Susan C. Scrimshaw, PhD, was an editor and author for the first edition of this Handbook. She is a medical anthropologist who grew up in Guatemala and has worked globally, particularly in Latin America and with Latino and African American populations in the U.S. She was Dean of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health, and President of Russell Sage College. She was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 1993, and is a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association, the Society for Applied Anthropology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her awards include the Margaret Mead Award, the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, and a Hero of Public Health Gold Medal presented by former President Vicente Fox of Mexico. Her research includes community participatory research methods, combining qualitative and quantitative research, health disparities, pregnancy outcomes, health communication, and culturally appropriate delivery of health care.

Sandra D. Lane is Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of teaching excellence in of Public Health and Anthropology at Syracuse University and a Research Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Upstate Medical University. She received her Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the joint program at the University of California at San Francisco and Berkeley, and an M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research focuses on the impact of racial, ethnic and gender disadvantage on maternal, child, and family health in urban areas of the United States and the Middle East.

Robert A. Rubinstein, PhD, MsPH is a distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Professor of International Relations at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His medical anthropology work is on infectious eye disease, psychosocial epidemiology, health inequalities, and on integrating epidemiological and anthropological methods. His political anthropology research focuses on cross-cultural aspects of conflict and dispute resolution. He is an originator of the field of the anthropology of peacekeeping, in which he has conducted empirical research and policy studies. Rubinstein has collaborated with the International Peace Academy, the United Nations Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Internal Oversight Services, and the United States Army Peacekeeping Institute. His work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, the Edna McConnell Foundation, the US Institute of Peace, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, among others. He is the author or editor of 9 books and more than 100 journal articles and book chapters. He received the 2016 Victor Sidel and Barry Levy Award for Peace from the American Public Health Association, and the 2010 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Anticipatory Anthropology from the American Anthropological Association.

Julian Fisher is a policy advisor and analyst with focused expertise in lifelong learning, health workforce education, social and environmental determinants of health, and health in all policy approaches. Julian holds adjunct teaching positions; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine (SUNY Upstate Medical University, New York, USA), and School of Health Sciences and Public Health (University of Georgia, Tbilisi, Georgia). He is on the Board of Directors of the World Accelerated Medically Trained Clinicians Network. His work experience covers a diverse range of professional domains including international public health policy and advocacy (consultancies for UN agencies including WHO, UNESCO & UNEP), health profession (federation) management, health workforce undergraduate and post graduate education, both classroom and web based. His work has been based in geographical locations, including Europe, Africa (Tanzania, South Africa), Saudi Arabia, Falkland Islands and Antarctica within various sectors and organizations. Julian Fisher earned his BDS (Dentistry) from Birmingham University in 1985, a MSc (HIV/AIDS) from Stellenbosch University, South Africa in 2002, and a MIH (International Health) from Charité University, Berlin in 2006.