A Grassroots Funding Model that Creates a Community Health Foundation within a Public Health Agency, American Public Health Association Continuing Education Institute, CEI 2013.0; (b) Community-Based Participatory Research: Working with Communities to Analyze Data and Get to Outcomes, American Public Health Association Continuing Education Institute, CEI 2013.0; (c) Epi for Non-Epidemiologists, American Public Health Association Continuing Education Institute, CEI 1007.0.
Training for Transformation, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C., Phases I-II. 1988-89.
International Nutrition Workshop, International Commission on Anthropology & Food directed by Nevin Scrimshaw, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2002-present Associate Professor, Dept. of Health Promotion & Community Health Sciences & McAllen Campus, School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center. 1998-present Senior Research Scholar, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University. 2011-2012 Courtesy Appointment to the Faculty of the College of Medicine, Florida State 4
University. 1986-2002 Associate Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Michigan State University. 1989-1990 Acting Director, Office of Women and International Development, Michigan State University. Director, Women in International Development-U.S. Agency for International Development Project (granted to Women in Development-Midwest Universities Consortium; Rita Gallin, Principal Investigator) ($.5 M). 1980-1986 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology and College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University.
PUBLICATIONS
Books Millard, A. V., Chapa, J., Burillo, C., Crane, K. R., Flores, I., Hogan, J., Jefferds, M. D., McConnell, E. D., Rochín, R. & Saenz, R. (2004). Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Howard, M. & Millard, A.V. (1997). Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mt. Kilimanjaro. New York: Routledge.
Forthcoming Millard, A. V. & Graham, M. A. Reproduction/Maternal & Child Health/Anthropology.
Refereed Articles (numbered articles have been published) 1. Millard, A. V. and Ladia, M. A. J. 2015. TB Meets IE: Contributions of Ethnography. Journal of Development Effectiveness 7(2): 175–191, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19439342.2015.1043795 2. Cantu, A., Graham, M. A., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Mugleston, M. K., Reyes, I. Y., & Carbajal, E. S. 2015 (published online 18 Mar 2015) Environmental Justice and Community- based Research in Texas Borderland Colonias. Public Health Nursing 33(1); 65-72, doi: 10.1111/phn.12187. 3. Ladia, M. A. J. and Millard, A. V. 2016. Tuberculosis: Changing Concepts of Globalization and Boundaries in the Context of Health. Philippine Journal of Health Research & Development 20(1): 8. Ladia, M. A. J. and Millard, A. V. Under revision. TB Stigma and Spaces of Isolation. Acta Medica Philippina. 4. Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Wang, X., Mier, N., Sanchez, E. R., & Flores, I. (2011). Pilot of the Diabetes Education Empowerment Program in a high-obesity, low-income Hispanic community on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 15(5):906-913. PMID: 21061063. 5. Mier, N., Tanguma, J., Millard, A. V., Villarreal, E.K., Alen, M. & Ory, M. G. (2011). A walking pilot program for Mexican American women living in colonias at the border. American Journal of Health Promotion 25(3):172-175. doi: 10.4278/ajhp.090325-ARB-115. PMID: 21192746. 6. Mier, N., Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Williamson, M., Gabriel, O. & Flores, S. (2008). Emergency department use among Hispanic children plummets with health insurance. The EpiLink 65(1):1-4. 7. Mier, N., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Sánchez, E. R., Medina, B., & Carbajal, E.S. (2007). 5
Community-based participatory research: Lessons learned from practice in South Texas colonias. Texas Public Health Association Journal 59(1):16-18. 8. Roeder, V. & Millard, A. V. (2005). Latina Women in the migrant stream: A case study of Michigan farm workers. Journal of Latino-Latin American Studies (JOLLAS) 1(4). 9. Kingfisher, C. P. & Millard, A. V. (1998). “Milk makes me sick but my body needs it": conflict and contradiction in the establishment of authoritative knowledge. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12, 447-466. PMID: 9884993. 10. Millard, A. V. (1994). A causal model of high rates of child mortality. Social Science and Medicine 38(2), 253-268. PMID: 8140452. 11. Ferguson, A. E., Millard, A. V., & Khaila, S. (1990). Crop improvement programmes and nutrition in Malawi: exploring the links. Food and Nutrition Bulletin 12(4), 273-278. 12. Millard, A. V. (1990). The place of the clock in pediatric advice: rationales, cultural themes, and impediments to breastfeeding. Social Science and Medicine 31(2), 211-221. PMID: 2202052. 13. Millard, A. V. & Graham, M. A. (1985). Abrupt weaning reconsidered: evidence from Central Mexico. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 31(4), 229-234. PMID: 4046104. 14. Millard, A. V. (1985). Child mortality and economic variation among rural Mexican households. Social Science and Medicine 20(6), 589-599. PMID: 4001982. 15. Millard, A. V., & Graham, M. A. (1985). Principles that guide weaning in rural Mexico. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 16, 171-188. 16. Berlin, E. A., & Millard, A.V. (1983). ABO blood groups and sex ratios in South American Indians. Evolutionary Theory 6(5), 257-273. 17. Millard, A. V., & Berlin, E. A. (1983). Sex ratio and natural selection at the human ABO locus. Human Heredity 33, 130-136. PMID: 6862456. 18. Millard, A. V. (1982). Child mortality and lactation contraception in Mexico. MedicalAnthropology 6(3), 147-164.
Book Chapters
1. Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Mier, N., Flores, I., Carrillo-Zuniga, G., & Sánchez, E. R. (2009) Addressing health disparities: the Hispanic perspective. In S. Kosoko-Lasaki, C.T. Cook & R.L. O'Brien [Eds.]. Cultural Proficiency in Addressing Health Disparities (pp. 183- 224). Boston: Jones & Bartlett Publishers.
2. Millard, A. V., Ojeda, N. M., & Medina, L. K. (2007). Estrategias de la familia y el grupo domestico en la migración agrícola internacional. In David L. Robichaux [Ed.], Familias Mexicanas en Transición: Unas Miradas Antropológicas (pp. 307-319). México, D.F.: Universidad Iberoamericana.
3. Millard, A. V., Ferguson, A. E., & Khaila, S. (1990). Agricultural development and malnutrition: a causal model of child mortality. In J. Caldwell, S. Findley, P. Caldwell, G. Santow, W. Cosford, J. Braid & D. Broers-Freeman [Eds.], What We Know about Health Transition (pp. 285-310). Canberra: Australia National University.
4. Millard, A. V. & Hubbard-Garcia, P. E. (1989). Demography. In K. L. Stoner [Ed.], Latinas of the Americas (pp. 61-108). New York: Garland. 6
5. Millard, A. V. & Graham, M. A. (1985). Breastfeeding in two Mexican villages: social and demographic perspectives. In V. Hull and M. Simpson [Eds.], Breastfeeding, Child Health and Child Spacing (pp. 55-77). London: Croom-Helm.
Other Refereed, Published Papers 1. Mier, N., Millard, A.V., & Flores, I. (2005). United States/Mexico border binational health week. Sponsors: South Texas Center School of Rural Public Health, Texas A&M University, The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Council, U.S./Mexico Border Health Association, Health Resources and Services Administration. Health Education and Behavior 32, 2, 148-149.
2. Chapa, J. & Millard, A. V. (2003). Latinos and race formation—the conflation of legal status, race, and national origin at the new frontiers of Latino immigration. Published electronically. Proceedings of the Harvard Colorlines Conference, Harvard Civil Rights Project. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University School of Law.
3. Millard, A. V. & McBride, K. A. (1987). Comment on E.A. Hammel and Nancy Howell, Research in Population and Culture: an Evolutionary Framework. Current Anthropology 28(2):153.
4. Millard, A. V. (1985). Family Planning Programs in Agrarian Societies: Lactation Contraception and its Policy Implications. CASID Occasional Paper No. 6. East Lansing, MI: Center for Advanced Study of International Development, Michigan State University.
5. Millard, A. V. & Graham, M. A. (1984). Weaning Decisions by Rural Mexican Women. Working Papers on Women in International Development No. 73. East Lansing, MI: Center for International Programs, Michigan State University.
6. Millard, A. V. & Graham, M. A. (1984). Breastfeeding and Demography in Two Mexican Villages. Working Papers on Women in International Development No. 48. East Lansing, MI: Center for International Programs, Michigan State University.
7. Millard, A. V. (1982). Women's Reproductive Histories and Demographic Change: a Case Study from Rural Mexico. Working Papers on Women in International Development No. 8. East Lansing, MI: Center for International Programs, Michigan State University.
Refereed, Published Abstracts 1. Murtuza, M.M., Moralez, J., Moya, B., Peña, J., Millard, A.V., Wickwire, B., McNeely, A.M., Flores, I., May, M. (2015, June). A Pilot Study to Provide HbA1c Testing and Diabetes Education to an Underserved Population in Hidalgo County, Texas. Diabetes 64: A195.
2. Murtuza, M.M., Moralez, J., Moya, B., Peña, J., Millard, A.V., Wickwire, B., Carbajal, E.S., Flores, I., May, M., Herrera, A. POD²ER: Prevention and Organization against Diabetes and Dialysis with Education and Resources. Poster presented at the meeting of the American 7
Diabetes Association, 75th Scientific Sessions, Boston, MA.
3. Millard, A.V. and Ladia, M.A.J. (2014) The Achilles Heel of TB Prevention after a Century of International Medical Programs. Presented in “Anthropologists Read Impact Evaluations,” Proceedings of the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) conference, Making Impact Evaluation Matter, Manila, the Philippines, September 3-5.
4. Millard, A.V., Flores, I., Graham, M.A., Longoria, N.L., Cardona, D. and Lopez, A. (2013) Obesity Prevention across the Life Span: Policy Initiatives. U.S.-Mexico Border Obesity Prevention Summit, McAllen, Texas, July 16-18.
5. Flores, I. and Millard, A.V. (2013) Obesity Prevention through School Parks: A Public Policy Initiative. U.S.-Mexico Border Obesity Prevention Summit, McAllen, Texas, July 16- 18.
6. Millard, A.V. (2013) Meeting with Adults to Prevent Obesity in Communities with Limited Resources. U.S.-Mexico Border Obesity Prevention Summit, McAllen, Texas, July 16-18.
