[Okgrantsmanship] Krista Schumacher won a prestigious award for her master's thesis

[Mason, Linda]

Society for Medical Anthropology Awards Graduate Student Prize to
Oklahoman

 

November 15, 2007 - Q2 Consulting, LLC, a research and evaluation firm
in Tulsa, has announced that Research Associate/Ethnographer Krista
Schumacher was named the recipient of the 2007 Rudolf Virchow Graduate
Student Award.  The Virchow awards are given by the Critical
Anthropology for Health Caucus, a special interest group of the national
Society for Medical Anthropology.  Awards are presented for
professional, graduate, and undergraduate work that best reflects,
extends or advances "critical perspectives in medical anthropology." 

 

 

 

 

 

Critical medical anthropology considers the sociopolitical and
socioeconomic factors of health.  Past Virchow awards have gone to
students from universities such as Harvard, Emory, and Rice.
Schumacher's paper, "Beyond Cultural Competency: An Analysis of Key
Variables Affecting Diabetes Care among Patients at an Urban Indian
Health Clinic" examines the influences of culture and socioeconomic
status on diabetes self-care.  Research was conducted at Indian Health
Care Resource Center in Tulsa.

 

Schumacher holds a master's degree in liberal studies, emphasis
anthropology, from the University of Oklahoma and a baccalaureate degree
in journalism, emphasis public relations, from Oklahoma State
University, where she wrote for The Daily O'Collegian student newspaper.


She is a professional evaluator and grant writer and teaches grant
writing throughout Oklahoma.  An Oklahoma City native, she currently
resides in Mannford.

 

Q2 Consulting, LLC has provided research and evaluation services to
nonprofits throughout Oklahoma for 10 years.  The firm offers
quantitative and qualitative outcomes measurement for grant-funded
programs, with a specialization in projects funded by the U.S. Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).  For more
information, contact Q2 Consulting at 918-814-0809. 

 

 
Linda Mason, Ed.D.
Coordinator for Grants and 
External Funding Assistance
Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education
655 Research Parkway, Suite 200
Oklahoma City, OK 73104
405-225-9486
800-858-1840
405-225-9230 Fax
lmason at osrhe.edu
web: www.okhighered.org/grant-opps/
IP: 164.58.250.178 (on 24hr/7days/wk)
 
 
 

 

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