Global Health Resource Guide: Keynote: Dr. Judith Lasker

Dr. Judith Lasker is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA, USA. Her lifelong interest in sociology centers on the study of health and medical care. Her latest project on global health volunteering brings career interests full circle to her earliest research on the health care system of Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa.

Selected Publications:

• Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering  Cornell University Press, 2016
• Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the USA ( Ed Collom, Judith N. Lasker, and Corrine Kyriaucou)  Ashgate Publishing, 2012
• In Search of Parenthood: Coping with Infertility and High Tech Conception (Judith N. Lasker and Susan Borg). Revised edition, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994
• When Pregnancy Fails: Families Coping with Miscarriage, Ectopic Pregnancy, Stillbirth and Infant Death (Susan Borg and Judith N. Lasker,) Revised edition, New York: Bantam Books, 1989