7. Morin, T., Graham, M. and Millard, A. (2013) Breastfeeding on the Border: Views of WIC Peer Counselors. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Denver, CO, March 20-24.
8. Chapa, J. and Millard, A.V. (2012) Demographic Composition Obscures Significance of Obesity, Diabetes, etc., in the County Health Rankings of South Texas. 2012 Summit on the Science of Eliminating Health Disparities: Building a Healthier Society, Integrating Science, Policy, and Practice. National Harbor, Maryland, December 17-19.
9. Millard, A.V. and Graham, M.A. (2012) Health and Cultural Dynamism at the Texas-Mexico Border: Early Effects of Globalization. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, November 14-18.
10. Millard, A.V. and Graham, M.A. (2012) Living with Type 2 Diabetes on the Texas-Mexico Border. 6th Annual Research Conference, University of Texas-Pan American College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Edinburg, Texas, April 12-13.
11. Millard, A.V. and Graham, M.A. (2012) Health, Cultural Confluence and Conflict at the Texas-Mexico Border. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Baltimore, March 27-31.
12. Millard, A.V., van Cleef, T., Mier, N., Flores, I., & Lopez, A. (2011) Healthy Edinburg Schools: A Rural Childhood Obesity Intervention on the Texas-Mexico Border. Poster presentation. Annual Conference of the Texas Rural Health Forum. San Antonio, Texas, September 13-14.
13. Graham, M. A. and Millard, AV. (2011) Feeding Babies on the Border: Views of Mexican- American Mothers: Health, Cultural Confluence and Conflict at the Texas-Mexico Border. Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Seattle, WA, March 29-April 2. 8
14. Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Flores, I., Rodriguez, M., Morín, T., Wang, X., Carbajal, E., Carbajal, C., & Palacios, M. (2010) Breastfeeding & Health in the LRGV: A Pilot Study. Food as Medicine/Comida Como Su Medicina Conference, organized by Daniel E. Hale and Ivette C. Torres, U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Education and Research Center, Regional Academic Health Center, University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center. Cultural Arts Center, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, October 29-30.
15. Stoltz, S. M., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Tanguma, J., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., Medina, B., & Carbajal, E. (2010) A Pilot Study on Nutrition Advice in Clinical Settings and Colonias to Control Weight & Insulin Resistance in the LRGV. Food as Medicine/Comida Como Su Medicina Conference, organized by Daniel E. Hale and Ivette C. Torres, U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Education and Research Center, Regional Academic Health Center, University of Texas San Antonio Health Science Center. Cultural Arts Center, Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, October 29-30.
16. Millard, A. V. (2010). Food Safety Issues on the Border: Recent Problems and Research Needs. Proceedings of the Texas Public Health Association, Annual Meeting. South Padre Island, Texas, April 21-23.
17. Graham, M. A., Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Flores, I., & Wang, X. (2010). Nutrition in the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes on the Texas-Mexico Border. Session: “This is What We Need”: Innovative Methods and Community Collaboration and Participation to Promote Wellness in Traditionally Underserved Population (Rian Davis, Chair). Proceedings of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Annual Meeting, Mérida, Yucatán, México, March 24-27.
18. Mier, N., Ory, M. G., Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Wang, X., Villarreal, E. K., & Alen, M. (2009). Diabetes behaviors and healthcare needs of border Mexican American elders. Proceedings of the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Diabetes Association (June 5-9, New Orleans, LA).
19. Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Mier, N., & Flores I. (2009). Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes on the Texas-Mexico Border. Proceedings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting, March 17-21, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
20. Graham, M. A., Millard, A. V., Wang, X., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., & Flores, I. (2009). Health Promotion among Hispanics on the South Texas Border: A Participatory Approach. Proceedings of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Annual Meeting, March 17-21, Santa Fe, New Mexico. 21. Mier, N., Ory, M. G., Millard, A. V., Graham, M., Wang, X., Villarreal, E. K., Gonzalez, J.L., Luna, D., Ramirez, L., Treviño, L., Flores, I., & Alen, M. (2009). Addressing the diabetes disparity among Hispanic elders through engaging critical community, medical and public sectors. Poster presentation. Proceedings of the CDC 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control Healthy Communities. February 22-25, National Harbor, MD.
22. Stoltz, S. M., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., Medina, B., & Carbajal, E. 9
(2008). Enhancing Nutrition Education – Translational Approaches for lower Rio Grande Valley Patients. Presented at the conference, Switching Tracks: Diabesity Studies in South Texas, organized by Daniel E. Hale. U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Research and Education Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, October 31, Harlingen, Texas.
23. Bletzer, K., Millard, A. V., & Flores, I. (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Transcription Basics [Abstract #166501]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI), Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, 135th Annual Meeting, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C.
24. Bletzer, K., Millard, A. V., & Flores, I. (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Ethnographic Analysis I: Field and Text in Ethnography [Abstract #166497]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI), Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, 135th Annual Meeting, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C.
25. Bletzer, K., Millard, A. V., & Flores, I. (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Ethnographic Analysis II [Abstract #166498]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI) of the Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, 135th Annual Meeting, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C.
26. Mier, N., Ory, M. G., Millard, A. V., Medina, B., Carbajal, E., Sanchez, E. R., & Flores, I. (2007). Piloting a Culturally Sensitive Walking Intervention for Low Income Hispanic Women [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Society for Public Health Education, 58th Annual Meeting, October 31 – November 3. (Project was supported by the NIH—National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (3 R01HD047143-01S1) and the Texas A&M Health Science Center Research Development & Enhancement Awards Program).
27. Bletzer, K. V., Millard, A. V., & Flores, I. (2006). Ethnography Workshop: How to Build Models, Analyze Transcripts, Conduct Interviews [Abstract]. (6-hour workshop). Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting, Boston, November 4-8.
28. Bletzer, K. V., Flores, I. & Millard, A. V. (2006). Ethnography Workshop: How to Analyze Field Interviews [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Western Migrant Stream Forum, Northwest Regional Primary Care Association. Portland, OR, January 27-29,
29. Millard, A. V., Sánchez, E. R., Flores, I., Arden, N., Harris, J. M., McCallum, R. E., & Williamson, M. (2005). Colonia infrastructure and service utilization in Hidalgo County, Texas [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 12-14.
30. Millard, A. V. & Sánchez, E. R. (2005).Concerns of colonia residents in Hidalgo County, Texas, in choosing healthcare providers [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Public Health Association, Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, December 12-14. (Abstract published although the session was canceled later by the organizer.) 10
31. Bletzer, K. V., Flores, I., Millard, A. V. & Schow, D. (2005).Workshop on Doing Interviews in Field Situations [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum, National Center for Farmworker Health, South Padre Island, TX, November 9-12.
32. Bletzer, K. V., Cartwright, E., Chase, C., Flores, I., Millard, A. V. & Stahlman, J. (2005). Ethnography and Model-Building Workshop: How to Analyze Field Interviews [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Western Migrant Stream Forum, Northwest Regional Primary Care Association, San Diego, CA, January 28-30.
33. Millard, A. V., Flores, I. & Esmeralda Sánchez, E. R. (2005).Health of Migrant Farmworkers [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Annual Migrant Parents’ Conference, Texas Migrant Coordinating Council Conference, Region One Education Service Center, State of Texas, South Padre Island, Feb. 28-March 2.
34. Bletzer, K. V., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Chase, C. & Stahlman, J. (2004). Ethnographic Analysis: An Interactive Workshop [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum, National Center for Farmworker Health.
35. Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Gabriel, O., & Flores, S. (2004). Improving Healthcare Access, Quality, and Efficiency for Low-Income Children: Pilot Study Findings [Abstract]. Proceedings of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association.
36. Flores, I., Millard, A. V., & Sánchez, E. R. (2004). Public Health on the Texas-Mexico Border: Enhancing Systems for Disease Reporting and Early Response [Abstract]. Proceedings of the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association.
37. Blakely, C. H., Burdine, J. N., Dorsey, A., Felix, M. R. J., Flores, I., McLeroy, K. R., Millard, A. V., Miller, K. I., Wendel, M. L., & Zuniga, M. A. (2003). Design considerations in the evaluation of the Integrated Health Outreach System Project [Abstract]. In the session, Evaluating the Integrated Health Outreach System Project: a 4-year Effort to Improve Access to Care and Health Status Among Colonia Residents Along the Texas/Mexico Border. Proceedings of the American Public Health Association.
38. Dorsey, A., Miller, K. I., Blakely, C. H., Burdine, J. N., Felix, M. R. J., Flores, I., McLeroy, K. R., Millard, A. V., Wendel, M. L., & Zuniga, M. A. (2003). Evaluating the partnership process: Preliminary results from measuring collaboration among participants in the Integrated Health Outreach System project [Abstract]. In the session, Evaluating the Integrated Health Outreach System Project: a 4-year Effort to Improve Access to Care and Health Status Among Colonia Residents Along the Texas/Mexico Border. Proceedings of the American Public Health Association.
39. Bletzer, K. V., Cartwright, E., Flores, I. & Millard, A. V. (2003). Farm Worker Health Issues and Long-Term Ethnography [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Midwest Migrant Stream Forum, National Center for Farmworker Health.
40. Chapa, J. & Millard, A. V. (2003). Latinos and Race Formation—The Conflation of Legal Status, Race, and National Origin at the new Frontiers of Latino Immigration [Abstract]. 11
Proceedings of the Harvard Colorlines Conference, Harvard Civil Rights Project.
41. Bletzer, K. V.., Millard, A. V. & Cartwright, E. (2003). Step by Step: The Ethnography of Farmworker Health Issues [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Western Migrant Stream Forum, National Center for Farmworker Health.
42. Millard, A. V. (2002). Biosocial Approaches to Health Inequality [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
43. Adams, I. & Millard, A. V. (2002). Evaluation of a Social Marketing Pilot Study: Ethnographic Interviews about Produceman [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
44. Millard, A. V., Ojeda-Macias, N., Flores, I., Medina, L., Olsen, L. G. & Perry, S. (1999). Pesticide Safety among Latino Migrant Workers in Michigan: A Study of the Distribution and Forms of Health Knowledge [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
45. Millard, A. V. (1998). Latina Women in the Migrant Stream: A Case Study of Michigan Farmworkers [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
46. Millard, A. V., Ojeda-Macias, N., Flores, I., Medina, L., Olsen, L. G. & Perry, S. (1998). Formal and Practical Knowledge of Pesticide Safety among Migrant Workers in Michigan [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters.
