Carl Kendall

Professor - Global Community Health and Behavioral Sciences

School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
  • General Latin America
  • North America

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 12

Research

Brazil; Haiti; Medical Anthropology; Monitoring and Evaluation; Research Methods; Health Disparities; HIV/AIDS; mosquito borne diseases, COVID-19, Leprosy

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of Rochester, Anthropology, 1974
  • M.A., University of Rochester, Anthropology
  • B.A., Swarthmore College, Anthropology, 1969

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane University, 1994-
  • Professor, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 1998-2000
  • Visiting Professor, Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil, 2014-
  • Senior Professor, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq), 2006-
  • Professor, Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, 1976-1979

Distinctions

  • Named to Northeast (Brazil) Governor’s Consortium for COVID-19, sub-group on Epidemiology
  • Senior Professor, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnológico (CNPq), 2006-current
  • Fulbright Senior Fellow (Brazil), 2006-current
  • Co-PI, Prevalence of HIV infection, syphilis and viral hepatitis and associated factors among adolescents in Brazil, 2019-current
  • Co-PI, Zika in Fortaleza: responses in a cohort of women 15-39 years old, 2017-current, both funded by CNPq

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese

Overseas Experience

  • Honduras
  • Guatemala
  • Peru
  • Bolivia
  • Colombia
  • Mexico
  • Dominican Republic
  • Brazil

Related Experience

  • Field Work (Brazil), FIOCRUZ, Family Health Strategy of Ceara, 2016
  • Field Work (Brazil), Department of Science and Tecnology (DECIT), ‘Mais Médicos' (More Physicians) Program in Rural Settlements, 2015
  • Field Work (Brazil), UNESCO, RDS among MSM in 12 cities in Brazil, 2015
  • Principal Investigator, Tulane-Federal University of Ceará Ciencias sêm Fronteiras, “Inquérito Nacional de Saúde na População Penitenciária Feminina e de Servidoras Prisonais”
  • CAPES/CNPq Senior Researcher
  • Consultant, Brazil National AIDS Program, 1998, 2002-
  • Founder and Co-Director, Center for Global Health Equity, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, 2007-
  • External Examiner, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Faculdade de Medicina, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ciências Médicas, 2007-
  • Consultant, HIV/AIDS Guatemala Strategy, USAID, Guatemala, 2002
  • Consultant, WHO/UNICEF Inter-Agency Task Team on Young People Meeting, Switzerland, 2002
  • Head of Unit, Maternal and Child Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Medicine, 1997-2000

Selected Publications

  • 2023. Carneiro, A. M. F., Rodrigues, Y. C., Dolabela, M. F., Lima, L., Guimaraes, R., Kendall, C., . . . Lima, K. V. B. (2023). Social Experiences...among Men Who Have Sex with Men... Healthcare (Basel), 11(7). doi:10.3390/healthcare11070964
  • 2023. Kendall, C., Ellery, A. E. L., Carneiro Junior, N., da Silva Santana, R., Cruz, L. N., Cohen, M., . . . Kerr, L. (2023). Reports from the frontline...COVID-19 risks and fears... BMC Health Serv Res, 23(1), 276. doi:10.1186/s12913-023-09118-y
  • 2023. Kerr, L., Smith, D. G., Kendall, C., Leal, M., Maia Macena, R. H., Mota, R. M. S., & de Almeida, R. L. F. (2023). HIV testing inside Brazilian female prisons: results of a national survey. AIDS Care, 35(6), 841-849.
  • 2022. Kendall, C., Kerr, L., Miranda, J. G. V., Rubin de Pinho, S. T., Silva Andrade, R. F., Rodrigues, L. C....Barreto, M. L. (2022). A...study of leprosy transmission... Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg, 116(2),100-107. doi:10.1093/trstmh/trab071
  • 2019. Kendall, C., Kerr, L., Mota, R. S., Guimaraes, M. D. C., Leal, A. F., Merchan-Hamann, E.,...Grazina Johnston, L. (2019). The 12 city HIV Surveillance Survey among MSM in Brazil 2016...Rev Bras Epidemiol, 22, e190004. doi:10.1590/1980-549720190004
  • 2005. Kendall, C. (2005). Waste not, want not: grounded globalization and global lessons for water use from Lima, Peru. In L. Whiteford & S. Whiteford (Eds.), Globalization, water & health: resource management in times of scarcity (pp. 85-105).