| 2007-present |
Graduate Student |
University of Washington (Seattle), Department of
Anthropology |
| 2007-2010 |
Master of Arts in Anthropology |
University of Washington (Seattle), Department of
Anthropology |
| 2003-2006 |
Master in Public Health |
University of San Carlos (Guatemala), School of Medicine |
| 2003-2003 |
Certificate: Multiculturalism, Gender and Health |
Latin American Social Sciences Faculty (FLACSO)
(Guatemala) |
| 2001 |
Certificate: Strategic Analysis of Health Policy and
Systems |
Rafael Landívar University (Guatemala), School
of Health Sciences |
| 1994-2000 |
Physician and Surgeon (Licentiate) |
University of San Carlos (Guatemala), School of Medicine |
| 2010-present |
Principal Investigator |
Dissertation Research: “Epidemiology and the
everyday life of the right to health in post-war Guatemala” |
| 2009-2010 |
Principal Investigator |
Pre-Dissertation Research: “The social life of
the right to health in post-war Guatemala” |
| 2007-2009 |
Research Assistant |
Professor Angelina Godoy – Law, Society and
Justice, University of Washington |
| 2003-2006 |
Principal Investigator |
Thesis for Master degree: “Social difference and
home health care in a K’iche’ community” |
| 2000 |
Principal Investigator |
Thesis for Licentiate degree: “Iron nutritional
status in Guatemala: realities and perspectives” |
| Jul-Nov 2011 |
Instructor |
“Antropología Médica” (Medical Anthropology). Universidad
del Valle de Guatemala. |
| May-Aug 2011 |
Instructor |
“Gestión Social de la Salud” (Management of the Social Aspects of Health).
Master in Public Health program. Universidad Rafael Landívar,
Guatemala. |
| Fall 2010 |
Pre-doctoral Instructor |
ANTH 475 “Perspectives in
Medical Anthropology”. University of Washington. |
| Summer 2010 |
Pre-doctoral Instructor |
LSJ 322 “Human Rights in
Latin America”. University of Washington. |
| Summer 2010 |
Pre-doctoral Instructor |
ANTH 475 “Perspectives in
Medical Anthropology”. University of Washington. |
| Fall 2009 |
Pre-doctoral Instructor |
ANTH 475 “Perspectives in
Medical Anthropology”. University of Washington, Evening Degree
Program. |
| Spring 2009 |
Teaching Assistant |
HUM 211 “Justice and Global
Health” – Professors Mathew Sparke
(Geography) and Janelle Taylor (Anthropology). Simpson Center for the
Humanities, University of Washington
|
| Fall 2007 |
Teaching Assistant |
LSJ 362 “Law and Justice:
Introduction to Social Theory” - Professor
Angelina Godoy – Law, Society and Justice, University of
Washington
|
| 2007 – 2010 |
Project Co-Director |
Project “Balancing Health and Wealth: The Human
Rights Challenge to the Contemporary Intellectual Property
Regime” - Center for Law, Society and Justice - DeJuSticia
(Bogotá, Colombia) |
| 2006-2007 |
Consultant |
Project “Social construction of health futures in
Guatemala”- United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Guatemala |
| Fall 2006 |
Consultant |
Project “Women in Guatemala and the Right to
Health: effects of CAFTA
on Access to Essential Medicines”- Center for Policy Analysis on
Trade
and Health (CPATH) |
| 2003-2006 |
Local Coordinator |
Pilot Primary Health Care Project –
Clínica Maxeña / Instancia Nacional de Salud
(Suchitepéquez, Guatemala) |
| 2002-2003 |
Member / Project Responsible |
Technical-Operational Team. Pastoral de Salud de las
Verapaces / Instancia Nacional de Salud (Sacatepéquez, Guatemala) |
| 2001-2002 |
Coordinator of health teams / Ambulatory rural doctor |
FUNDEMI-Talita Kumi (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala) |
| Fall 2000 |
Research Assistant |
Study “Evaluation of the performance of the PAHO
technical assistance
in Cobán” – Pan American Health Organization (PAHO),
Decentralized
Technical Assistance (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala). |
| Organizational and volunteer |