47. Squier, H., Rylko-Bauer, B., Noel, M., & Millard, A. V. (1993). Medical Education and the Choice of Primary Care [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Family Medicine Association.
48. Rylko-Bauer, B., Millard, A. V., Mullan, P., Noel, M., Cremin, M. C., & Squier, H. (1992). Medical Students' Views Concerning Patient Care and Medical Practice [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
49. Ferguson, A. E., Khaila, S. W., & Millard, A. V. (1989). Agriculture and Nutrition in Malawi [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
50. Millard, A. V. (1989). Infant Morbidity and Mortality: Relationships to Fertility [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
51. Millard, A. V. (1988). Pediatric Breastfeeding Advice 1920-1960: Rationales in Child Care [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
52. Millard, A. V. (1988). The Concept of Fertility Control in International Family Planning [Abstract]. Proceedings of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, 12th International Congress.
53. Millard, A. V. (1988). Measures of Household Demography for Causal Analysis [Abstract]. Proceedings of the 21st Annual Chacmool Conference. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 12
54. Millard, A. V. (1987). A Causal Model of Child Mortality [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
55. Millard, A. V. (1986). Breastfeeding, Fertility, and Child Mortality [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
56. Millard, A. V. (1986). The Strength of Lactation Contraception: Interactions of Culture, Biology and Demography [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society, Society for Medical Anthropology, & Southern Anthropological Society.
57. Millard, A. V., McBride, K. A., & Raulet, H. M. (1985). Some Reflections on Natural Fertility, Target Fertility and Neo-utilitarian Theory in Demography [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
58. Millard, A. V. (1983). Breastfeeding and Family Economics in Rural Mexico [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
59. Millard, A. V. (1982). Cultural Adaptation Examined through Lactation [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
60. Millard, A. V. & Berlin, E. A. (1980). ABO Blood Groups and Sex Ratio in South American Indians: Evolutionary Implications [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
61. Millard, A. V. & Berlin, E. A. (1979). Excess Male: Female Ratios in South American Indians: A New Explanation [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Kroeber Anthropological Society.
62. Berlin, E. A. & Millard, A. V. (1979). ABO Blood Group Distributions in South American Indians: A New Interpretation [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Berkeley, CA: Dept. of Anthropology, University of California.
63. Millard, A. V. (1979). Crow's Index of the Maximum Opportunity for Natural Selection and Genetic Drift [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists.
64. Millard, A. V. (1978). Fertility and Out-migration: Cultural Components and Potential Genetic Effects [Abstract]. Proceedings of the American Anthropological Association.
65. Millard, A. V. (1978). Natural and Unnatural Selection: Economic Situations with Genetic Consequences [Abstract]. Proceedings of the Kroeber Anthropological Society.
Other Publications and Reports 1. Millard, A. V., Stoltz, S. M., Mier, N., Flores, I., & Sánchez, E. R. (2009). A Pilot Study on Nutrition Advice in Clinical Settings and Colonias to Control Weight and Insulin Resistance in the lower Rio Grande Valley. Final Report to the U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Research and Education Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Regional 13
Academic Health Center in Harlingen.
2. Chapa, Jorge & Millard, A. V. (2008). “Latinos.” In Moore, John Hartwell, ed. Encyclopedia of Race and Racism. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA.
3. Flores, I., Millard, A. V., & Donnelly, K. C. (2007). Border Health and Environmental Threats Initiative: Health and Migration. JSRI Research Report 36, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University. http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/irr/rr36abs.html.
4. Millard, A. V. with the assistance of Sánchez, E. R., Medina, B. & Carbajal, E. (2007). Early Prevention of Diabetes & Improved Access to Health Care: The Feasibility of Addressing Healthy Border 2010 Objectives with Community Coalitions in Colonias in South Texas, Phase 1. Published by the U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association. Supported by the Texas State Dept. of Health Services, Office of Border Health.
5. Millard, A. V. with Sánchez E. R., Medina B., & Carbajal E. (2007) Early Prevention of Diabetes & Improved Access to Health Care: The Feasibility of Addressing Healthy Border 2010 Objectives with Community Coalitions in Colonias in South Texas, Phase 2. Final Report to the Texas State Dept. of Health Services, Office of Border Health, Feb. 14, 2007.
6. Flores, I., Millard, A. V., & Donnelly, K. C., Co-Principal Investigators. (2006). Final Report on the Border Health and Environmental Threats Initiative: Health and Migration Section. Final report to Brooks City-Base Foundation.
7. Millard, A. V., (2006). Final Report on the Longitudinal Household Study, Evaluation of the Project, Creating Integrated Health Outreach to Isolated Colonia Residents in Hidalgo County, Texas, 2002-2005 (Craig Blakely, PI, evaluation; James Burdine, PI, project being evaluated). Final report to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
8. Millard, A. V. (2005). Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America [Review of the book], Journal of American Ethnic History 25(1):120-122.
9. Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Gabriel, O., & Flores, S. (2004). CHIP Utilization in South Texas: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Children’s Health Insurance Program. JSRI Research Report 33, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University. http://www.jsri.msu.edu/RandS/research/irr/rr33abs.html
10. Millard, A. V., Chapa, J., Saenz, R., Rochín, R. I., Gouveia, L., Crane, K., Flores, I., Gabriel, J., Garcia y Griego, M., Garza, L., Jefferds, M. D., & Sanchez, T. (2004). Latinos in the Rural 11. Midwest: Community Development Implications. Final Report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. (8 chapters, 435 pages) 14
12. Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Gabriel, O., & Flores, S. (2004). CHIP Utilization in South Texas: A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
13. Bletzer, K., Cartwright, E., Chase, C., Flores, I., & Millard, A. V. (2004). A Conversation on Ethnography. Proceedings of the 2003-2004 Migrant Farmworker Stream Forums. Published by the National Center for Farmworker Health, the Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Bureau of Primary Health Care.
14. Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Ojeda-Macias, N., Medina, L., Olsen, L., & Perry S. (2004). Pesticide Safety Knowledge among Michigan Migrant Farmworkers. JSRI Working Paper No. 55, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
15. Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Gabriel, O., & Flores, S. (2004). City of Mission Project, Final Report including Statistical Results for the RGK Foundation from the Children’s Defense Fund—Rio Grande Valley (January, 2002-June, 2004), August 27.
16. Faraji, B., Sanderson, M., Flores, I., Mier, N., & Millard, A. V. (2004). Food and Nutrient Intake and How It Is Affected by Health Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices. Chapter 5 in R. Sue Day, ed., Nourishing the Future: The case for community-based nutrition research in the lower Rio Grande Valley (pp. 39-51). Houston: University of Texas School of Public Health.
17. Mier, N., Flores, I., Robinson, J. R. C., & Millard, A. V. (2004). Cultural, Demographic, Educational, and Economic Characteristics. Chapter 3 in R. Sue Day, ed., Nourishing the Future: The case for community-based nutrition research in the lower Rio Grande Valley (pp. 15-24). Houston: University of Texas School of Public Health.
18. Mier, N. & Millard, A. V. (2004). City of Mission Project: Final Report. Report to Olga Gabriel, Project Director, & Soledad Flores, Project Assistant/Data Manager, Children’s Defense Fund – RGV. Report to the RGK Foundation.
19. Burdine, J. N., Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., Casas, I., Medina, B., & Vargas, J.J. (2003). Binational Health Services Utilization Pilot Study. Report to the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center.
20. Mier, N. & Millard, A. V. (2003). City of Mission Project: Interim Report, Preliminary Results and Findings. Report to Olga Gabriel, Project Director, & Soledad Flores, Project Assistant/Data Manager, Children’s Defense Fund – RGV. Funded by the RGK Foundation.
21. Millard, A. V. (2003). Every Child a Healthy Child--CHIP Outreach, Education, and Enrollment Project: Final Report and Evaluation. Report to Edanili S. Lacar, Project Director, Child Wellness Council, Rio Grande Valley and Olga Gabriel, Project Administrator, Children’s Defense Fund – Rio Grande Valley. Funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
22. Millard, A. V. (2002). Every Child a Healthy Child--CHIP Outreach, Education, and 15
Enrollment Project: Mid-Course Progress Report and Interim Evaluation. Report to Edanili S. Lacar, Project Director, Child Wellness Council, Rio Grande Valley and Luisa Saenz, Child Health Coordinator, Children’s Defense Fund – RGV. Funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Health Resources and Services Administration.
23. Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Coté, B. and the Ottawa County Collaborative with the assistance of DeLuca, M., Poole, A., Alvarado, M., Nassar, A., Balger, A., DeLind, J., & Jones, A. (2002). Hispanic Migrant Farm Worker Health Survey in Ottawa County: Health Status, Behavioral Risk Factors, and Access to Health Care. Report to the Ottawa County Health Department, Holland, Michigan. East Lansing, MI: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
24. Millard, A. V., Ladia, M. A., Jefferds, M., Heinle, T., Brewer, J., Evans, T., Fisher, S., Hickner, L., Khanchandani, H., Morales, B., Schneider, S., Stone, E., Torres, A., & Watson, M. (2001). Illnesses of Migrant Farm Workers: A Study of Medical Records from Migrant Health Clinics in Michigan. JSRI Statistical Brief (Cifras Breves) No. 13. East Lansing, MI: Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
25. Roeder, V. D. & Millard, A. V. (2000). Gender and Employment among Latino Farmworkers in Michigan. JSRI Working Paper No. 52, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
26. Adams, I. & Millard, A.V. (2000). Evaluation of a Social Marketing Pilot Study: Ethnographic Interviews about Produce Man. Report to Rondi Brown, Michigan Public Health Institute, Okemos, Michigan.
27. Roeder, Vivian D. & Ann V. Millard (2000). Gender and Employment among Migrant Farmworkers in Michigan Studied. Nexo 8(2): 1, 8-9, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University.
28. Neilsen, S. S., Ulate, E., Lopez, E., Bonilla, A., Mason, A., Bennink, M., Ubersax, M., Hosfield, G., & Millard, A.V. (1997). Costa Rica/Michigan State University/Purdue University Project Final Report. Report for Gerber Companies Foundation.
29. Flores, I., Millard, A. V., Perry, S. & Olsen, L. (1995). Worker Pesticide Safety Knowledge Survey and its Relation to the Federal Worker Protection Standard. Final Report for the Michigan Department of Agriculture.
