International Health Humanities Network Membership

Marlaine Gray, PhD (c)
Marlaine is a medical anthropologist interested in the intersection between art making, medicine, healing, and medical decision making.  Her current research project examines the institutional logics that underlie the use of patient art programming in US Medical Institutions.

She is also interested in discussions around end of life care, medical decision making and chroic or terminal illness, alternative palliative care and chronic pain management, patient art programming, medical humanities, children’s health, and conceptions of care. 

In addition, she has conducted research in Kenya and Mozambique on HIV/AIDS education, girls education, youth health outreach, maternal and child health, and childhood vaccination and malnutrition.  Marlaine was a Peace Corps volunteer in Mozambique from 2003-2005, and has a deep interest in the connection between health and education initiatives.  She instructs classes in ethnographic research methods and  social science writing and children’s health at the University of Washington.  She is a PhD candidate in the department of anthropology the University of Washington, holds a Masters in International Education Policy from the University of Maryland, and earned a BA in English and Alternative Journalism from Colorado College