| 2011 |
Volunteer |
President of the executive board, Community Council for
Barrio de San Nicolás 2, Mixco, Guatemala. |
| 2011 |
Volunteer |
Treasurer of the board of directors, Instituto de Salud
Incluyente – ISIS -, San Lucas Sacatepéquez,
Guatemala. |
| 2007 – 2008 |
Volunteer |
Seattle-King County Racial and Ethnic Approaches to
Community Health (REACH) Coalition. (Seattle, WA) |
| 1998-2000 |
School of Medicine Delegate |
University Students’ Association –
University of San Carlos (Guatemala) |
| 1998 |
Epidemiology elective practice |
Cuban Doctors Brigades, as par of the National Response
to Hurricane Mitch (Puerto San José, Escuintla, Guatemala) |
| 1994-2000 |
Multiple |
Medical Students’ Association – University
of San Carlos (Guatemala) |
| 1994-2000 |
Member |
Volunteer Committee of Medical Students (Guatemala) |
| 2010 |
Fellowship |
Social Science Research Council – International
Dissertation Research Fellowship |
| 2010 |
Grant |
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
– Dissertation Fieldwork Grant |
| 2009 |
Grant |
National Science Foundation – Research Experience
for Graduate Students
in Cultural Anthropology (supplementary to Professor Angelina
Godoy’s
NSF grant) |
| 2009 |
Grant |
Washington Global Health Alliance, Global Partnerships
Travel Grant – Pre-dissertation research fieldwork |
| 2009 |
Honorable Mention |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship Program |
| 2008 |
Honorable Mention |
National Science Foundation Graduate Research
Fellowship Program |
| 2008 |
Award |
University of Washington Center for Curriculum
Transformation – 2008
Seminar: Expanding Global Learning Opportunities of UW Undergraduates |
| 2000 |
Scholarship |
Distinguished student of the graduating class of 2000
– Scholarship for
studying the Master in Public Health. Granted by the Executive
Committee of the School of Medicine, University of San Carlos, Guatemala |
| 2000 |
Award |
Autonomía Universitaria Prize to highest
achieving student in the
graduating medical school class. Granted by the Superior University
Council of the University of San Carlos, Guatemala |
| Languages |
|
Spanish (first language), English
(TOEFL [Dec. 2006]: reading [28/30], listening [28/30], speaking
[22/30], writing [28/30]), K’iche’ (one of the Mayan
languages spoken in Guatemala, basic level) |
| Computational |
|
Microsoft Office suite, Epi Info,
Stata, Ucinet/NetDraw, Atlas.ti |
| Forthcoming |
Collaboration to magazine |
Cerón, Alejandro. “REDES: Social Network
Analysis”. Popular Anthropology Magazine 2(4). |
| Forthcoming |
Collaboration to magazine |
Cerón, Alejandro. “Eduardo
Menéndez, a Pioneer of Latin American Medical
Anthropology”. Popular Anthropology Magazine 2(3). |
| Forthcoming |
Collaboration to magazine |
Cerón, Alejandro. “The Central American
Anthropology Network”. Popular Anthropology Magazine 2(2). |
| 2011 |
Peer reviewed article |
Godoy, Angelina and Alejandro Cerón. “Drug
markets and access to medicines under new intellectual property
regimes: The view from Central America”. American Journal of
Public Health 101(7):1186-1191. |
| 2010 |
Peer reviewed article |
Cerón Alejandro. “Los caminos del enfermo
en una comunidad K’iche’ de Guatemala: una
contribución del análisis de redes al estudio de los
comportamientos de búsqueda de atención en salud”
(Illness trajectories in a Guatemalan
K’iche’ community: a
contribution of network analysis to the study of care seeking
behaviors). REDES: Revista hispana para el análisis de
redes
sociales, 18(2). |
| 2009 |
Peer reviewed article |
Cerón, Alejandro and Angelina Godoy.
“Intellectual property and access
to medicines: an analysis of legislation in Central America”.
World
Health Organization Bulletin, 87:787-793. |
| 2009 |
Collaboration to edited volume |
Cerón, Alejandro and Meredith Fort.