30. Millard, A. V. (1994). Furor in the Academy: Diversity, Cultural Relativism, and Institutional Discrimination. The Graduate Post 2(1):10-13.
31. Millard, A. V. (1993). Topics for Special Issues. Editorial. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 7(1):3.
32. Millard, A. V. & Hurwitz, S. (1993). Weaning Food. In B. K. Rothman [Ed.], Encyclopedia of Childbearing: Critical Perspectives (pp. 419-421). Phoenix: Oryx Press. 16
33. Millard, A. V. (1992). The Political Economy of Malnutrition and Child Mortality. Paper circulated to participants at a conference, "Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology: Building a Biocultural Synthesis," organized by A. Goodman and T. Leatherman, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Oct. 30-Nov. 7. New York: Wenner-Gren Foundation.
34. Millard, A. V. (1992). The Anthropological Analysis of Health. Editorial. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(1):3-5.
35. Millard, A. V. (1991). A Simple Matter of Salt by Renate Lellep Fernandez [Review of the book]. Science 254:133-134.
36. Millard, A. V. (1991). How Will Welfare Reform Affect Poor Children? IPPSR Perspectives 3(3):4. East Lansing, MI: Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, Michigan State University.
37. Millard, A. V. (1990). WID-MUCIA Final Report. Final Report for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
38. Millard, A. V. (1983). Perceptions of a Family Planning Campaign in Rural Mexico. In M. I. Aguwa, [Ed.], Women, Health and International Development (pp. 59-67). East Lansing, MI: Office of Women in International Development, Center for International Programs, Michigan State University.
New Media Productions Texas Feeding Minds Outreach Project, Video Collection/YouTube Channel on Combating Hunger and Obesity in Texas. Interviews posted on YouTube: Millard interviewed 9 staff of Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District and Texas A&M Agrilife Extension on their experiences with our projects funded by the Dept. of State Health Services to physical activity of their elementary students.
JOURNAL ARTICLE REVIEWED Breast-feeding and Weaning in Mexico and the U.S. (1986). Nutrition Reviews 44(3):104-106. Extensively reviews Millard and Graham, Ecology of Food and Nutrition, 1985.
AWARDS (since 2004) Award for Excellence in Texas School Health - Discovery Award, 2011, sponsored by the Texas Department of State Health Services. Award to Albert Lopez, R.N., Coordinator of Health Services, Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District for the Healthy Edinburg Schools Project, which built a walking trail for obesity prevention at two elementary schools.
Woman of Distinction Award, American Association of University Women, State of Texas, 2008. Representative of the McAllen Chapter of the AAUW.
Award for Exemplary Service to a Member of the Board of Directors, Nuestra Clinica del Valle, San Juan, Texas, 2007. 17
Apple Pie and Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest by Millard, A.V., Chapa, J., et al. (2006). Award to Jorge Chapa with recognition for his co-authors, for his scholarship, particularly this book, at the annual meeting of the American Association for Hispanics in Higher Education, San Antonio, Texas.
Award for Innovation to the Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Council (Angel R. Braña, Pres.; Ann V. Millard, Sec.), by the National Association of Development Organizations, Washington, D.C., 2004.
RESEARCH AND SERVICE PROJECT GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS (funded projects and fellowships are numbered)
Current research and project support 1. Community Healthcare InveSted in keeping Patients Active (CHISPA): Integrated Behavioral Health Reducing Diabetes, Obesity, & Depression. El Milagro Clinic, Lawson, Grace (Clinic Director), Flores, Isidore (Program Director), Millard, A.V. (Evaluator). Methodist Healthcare Ministries, U.S. Social Innovation Fund + Matching Funds, 5/1/2015-4/30/2017 ($1,397,775).
2. A Promotora-led Walking Group and Healthy Eating Program for Social Networks in Colonias. Millard, A.V., PI. Knapp Community Care Foundation, 9/1/2015-8/31/2017 ($342,127).
3. Working on Wellness. Carol Rice, PI; Marcia Ory, Co-PI, and many others. Role of Millard, A.V.: policy analysis and evaluation. CDC, 9/1/2014-8/31/2016 (~$1,400,000).
4. Lotería de Comadres Contra el Cancer. Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Garcia, Fernandina P., Program Director; Welsh, Sr. Rosemary, Program Manager, Mercy Ministries of Laredo; Millard, A.V., Evaluator. 8/31/2012-8/30/2015 ($308,579).
3. Community Perceptions of the Environmental Issues Related to the Donna Reservoir: An Environmental Justice CBPR Pilot Study. Institute for Integration of Medicine & Science, CTRC, GCCRI and UTSA (University of Texas-San Antonio), Cantú, Adelita G., PI; Graham, Margaret A. Co-PI; Millard, A.V. and Flores, I., Consultants. 12/1/13- 1/31/15. ($46,514).
4. The Achilles Heel of TB Prevention after a Century of International Medical Programs. Millard, A.V. and Ladia, M.A.J. In support of a paper to be given and manuscript reviews in “Anthropologists Read Impact Evaluations,” a Session at the Asian Development Bank -3ie Impact Evaluation Conference, Manila, 3-5 September 2014. 3ie, International Initiative for Impact Evaluation ($9500).
5. Chagas Disease in Humans, Animals, and Insect Vectors across a Transnational Gradient, Hamer, S., PI, Criscione, C., Millard, A., Hamer, G., Giusti, C., and 18
Goldberg, D., Co-Investigators. One Health Grand Challenge Research Program: Global Health & Security, Texas A&M University, 2014 ($50,000).
6. POD2ER: Prevención y Organización contra la Diabetes y Diálisis con Educación y Recursos/Prevention and Organization against Diabetes and Dialysis with Education and Resources. Millard, A.V., PI, Flores, I., Co-I, Moralez, J., Moya, B., Murtuza, M., Peña, J., & May, M. Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc. grant to International Valley Health Institute, 11/1/14-12/31/15 ($50,000); MHM grant to Texas A&M HSC, 1/1/2016-12/31/2016 ($80,000).
7. POD2ER: Planning for Expansion. Millard, A.V., PI, 4/1/16-8/31/16 ($50,000 from Healthy South Texas 2025).
Prospective Randomized Study Comparing Two Medications for Post-operative Pain Control after Elective Cesarean Delivery and their Effects on Breastfeeding. Elizarraras, Salvador, PI; Hernandez, Cristela, Co-PI, and Millard, A.V., Hale, D., and Reyna, J. 1/1/2014-6/1/2015. (Unfunded pilot project of the McAllen Family Practice Residency, University of Texas Health Science Center-San Antonio)
Breastfeeding Disposition and the Effect of Hospital Support for Lactation. Millard, A.V., PI; Graham, M., Co-PI, Caballero, R., and Carrizales, B. 10/1/2013-6/1/2014. (Unfunded pilot project of the Breastfeeding Action Committee)
Completed research and service project grants and fellowships (funded projects are numbered)
7. 2012-13 Breastfeeding Community Support of Hidalgo & Starr Counties. Texas Department of State Health Services. Longoria, N., Project Director, Cardona, D., Project Manager, Hidalgo County WIC; Millard, A. V., Evaluator. 6/30/12-6/29/13 ($50,000).
8. 2012-13 Safe Cycling at Edinburg Schools. Texas Department of State Health Services. Lopez, A., Project Director, Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District; Millard, A. V., Evaluator. 6/30/12-6/29/13 ($50,000).
9. 2012 Pilot Study of Positive Deviance in Breastfeeding in a Hispanic Population. Graham, M.A. and Millard, A.V. USDA Hispanic Serving Institutions Program. March-Sept. 2012. ($2,790).
10. 2012 SParKH, School Parks for Kids’ Health, A Policy Initiative to Decrease Childhood Obesity, Flores, I. & Millard, A.V. Childhood Obesity Rapid Response Fund, American Heart Association. In-kind co-director, 9/13/12-12/31/12 ($66,873).
11. 2011-12 Obstacles to Breastfeeding in the Rio Grande Valley: Perspectives of Certified Nurse-Midwives, Graham, M. A. & Millard, A.V. Funding for two Public Health Students from the University of Michigan, 2011-2012.
12. 2011-12 SKiP (School Kids and Play) Project: Outdoor Recreation and a Community 19
Coalition to Address Obesity. Texas Department of State Health Services. Lopez, A., Project Director, Edinburg Consolidated Independent School District; Millard, A.V., Evaluator. 6/30/11-6/29/12 ($40,000 with an additional $14,000 supplement).
13. 2011-12 Baby Café. Texas Department of State Health Services. Longoria, N., Project Director, Hernandez, N., Project Manager; Millard, A.V., Evaluator. 6/30/11-6/29/12 ($40,000 with an additional $14,000 supplement).
14. 2010-12 Business Incentives for Food Safety: Theory and Empirical Evidence. Extension of Cooperative Agreement No. 58-4000-9-0058 for Case Studies. Salin V.S., Millard A.V., Ng, D., Jones, E., Capps, O. USDA Economic Research Service. 8/1/10- 6/30/12 ($98,631).
15. 2011-12 Cancer Health Education & Leveraging Partnerships (C-HELP). Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). Lawson G., Project Director, Millard, A. V., Evaluator. 2011-12 ($150,000).
16. 2010-11 Enhancing Infrastructure Supporting Walking: Capacity Building with Some Implementation to Improve the Health of School Children. Millard, A.V., Project Director. Texas Department of State Health Services Contract # 2010-034879-001 ($150,000).
17. 2009-10 Breastfeeding & Health in the lower Rio Grande Valley: A Pilot Study. Millard, A.V., Graham, M. A., Wang, X., Flores, I., Sánchez, E. R., Medina, B., Carbajal, E., & Flores, C. U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Research and Education Center, Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 11/1/09-10/31/10 ($20,000).
2008-09 Collaboration with: Data Analysis, Medical Screening Data, Hidalgo County Colonias. Supported by Hidalgo County, the International Valley Health Institute, South Texas Institutes of Health, and the Family Medical Clinic, College of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science System, San Antonio. Millard, A.V., Consultant (in-kind donation of time).
18. 2008-09 Dietary Recommendations for a Population in South Texas, Stoltz S. M., Millard, A.V., Flores, I., Sánchez, E. R., Mier, N., & Wang, X. U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Research and Education Center, Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio, 3/1/08-2/28/09 ($20,000).
19. 2008 Assessing Healthcare Needs and Self-Care Behaviors of Mexican American Elders with Type 2 Diabetes in South Texas, Mier, N., Millard, A. V., Alen, M. & Zuniga, M. Funding from Research Development and Enhancement Award Program (R-DEAP), Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center ($14,743).
2007-08 Hispanic Elders Project, Mier, N., Project Director; Millard, A. V., Member of the Research Advisory Committee. In-kind support for needs assessment and research 20
proposal planning.
20. 2007-08 Phase 2, Early Prevention of Diabetes and Improved Access to Health Care: The Feasibility of Addressing Healthy Border 2010 Objectives with Community Coalitions in South Texas, Millard, A. V., Project Director. Funding from the Office of Border Health, Texas Department of State Health Services, 8/1/07-1/31/08 ($35,280).
21. 2007 Consultant, Beyond SABOR: A Border-Embedded Health Promotion, Bastida, E. (University of Texas Pan American), NIH, 10/05-9/08 ($1 million).
22. 2007 Travel grant, University of Wisconsin, Marshfield.
23. 2006-07 Millard, A. V., Project Director. Early Prevention of Diabetes and Improved Access to Health Care: The Feasibility of Addressing Healthy Border 2010 Objectives with Community Coalitions in South Texas, Phase 1. Funding from the Office of Border Health, Texas Department of State Health Services, 8/1/06-12/31/06 ($14,000). DSHS Contract No. 7097097093D-2007, Attachment No. 01; DSHS Purchase Order No. 0000319865.
24. 2006 Graham, M. A. & Millard, A. V., Co-Investigator, Awarded, Comparative Research on Maternal and Child Health. $3000 (University of Texas PanAmerican College of Social and Behavioral Sciences).
25. 2004-06 Flores I, Millard, A. V., Sternes, K., Thies, M. L., and Zahn, B. Border Health and Environmental Threats Initiative. Funding from the U.S. Dept. of Defense to Brooks City-Base Foundation, 2004-2006 ($1 million first-year budget). Agreement No. BCBF 0003TAMUHSCF; Prime Contract No. FA8901-04-3-0001; Collaborative Project Order (CPO) FA8901-04-3-5000. Flores, I., Millard A. V., and Donnelly, K. C., Co-Principal Investigators, Health and Migration Section.
26. 2004-06 Millard, A. V. & Flores I. Farm Work & Musculoskeletal Border Health: A Feasibility Study Related to Primary and Secondary Prevention. Funding from Research Development and Enhancement Award Program (R-DEAP), Office of the Vice President for Research and Graduate Studies, Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, 2004-2006 ($13,850). Grant no. 2444 41 08101.
27. 2004-05 Millard, A. V., Director of the Longitudinal Household Study as part of the Evaluation of the Project, Creating Integrated Health Outreach to Isolated Colonia Residents in Hidalgo County, Texas, 2002-2005 (Craig Blakely, PI). Funding from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; RWJ and HRSA fund the project being evaluated (James Burdine, PI). ($4 million total project costs).
25. 2005 Millard, A. V., O’Connor, J. & Chaudet, Sr. M. Healthy Mothers; Healthy Babies. Border Binational Health Week, October, 2005. U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Council, Health Resources 21
and Services Administration ($400).
26. 2004 Lawless, K., Millard, A.V., Hernandez, E., Braña, A. R. Families in Action for Health: Border Binational Health Week, October, 2004. U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, The Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Council, Health Resources and Services Administration ($35,500).
27. 2003 Binational Health Services Utilization Pilot Study (Burdine, J. N., PI; Millard, A. V., Co-PI, Mier, N., Co-Investigator, with Sánchez, E. R., Casas, I., Medina, B., & Vargas, J. J.), funded by the Texas A&M University System Health Science Center, $26,200.
28. 2001-03 Coté, B., Mascoro, C., Lopez, E., et al. (the Ottawa County Collaborative), Millard, A.V., Wille, C., Cuéllar, I. (Julian Samora Research Inst. Team), & Flores, I. (Michigan Public Health Institute). (2001-2003). Behavioral Risk Factor Survey of Migrant Farm Workers in Ottawa County, Michigan.
29. 2003 Chapa, J. & Millard, A. V., Travel grant to attend the Colorlines Conference, Harvard Civil Rights Project, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA (approx. $1930).
30. 2001-02 Canady, R. B., Vasilenko, P., Broman, C., Millard, A. V., & Saint Arnault, D., The Development of a Cultural Competency Assessment Tool as an Intervention for Health Disparities, 2002-2003. Funding from Michigan State University African American Health Initiative, Multidiscplinary Research Program ($50,000).
31. 2000-02 Millard, A.V. with Ladia, M. A., Jefferds, M., et al. collaborating with Health Delivery,Inc., JSRI Migrant Clinic Study, 2000-2002. Funding from Julian Samora Research Institute ($7500, 2002; $7500, 2000) & Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station ($7,500, 2000).
32. 2001 Millard, A. V. Translating Findings into Action using Social Anthropology. Presentation at the Third Annual Michigan Fetal and Infant Mortality Review [FIMR] Network Training Program, Traverse City, MI (approx. $500).
33. 1999-2001 Latinos in the Midwest: Community Development Implications (Rochin, R. I., Original Project Director; Saenz, R., Project Co- Director; Vanderpool, C., Second Project Director; Millard, A. V., Third Project Director with Chapa, J., Co-Director), funded by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, $185,000.
34. 2000 Millard, A. V., Adams, I., and Brown, R. Evaluation of Produce Man, a Social Marketing Project. State of Michigan Department of Community Health and Michigan Public Health Institute (Graduate Research Assistantship provided to Adams). 22
35. 1998-03 Millard, A. V., Chapa, J., Saenz, R. & Rochin, R. I., Latinos in the Rural Midwest: Community Development Implications, 1998-2003, USDA Grant No. 97 36200 5207 to Michigan State University, $185,000.
36. 1998-99 Millard A. V., Year II, What Farm Workers Know about Pesticide Safety: Analysis of the Worker Protection Standard Survey of Farm Employees. Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station ($5,000).
37. 1998 Millard A. V., Travel grant to attend a planning conference for grant on FamilialFactors and the Epidemiological Paradox at the University of California, Berkeley, March 4. UCMEXUS (approx. $700).
38. 1997-98 Millard A. V., What Farm Workers Know about Pesticide Safety: Analysis of the Worker Protection Standard Survey of Farm Employees. Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station ($5,400).
39. 1996-1997 "The Worker Pesticide Knowledge Survey: Measuring the Success of Worker Protection Standard (WPS) Pesticide Safety Training" (Perry, S. & Olsen, L. G., Co- Principal Investigators); Millard, A. V., Flores, I., & Medina, L., Co- Managers. State of Michigan Department of Agriculture, $25,200.
40. 1996 Millard A. V., Travel grant to attend the conference, Social Dimensions of Mexican Health, Riverside, CA, Feb. 27-28. UCMEXUS (approx. $600).
41. 1995-97 Neilsen, S. S., Ulate, E., Lopez, E., Bonilla, A., Mason, A., Bennink, M., Ubersax, M., Hosfield, G., & Millard, A. V. Costa Rica/Michigan State University/Purdue University Project. Gerber Companies Foundation ($140,000).
42. 1995-96 Alexander, C. K., & Millard, A. V. African Americans at the Crossroads of Class and Disability: "Noncompliance" and Patient-Staff Relations. All-University Research Grant, Michigan State University ($4,000).
43. 1995 Morash, M., Bokemeier, J., Groop, R., Levande, D., Sullivan, C., & Millard, A. V. A Proposal to Develop and Apply Geographic Information System Mapping and Analysis to the Study of Domestic Violence, Contact with the Justice System, and Community Service Utilization. Faculty Initiatives Fund, Michigan State University (approx. $8,000).
44. 1995 Millard A. V., Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Women's Studies Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. University of Waikato (approx. U.S. $2,200).
45. 1993-1995 "Worker Protection Standard Survey of Farm Employees" 23
(Olsen, L.G., Perry, S., & Jess, L., Co-Principal Investigators); Millard, A. V., Flores, I., & Medina, L., Co-Managers. Michigan Department of Agriculture, $20,000.
46. 1992 Cremin, M. C., Millard, A. V., Noel, M. M., Squier, H., & Rylko- Bauer, B. The Relationship of Experience in Medical School to Students' Views of Patients and of the Medical Profession. Biomedical Grant, Michigan State University. ($7,500).
47. Millard A. V., Travel Grant to attend the conference, "Political-Economic Perspectives in Biological Anthropology: Building a Biocultural Synthesis," Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Oct. 30-Nov. 7. Wenner-Gren Foundation (approx. $2,500).
48. 1989-1990 "WID-MUCIA Project" (Women in Development- Midwest Universities Consortium for International Activities; Gallin, R., Principal Investigator). Millard, A. V., Director, final year of project. U.S. Agency for International Development, $.5 M.
49. 1989-90 Millard, A. V., Health Policy Addressing a Multicultural Population: A Case Study of the WIC Program. Policy Studies Program, Social Science Research Bureau, Michigan State University ($3,000).
50. 1988-89 Millard, A. V., Anthropological Research on Supplemental Food Policy. All-University Research Initiation Grant, Michigan State University ($7,500).
51. 1989 Millard, A. V., Travel Grant to attend Workshop 1, Rockefeller Foundation Exploratory Health Transition Program, Australia National University, Canberra, 15-19 May, 1989. Rockefeller Foundation (approx. $2,800).
52. 1984 Millard, A. V., Family Planning Programs in Agrarian Societies: Lactation Contraception and its Policy Implication. CASID Faculty Scholar Award, Center for Advanced Studies in International Development, Michigan State University ($3,152).
53. 1977-78 Millard, A. V., Family Demography in Rural Mexico. National Science Foundation, Dissertation Research Program (BNS7683058) ($15,000).
54. 1977 Millard, A. V., Family Demography and Economic Strategies in Rural Mexico. Centro de Investigaciones Superiores del Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia (CISINAH), Mexico City (living expenses of four research assistants in the field for two months; asecond grant award was declined) (approx. $1,200). 24
55. 1976-78 Millard, A. V., Family Demography in Rural Mexico. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin ($5,000).