“A collective response to health
sector reform in Guatemala”. In: Daniel Perlman and Ananya
Roy
(editors). The practice of international health: a case-based
orientation. Oxford: Oxford Press. |
| 2008 |
Technical report |
Cerón, Alejandro and Patricia Cortés.
Prácticas poblacionales en salud:
implicaciones y oportunidades para el sistema de salud. (Population
health practices: implications and opportunities for the health
system). United Nations Development Program in Guatemala, as part of
the series “El sistema de salud en Guatemala: ¿hacia
dónde vamos?”
(Guatemalan health system: where are we going?). |
| 2004 |
Collaboration to edited volume |
Cerón, Alejandro; Das, Abhijit and Meredith
Fort. “The struggle for
people’s health” In: Fort, Meredith; Mercer, Mary Anne and
Oscar Gish
(ed). Sickness and wealth: the corporate assault on global
health.
Cambridge: South End Press. |
| 2004 |
Collaboration to edited volume |
Cerón, Alejandro. “Salud:
¿gasto o inversión?” (Health: expense or
investment?). In: Torres, Mauricio and Natalia Paredes (ed). Derecho a
la salud: situación en países de América Latina
(Right to health:
situation in Latin American countries). Plataforma Interamericana de
Derechos Humanos, Democracia y Desarrollo; Asociación
Latinoamericana
de Medicina Social. |
| 2003 |
Technical report |
Cerón, Alejandro and Leslie Ramírez.
Monitoreo del derecho a la salud
en Guatemala (Monitoring the right to health in Guatemala).
Guatemala:
Instancia Nacional de Salud |
| 2011 |
Paper |
Cerón, Alejandro. “A mysterious outbreak:
magic, science and religion in a Guatemalan town”. American
Anthropological Association annual meeting. December 2011. |
| 2011 |
Paper |
Villatoro, Elba and Alejandro Cerón. “The
Ajq’ijab’ of Guatemala: paranormal healing or the limits of
medical knowledge”. American Anthropological Association annual
meeting. December 2011. |
| 2010 |
Paper |
Cerón, Alejandro. “Epidemiological
knowledge and ideologies of social difference in Guatemala”.
Workshop on ‘The production of evidence’ at the 13th Berlin
Roundtables on Transnationality: Health Politics in an Interconnected
World. Irmgard Coninx Foundation, Social Science Research Center
Berlin, and Humboldt University Berlin. Berlin, 1-5 December 2010. |
| 2009 |
Paper |
“Public health ideologies
and the limits of right to health discourses in post-war
Guatemala.” American Anthropological Association annual meeting.
December 2009. |
| 2009 |
Poster |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Health care and everyday life in rural Guatemala.”
Society for Medical Anthropology Conference: Medical Anthropology at
the intersections: Celebrating 50 years of interdisciplinarity.
September 27, 2009.
|
| 2009 |
Paper |
Cerón, Alejandro. La
epidemiología sociocultural frente al reto de
“pluralizar al nativo”: autoatención en una
comunidad k’iche’ de
Guatemala. (Translation: Sociocultural epidemiology and the challenge
to “pluralize the native”: self care in a Guatemalan
K’iche’ community)
53rd International Conference of Americanists, in Mexico City, July
2009.
|
| 2009 |
Panel presentation |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Studying epidemiological practices in Guatemala.”
University of Washington Department of Anthropology Colloquium:
Anthropological Epistemologies Of Health and Healing. April 20th, 2009
|
| 2009 |
Paper |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Health care and everyday life in rural Guatemala.”
Breadth in Anthropological Research Conference. University of
Washington. April 17, 2009. |
| 2009 |
Panel presentation |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Graduate education: Experiences of studying at the
UW”. University of Washington Graduate School. January 30, 2009. |
| 2008 |
Panel presentation |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Private business/public health: How are
corporate-philanthropic alliances affecting access to medicines and
health?” Covering Global Health Conference. University of
Washington
Department of Communication. May 3, 2008. |
| 2008 |
Invited speaker |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Health and health care in Guatemala” Western
Washington University, Sociology Department, Global Health course.
April 28, 2008. |
| 2008 |
Panel presentation |
Cerón, Alejandro.
“Graduate education: Experiences of studying at the
UW and studying abroad”. University of Washington Graduate
School.
February 22, 2008. |
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