PRESENTATIONS (in addition to those under Refereed, Published Abstracts) Graham, Margaret, Millard, A., Flores, I., Cantú, A. and Vincentnathan, L. (2014) Donna Lake and Canal PCB Contamination in Fish and Community Health. In the panel, Rio Grande Valley Contamination and Community Health. Health and Health Policies in the Social Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences 8th Annual Research Conference, University of Texas- Pan American (March 27).
Millard, A.V., Lopez, A., Mier, N., Flores, I., Van Cleef, T., and Shipp, E. (2012) Healthy Edinburg Schools: Childhood Obesity Prevention in Hidalgo County, Texas. Hidalgo-Reynosa Public Health Conference, McAllen, Texas (October).
Millard, A.V., Hale, D. & Garza-Abijaoude, L. (2012) Obesity and Breastfeeding. Texas Healthy Babies Conference. Laredo, TX (August 22).
Millard, A.V & Hale, D. (2012) Breastfeeding and Preventing Childhood Obesity. RGV Breastfeeding Coalition Health Fair, Knapp Memorial Hospital, Weslaco, TX (August 4).
Panel Discussant (2012) Diabetes, Curanderos, Health Intervention and Research on the U.S. Mexican Border, A Conversation with Dr. Michael Montoya. Jori Sechrist, Chair. 2012 College of Social & Behavioral Science 6th Annual Research Conference, University of Texas-Pan American (April 13).
Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., & Flores, I. (2011) Breastfeeding in Hidalgo County. Presented at the 6th Annual Breastfeeding Conference, “Brightening Hospitals’ Strategies Toward Breastfeeding Success,” sponsored by the Rio Grande Valley Breastfeeding Coalition. Knapp Memorial Hospital, Weslaco, Texas (August 18).
Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Flores, I., van Cleef, T., Edna K. Villarreal, E.K., & Lopez, A. (2011) Childhood Obesity Prevention on the Texas-Mexico Border. Poster presented at the 2nd Annual Border Research Forum, facilitated by the Brownsville-Matamoros Binational Health Council. Brownsville, Texas (October 4).
Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Flores, I., Rodriguez, M., Morín, T., Wang, X., Carbajal, E., Carbajal, C., & Palacios, M. (2010). Breastfeeding & Health in the LRGV: A Pilot Study. Presented at a conference of the Valley Chapter of Texas Perinatal Association Presentation organized by Sylvia Sandoval. Knapp Memorial Hospital, Weslaco, Texas (Oct. 15).
Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Mier, N., & Flores, I. (2009). Economic and Experiential Views of Type 2 Diabetes. In the session, Diabetes Prevention in the Texas Borderlands. M. A. Graham, Moderator; A. V. Millard, Convenor. International Week, University of Texas Pan American, Edinburg, Texas (Nov. 16-20).
Millard, A. V., Graham, M. A., Mier, N., & Flores, I. (2009). Why Health Insurance Reform? The Example of Type 2 Diabetes on the Texas-Mexican Border. In the session, Health Issues 25
Confronting Latinos/as, D. Ariza, Moderator. Latino/a Communities in the Midwest, 20th Anniversay Celebration Conference, Julian Samora Research Institute, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (Nov. 5-7).
Graham, M. A., Millard, A. V., Wang, X., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., & Flores, I. (2009). DEEP in South Texas: A Participatory Health Promotion Project in Border Colonias. University of Texas - Pan American, Pan American Days/Festiba/SBS Research Conference, Edinburg, Texas (March 25).
Stoltz, S. M., Millard, A. V., Flores, I., Mier, N., Sánchez, E. R., & Carbajal, E. (2008). Enhancing Nutrition Education – Translational Approaches for lower Rio Grande Valley Patients. Presented at the conference, Switching Tracks: Diabesity Studies in South Texas, organized by Daniel E. Hale. U.S. Hispanic Nutrition Research and Education Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Regional Academic Health Center in Harlingen, Harlingen, Texas (Oct. 31).
Chapa, J., Flores, I., Millard, A. V. & Saenz, R. (2006). Apple Pie and Enchiladas: New Latino Immigrants. In panel organized by Chapa, J. American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Conference, San Antonio (March 3-4).
Millard, A. V., Flores, I., & Sánchez. E. R. (2005, Feb.). Health and Work in South Texas. Annual Migrant Parents’ Conference, Region 1, Texas Migrant Coordinating Council Conference, Region One Education Service Center, State of Texas, South Padre Island (Feb. 28- March 2).
Millard, A. V. & Chaudet, Sr. M. (2005). Healthy Motherhood; Healthy Babies, session organized with Sr. Mary Chaudet for Binational Border Health Week in the lower Rio Grande Valley, Holy Family Services Birth Center, Weslaco, Texas (Oct. 12-13).
Millard, A. V. (2003). Research with Farm Workers—Asking Questions that Suit the Context. Paper presented at a conference, Midwest Migrant Stream Forum, Houston, Texas (Nov.).
Millard, A. V., Coté, B., & Flores, I. (2002). Migrant Farm Workers and Health Inequality. Paper presented at a conference, Migrant Farm Worker Research Reports, Agriculture and Natural Resources Week, Michigan State University (Mar.).
Poole, A., Coté, B., Millard, A., Nassar, A., & Alvarado, M. (2002, April). Health Survey of Latino Migrant Farmworkers in Ottawa County. Poster presented at the Spring Research Forum for Undergraduate Research, Michigan State University.
Millard, A. V. (2001). Translating Findings into Action using Social Anthropology. Presentation at the Third Annual Michigan Fetal and Infant Mortality Review [FIMR] Network Training Program, Traverse City, MI (Sept.).
Chapa, J. & Millard, A. V. (2001). The Growing Latino Presence in Rural Indiana. Presentation to Annual Meeting, USDA Rural Development Indiana Staff, Lafayette, Indiana (June). 26
Chapa, J. & Millard, A. V. (2001). What is a Latino? Characteristics of Latino Culture. Paper presented at a conference, “The Old Neighborhood is Changing: Covering the New Latino Community.” American Society of Newspaper Editors, Nashville, TN (Feb.).
Millard, A. V., Flores, I., & Garcia, M. (2001). Migrant Farm Workers: Yesterday and Today. Presentation at a conference, Hispanic Seniors in the Millennium. Michigan Hispanic Senior Citizens Coalition. Lansing, MI (Sept.).
Millard, A. V. (2001, October). A Model of Causes of Health Disparity: Child Mortality in Less Developed Countries. Paper presented at a conference, Health Disparity Workshop, Dept. of Epidemiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.
Millard, A. V. (2000, August). Methodological Issues in Agricultural Surveys: Data on Migrant Farm Workers. Paper presented at a conference, Census Working Group of IUPLR (Inter-University Program on Latino Research), South Bend, IN.
Ojeda Macias, N., Medina, L. K., & Millard, A. V. (1998, February). La Familia y Grupo Domestico: Estrategias en la Migracion Agricola Internacional. Paper presented at a conference, El Simposio Familia y Parentesco en Mexico y Mesoamerica: Miradas Antropologicas, organized by David Robichaux. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.
Millard, A. V. (1996, February). Exploring the Social Context and Significance of High Rates of Child Mortality in Rural Mexico. Paper presented at a conference,
Social Dimensions of Mexican Health, organized by Arthur Rubel and Juan Vicente Palerm, UCMEXUS, Riverside, California.
Millard, A. V. (1992, September). Contraception and Catholicism in rural central Mexico. Paper presented at a conference, Demography in Mexico, organized by Marisol Perez Lizaur, Mexico City.
Millard, A. V. & Ferguson, A. E. (1990, October). Women and the Malnutrition of Children: Analytic Approaches and Research Questions. Paper presented at the North America Conference of Women and International Development and the Society for International Development. East Lansing, MI.
Millard, A. V. (1989, November). Introduction, Infant Morbidity and Mortality: Relationships to Fertility. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Ferguson, A. E., Graham, M. A., & Millard, A. V. (1989, November). Introduction, Nutrition and Agriculture: Exploring the Links. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Millard, A. V., Ferguson, A. E., & Khaila, S. W. (1989, May). Agricultural Development and Malnutrition in Developing Countries: A Causal Model of Child Mortality. Paper presented at 27
a conference, the Rockefeller Foundation Exploratory Health Transition Program, Workshop 1, Social, Cultural and Behavioral Factors Affecting Health: What is the Evidence?, Australia National University, Canberra.
Millard, A. V. (1988, November). Introduction, Cultural Patterning of Intimacy, Training and Abuse: Breastfeeding, Child Feeding and Child Care. American Anthropological Association, Annual Meeting, Phoenix.
Millard, A. V. (1988, April). Introduction, Fertility and its Context: Biology, Culture, Economy. American Ethnological Society, Society for Medical Anthropology & Southern Anthropological Society, Joint Annual Meeting, Wrightsville Beach, N.C.
Meyering, A., McBride, K., Millard, A. V., & Raulet, H. (1988). Introduction, Fertility Transitions: Reflections from a Historical Perspective and Implications for Development. East Lansing, MI.
Millard, A. V. (1981, October). The Evolution of the Human Diet. Paper presented to the Chicago Academy of Sciences. Chicago.
Millard, A. V. (1980, October). A Biological Explanation for Excess Male Births among South American Indians. Paper presented to the Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
Berlin, E. A. & Millard, A. V. (1979, May). Introduction, Population, Culture and Biology. Kroeber Anthropological Society, Annual Meeting, Berkeley.
TEACHING
Continuing Education Workshops
Bletzer, Keith V., Millard, Ann V., and Flores, Isidore (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Transcription Basics [Abstract #166501]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI) of the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C. Bletzer, Keith V., Millard, Ann V., and Flores, Isidore (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Ethnographic Analysis I: Field and Text in Ethnography [Abstract #166497]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI) of the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C. Bletzer, Keith V., Millard, Ann V., and Flores, Isidore (2007) Ethnography Workshop: Ethnographic Analysis II [Abstract #166498]. Session 2019, Nov. 4, APHA Learning Institute (APHA-LI) of the 135th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, November 3-7, 2007, Washington, D.C. Mier, Nelda, Ory, Marcia G., Millard, Ann V., Medina, Bonny, Carbajal, Ester, Sanchez, Esmeralda R., Flores, Isidore. (2007). Piloting a Culturally Sensitive Walking Intervention for Low Income Hispanic Women [Abstract]. Society for Public Health Education, 58th Annual Meeting, October 31 – November 3. (Project was supported by the NIH—National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (3 R01HD047143-01S1) and the Texas A&M Health Science Center Research Development & Enhancement Awards Program). Bletzer, Keith V., Millard, Ann V., and Flores, Isidore (2006). Ethnography Workshop. APHA Learning Institute, American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., November 3-7. Bletzer, Keith V., Millard, Ann V., and Flores, Isidore (2006). Ethnography Workshop: How to Build Models, Analyze Transcripts, Conduct Interviews [Abstract]. (6-hour workshop) American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Boston, November 4-8. Bletzer, K.V., Millard, A.V. & Flores, I. (2005). Workshop on doing Interviews in Field Situations. Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum, South Padre Island, TX, November 9-12, sponsored by the National Center for Farmworker Health. 28
Bletzer, K.V., Flores, I., & Millard, A.V. (2005). Workshop on doing Interviews in Field Situations. Midwest Farmworker Stream Forum, South Padre Island, TX, November 9-12, sponsored by the National Center for Farmworker Health. Bletzer, K.V., Millard, A., Cartwright, E., Flores, I., & Stahlman, Joe (2005). Ethnography Workshop: How to Analyze Field Interviews. Western Migrant Stream Forum, San Diego, CA. Sponsored by the Northwest Regional Primary Care Association. Bletzer, K.V., Cartwright, E., Flores, I., Millard, A., & Stahlman, Joe (2004). Ethnography and Model-Building Workshop: How to Analyze Field Interviews. Midwestern Farmworker Stream Forum, Denver, CO, sponsored by the National Center for Farmworker Health. Bletzer, K.V., Cartwright, E., Flores, I. & Millard, A. (2003). Farm Worker Health Issues and Long-Term Ethnography. Workshop provided for the Midwest Migrant Stream Forum, Houston, Texas, sponsored by the National Center for Farmworker Health. Bletzer, K.V., Millard, A. & Cartwright, E. (2003). Step by Step: The Ethnography of Farmworker Health Issues Workshop provided for the Western Migrant Stream Forum, Mesa, AZ, sponsored by the National Center for Farmworker Health.
Faculty Advisor and Practicum Faculty Advisor, School of Rural Public Health 2014- Melissa Caro, Krystal Flores, Jose Luis Garcia, Miriam Garcia, Crystal Garza, Juan Garza, José Lopez, Gerardo Martinez, Rogelio Mendoza, Jesus Moralez, Benito Moya, Mohommed Murtuza, Jessica Pena, Cynthia Perez, Hector Perez, Iris Reyes, Miguel Setien, Cassandra Trevino, Jose Vera, Italo Zecca; certificate student advisese: Veronica Cabrera, Stephanie Reynolds, Rachel Udow, Vanessa Villarreal 2007-2013 Dora Chavez, José Cruz, Rosemary Fuentes, Diana Garcia, Cynthia Guerra, Richard Scott Horney, José Lopez, Rose Lucio, Glenn Martinez, Anna Maria Pulido, Leonel Ramirez, Melissa Rodriguez, Kassandra Suarez, Rachel Udow, Andrea Valdez, Tricia Van Cleef, Maria Luisa Velasco, Edna Villarreal 2002-2004 Edinali Lacar, Carlos Pacheco 2002-04 Dores Jay-Pang, Rebecca Silva, Edinali LaCar, D. Pacheco 2002-03 Eduardo Borjon, Cynthia Martinez, Margarita Tagle-Greenlees
Mentoring Undergraduate, Graduate, and Medical Students and Organizing Internships 1999-00 Faculty researcher overseeing the work of Teresa Heinle, Professorial Assistant 1999 Mentor for a McNair-SROP student, Renelinda Arana 1999 Organized internships for a graduate and an undergraduate student in medical anthropology. 1998-99 Mentor for a McNeil-SROP Scholar, Stephanie Scott . 1997-98 Mentor for a College of Social Science major, Diane Tuy 1998 Organized internships for three undergraduate students in health and development, Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. 1997 Supported and supervised a graduate student who carried out field work in Costa Rica and produced a report. 1994 Introduction of two graduate students to field work in migrant labor camps, Michigan. 1991-93 Supported and supervised two graduate students as Editorial Assistants for Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 1992 Organized internships with a colleague for two graduate students at Michigan Public Health Institute. 1985-89 Publications co-authored with two graduate students. 1983, 85 Supervision of a graduate student initiating two field work projects, Peru. 1982 Supervision of a graduate student carrying out field work in Sierra Leone
Chair, Graduate Students’ Committees at Michigan State University and elsewhere Current committee membership, Michigan State University: Inez Adams
Recent committees co-chaired, Michigan State University: Karen Kelly-Blake, Jennifer Brewer
Former students who went on to academic positions in the U.S. and abroad: Eufracio Abaya, Dept. of Anthropology, University of the Philippines Laura Cahue, Dept. of Anthropology, University of South Carolina Michael Ennis-McMillan, Dept. of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Skidmore College Margaret A. Graham, Dept. of Anthropology and Psychology, University of Texas Pan American J. Carey Jackson, M.D., University of Washington Medical School, Harbor Campus Catherine P. Kingfisher, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada 29
Mary Ann Ladia, Dept. of Health, the Philippines Nomlindelo Mfenyana, Dept. of Community Health, University of Transkei, South Africa Sara Quandt, Dept. of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University Debra Rothenberg, M.D., formerly, School of Medicine, University of Wisconsin, Madison Suzanne Schneider, Goucher College
Former students working in applied anthropology: Carrie Alexander, administrator, occupational therapy unit Virginia Anggraeni, BKKBN (Family Planning), Indonesia Sister Mary Christine Cremin, administrator, outpatient clinic Cloe Ann Danford, nursing, Spectrum Health Care, Grand Rapids, Michigan Mariaelena Jefferds, U.S. Public Health Service and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Molly Lauck, health researcher Ruskandar, BKKBN (Family Planning), Indonesia Ruth Scott, formerly, Dept. of Pediatrics, Michigan State University
Member, graduate committees: M.A. committee of Lucia Bascuñan, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City Member of M.A. and Ph.D. committees of students in anthropology, education, psychology, social work, criminal justice, and interdisciplinary social science.
Classes Taught School of Rural Public Health Year Taught Public Health-Social Introduction to Border Health 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012 & Behavioral 620 Public Health-Social Program Evaluation 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 & Behavioral 613 Public Health-Social Directed Study 2010, 2012, 2013 & Behavioral 685 Public Health-Social Social Determinants of Health, taught with Dr. Tom Tai-Seale 2008, 2009 & Behavioral 603 in 2008; a web-based course Public Health-Social Social Determinants of Health, taught with Dr. Nelda Mier 2006 & Behavioral 603 to cohorts in McAllen & Laredo, Texas Border Health Elective, TAMUS Health Science Center College of Medicine (co- 2006 instructor with Dr. Maria Alen) Orientation, Border Health Academy, Florida State University College of Medicine 2005-2012 Public Health-Social Social Determinants of Health, lecturer 2004 & Behavioral 603 Continuing Education Workshops for national meetings on migrant health & public health meetings (see above) 2003-2008
Undergraduate Courses Anthropology 100 Human Evolution 1980, '81, '84, '85, '86, '87, '88, '92 Anthropology 270 Women and Health 1995, 97, ‘98, ‘99, ‘00, ‘01 Anthropology 407 Interactions of Nutrition and Culture 1981, ‘82, ‘83, ‘84, ‘85 Anthropology 442 Genes and Diversity 1993, ‘95, ‘97, ‘99 Anthropology 444 Human Diversity 1984, 1986 Anthropology 470 Food, Hunger, and Society 1995, 1998 Anthropology 490 Microevolution of Contemporary Populations 1980, 1981, 1982 Anthropology 490 Olin Health Center Advocates, Independent Study 1998, 1999 Anthropology 490 Independent Study 1998 and most other years Anthropology 499 Readings in Anthropology 1980, 1981
Integrative Studies 30 in Social Science 215 Social Differentiation and Inequality 1994, 1997, 1998 Social Science 493 Undergraduate Internships in Tanzania 1998
Graduate Seminars Anthropology 800B Human Evolution, Professional Masters' Program 1984, 1987 Anthropology 820 Seminar in Medical Anthropology 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 Anthropology 834 Medical Anthropology Overview I: A Theoretical Overview 1994 Anthropology 835 Medical Anthropology Overview II: Current Research Topics 1998, 1999, 2001 Anthropology 843 Nutritional Anthropology 1995, 1999 Anthropology 872 Food and Adaptation 1980, 1983, 1984, 1987 Anthropology 872 Independent Study 1986, 1987 Anthropology 872 Theoretical Overview of Medical Anthropology 1980, 1982 Anthropology 880 Readings in Anthropology 1981 Anthropology 892 Anthropology of Reproduction 2001
College of Human Medicine Mini-course, Phase I Genetic Defects in Populations, Focus on Cystic Fibrosis 1980 Human Medicine 505 Focal Problems in Medicine,* Clinical Science, Term I 1985 Human Medicine 510 Focal Problems in Medicine, Phase I, Term I 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985 Human Medicine 512 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track I, Year I 1980, 1982 Human Medicine 514 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track II, Year II 1981, 1983 Human Medicine 515 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track II, Year II 1981, 1983 Human Medicine 555 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track II, Year II 1984 Human Medicine 560 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track II, Year II 1984 Human Medicine 561 Focal Problems in Medicine, Track II, Year II 1984 Human Medicine 570 The Cultural Basis of Medicine 1986, 1988, 1990, 1992 Human Medicine 590 Focal Problems 1985
House Officer Instruction, St. Lawrence Hospital Pediatrics Clinic 1981
SERVICE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2015-16, Member of a Federal Government Public Advisory Committee: Border Reproductive Health Technical Work Group, U.S.-Mexico Border Health Commission, HHS-Office of Global Affairs, and State Offices of Border Health.
2014-present, Member of the Advisory Committee to Family and Consumer Sciences, AgriLife Extension of Hidalgo County, Edinburg, Texas.
2012, Millard, A.V. and Hale, D. Breastfeeding and Preventing Childhood Obesity. RGV Breastfeeding Coalition Health Fair, August 4. Knapp Medical Center, Conference Center, Weslaco.
2012, Millard, A.V., Hale, D. and Garza-Abijaoude, L. Obesity & Breastfeeding. Healthy Texas Babies Conference, August 23. Holiday Inn Civic Center, Laredo. 31
2012, Panel Discussant, Diabetes, Curanderos, Health Intervention and Research on the U.S. Mexican Border, A Conversation with Dr. Michael Montoya. Jori Sechrist, Chair. 2012 College of Social & Behavioral Science 6th Annual Research Conference, University of Texas-Pan American (April 13).
2009, Faculty advisor to José Cruz, funded by the Mount Sinai International Student Exchange Program for Minority Students, June 5-August 24, 2009, Research in Brazil with Practicum Preceptor, Frederico Peres, PhD, Vice-Director, CESTEH / ENSP / FIOCRUZ, The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Brazilian Ministry of Health. (Millard was Practicum Faculty Advisor.)
2006-2010, Educational/Community Service Representative, Board of Directors, Nuestra Clinica del Valle, San Juan, Texas (term, 6/27/06-6/27/10). Member of the Finance Committee (2007-), the Operational Assessment Ad Hoc Committee (2006-2008), the Medical Committee (2008-).
2008-present, Member, Advisory Committee, Children’s Defense Fund—Lower Rio Grande Valley, McAllen, Texas.
2007-2008, President, Board of Directors, Nuestra Clinica del Valle (a federally qualified clinic and migrant health center), San Juan, Texas.
2005-2008, Program Vice-President, American Association of University Women, McAllen Chapter, Melba Zaremba, President.
2004-2007, Member, Scientific Advisory Committee, EXPORT (Excellence in Partnerships for Community Outreach, Research on Health Disparities, and Training) Project, Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Patti J. Patterson, PI. Funded by the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, National Institutes of Health.
Presentations and Workshop Facilitation in addition to those in preceding sections 2000a Discussion Facilitator, Group on Health and Environment, at the conference, Identifying Issues and Opportunities for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Research and Outreach Programs.
2000b Annual Meeting of the Interagency Migrant Services Committee, Agriculture and Natural Resources Week, Michigan State University, March 7.
1989-91 Workshop Organizer, Camp Visitors' Program, Cristo Rey Community Center, Lansing,
Memberships on Committees of Professional Associations 2005-2008 Officer, Training for Transformation Task Force, Lower Rio Grande Valley 2003-2007 Secretary, Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Council, McAllen, Texas 2003-2007 Board Member, Binational Border Health Council of McAllen-Reynosa 2000-02 Chair, Search Committee for the Editor of Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Society for Medical Anthropology 1991-94 Chair, Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Society for Medical Anthropology 32
1991.94 Member Ex-Officio, Executive Committee, Society for Medical Anthropology 1989.90 Chair, Research and Funding Committee, Council on Nutritional Anthropology 1986-89 Member, Executive Committee, Biological Anthropology Section 1988 Member, Award Committee, Polgar and Rivers Prizes in Medical Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology 1987-88 Member, Nominations Committee, Council on Nutritional Anthropology 1985-90 Member, Editorial Board, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, Society for Medical Anthropology
Editorships 1991-94 Editor, Medical Anthropology Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association. 1981-82 Founding Editor, Working Papers on Women in International Development, Center for International Programs, Michigan State University
Editorial Board Membership 2004- Advisory Board, Latinos in Chicago and the Midwest Series, University of Illinois Press, Editor, Frances Aparicio, Director of the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, University of Illinois at Chicago.
Reviewer for various publications and foundations, including Annals of Internal Medicine (2000), Medical Anthropology Quarterly (2001), Current Anthropology (2001, 2002), American Anthropologist (1999), Human Organization (2002-3, 2009, 2013), Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2011-12), Medical Anthropology (1998), National Science Foundation, Rural Health, Preventing Chronic Disease (2009), Social Science and Medicine, and Wenner-Gren Foundation.
COMMUNITY AND NATIONAL SERVICE
Evaluation & Consulting 2012-15 Evaluator, Lotería de Comadres Contra el Cancer; Bingo Games among Friends against Cancer, funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas grant to Mercy Ministries of Laredo. 2012-13 Evaluator, Safe Cycling at Edinburg Schools, funded by the Texas Dept. of State Health Services. 2011-12 Evaluator, SKiP (School Kids and Play) Project: Outdoor Recreation and a Community Coalition to Address Obesity, funded by the Texas Dept. of State Health Services. 2011-12 Evaluator, El Milagro Clinic for a project funded by the Cancer Prevention and Research Initiative of Texas to provide cancer screening to mothers and daughters. 2008-09 Evaluator, Children’s Defense Fund – Rio Grande Valley for a project funded by the American Academy of Pediatrics to Dr. Koo for expansion of the CHIP enrollment project. 2003-04 Evaluator, with Nelda Mier, Children’s Defense Fund – Rio Grande Valley for the City of Mission Project, a longitudinal study of families with children enrolled in government health insurance programs (CHIP and Medicaid). 2002-03 Evaluator, Child Wellness Council, Rio Grande Valley and Children’s Defense Fund – Rio Grande Valley for a Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment project. 1998-00 Consultant to team designing a study, Familial Factors and the Epidemiological Paradox 33
(Sylvia Guendelman and Juan-Vicente Palerm, Principal Investigators). UCMEXUS, Riverside, California, funded for $25,000. 1985 Member of a team designing exhibit on human variation, "Ethics and Biomedicine." Impressions 5 Museum, Lansing, Michigan.
Memberships in South Texas Research Initiative Consortia and Collaboratives Cancer Prevention and Research Initiative of Texas Collaborative of Hidalgo County, 2009-present, Convenor, 2010-present. Hispanic Elders Project, Nelda Mier, Project Director; Member of the Research Advisory Committee, 2007-2008. In-kind support for needs assessment and research proposal planning. Lower Rio Grande Valley Nutrition Intervention Research Initiative, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science System at Houston (2002-2007). Binational Mental Health Services Assessment, C-BIRD, University of Texas at Brownsville (2003- 2006). Border Health and Environmental Security Initiative, Brooks City-Base, San Antonio (2004-2006).
Interviews and Conference Presentations Interview with Wisconsin Public Radio, Marshfield, WI, 2007, to discuss the book, Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers to the rural Midwest. Interview with Tim Smith, host, 2005, Talking with Tim, NewsTalk 1700 KVNS, Brownsville, Texas, on the book, Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers to the rural Midwest. Interview with Michigan Public Radio, 2005, on Latino newcomers to the rural Midwest. Interview with Ron Whitlock, Valley Newsline, 2004, on the City of Mission Project and CHIP utilization. Interview with Neo Canales, McAllen city government TV station, 2003, on the South Texas Center for Rural Public Health. Interview with Paul van Kolken, The Holland Sentinel, for an article, Migrant Health Focus of Study. 9/10/2001, p. 1. Millard, A.V. (2000). Health and Environment Workgroup Facilitator at the conference, Identifying Issues and Opportunities for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Research and Outreach Programs, sponsored by the Interagency Migrant Services Committee and Julian Samora Research Institute, State of Michigan, March 7, East Lansing. Interview with Steve Greenhouse, New York Times reporter, on children working in the fields, 2001.
Other Community Service Convenor, Education Summit, American Association of University Women, McAllen, Texas, March 29, 2008. Millard, A.V. and Flores, I., (2008). Transformation Training, Holy Family Birth Center, Weslaco, Texas. Convenor, Education Summit, American Association of University Women, McAllen, Texas, April 14, 2007. Program Vice-President, American Association of University Women, McAllen Chapter, 2006-2008. Millard, A. V., Flores, I., & O’Connor, J. (2006-7). Transformation Training, Holy Family Birth Center, Weslaco, Texas. 34
Millard, A. V., Flores, I., &d O’Connor, J. (2006). Engagement with Colonia Communities, Hidalgo County, Texas. Millard, A. V., Mier, N., Gabriel, O., & Flores, S. (2003). Health insurance and children’s access to care: An evaluation of CHIP. Poster presentation at South Texas Center, McAllen, January. Nurturing the Future of the Lower Rio Grande Valley (2004), presentations to and discussions with: Community Action Council of South Texas, Holy Family Birth Center, Starr County Memorial Hospital, La Leche League, Roma Independent School District. Presentation to the RGK Foundation, Austin, Texas (March, 2004): The City of Mission Project and Access to Health Services for Children in Hispanic Families. Presented by Millard as evaluator, with Mier, of the project. Team member, Michigan Farm Labor Associates, Lansing, 1988-92. Interpreter, Clinica del Cristo Rey, Cristo Rey Community Center, Lansing, 1980-81.
TRAINING AND EXPERIENCE IN RESEARCH
Training obtained 2007 Assessment of an Intervention, training by Belinda Reininger & Theresa Byrd, Hidalgo County Health Department and State of Texas Dept. of State Health Services, Office of Border Health, Edinburg, Texas, May 16-17, 2007. 2007 Meeting the Public Health Challenge: Strategies to Protect and Improve the Health of Communities, training by Belinda Reininger & Theresa Byrd, Hidalgo County Health Department and State of Texas Dept. of State Health Services, Office of Border Health,, Edinburg, Texas, October 10-11, 2007. 2006 Training in Community Needs Assessment, Planning and Evaluation, Office of Border Health, Texas Dept. of State Health Services, Harlingen. Two workshops by Dr. Belinda Reininger. 1988-89 Training for Transformation, Phase I and II workshops on participatory community development directed by Anne Hope and Sally Timmel, Center of Concern, Washington, D.C. 1984 International Nutrition Workshop directed by Nevin Scrimshaw, International Commission on Anthropology and Food, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Ethnographic field work in South Texas, rural Michigan, Mexico, Peru, East & West Africa
Language: fluent in written and spoken Spanish
MEMBERSHIPS
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Council on Nutritional Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology, Society for Medical Anthropology American Association of University Professors, American Association of University Women American Evaluation Association American Public Health Association (APHA) and various subsections Lower Rio Grande Valley Border Health Association (formerly extant) McAllen-Reynosa Binational Health Council (formerly extant) Cameron-Hidalgo-Starr-Willacy County Binational Health Council (formerly extant) Michigan State University: Julian Samora Research Institute 35
Society for Applied Anthropology (Sustaining Fellow) U.S.-Mexico Border Health Association