Grants
Submitted, Awarded
2008 Conservation International, Global Conservation Funds - Kue Tuvy Conservation and Health Management Plan $550,000
2008 Higher Education for Development, USAID: Collaborative Partnerships: Paraguay Collaborative Training in Epidemiology and Public Health $300,000
2008 Social Networks, Cooperation and Health. Late Lessons from Early History Funding Program, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University $300,000
2007 Conservation International, Global Conservation Funds - Kue Tuvy Conservation and Health Management Plan $120,000
2006 National Institutes of Health Pioneer Award, Nathan Wolfe, Ph.D., John Hopkins University Emerging Zoonotic Diseases. Pilot research on emerging zoonotic diseases in hunting and gathering populations of South America $1,550
2006 Follow-Up on a Tuberculosis Epidemic in an Immunologically Compromised Indigenous Population. the Wilhelm Rosenblatt and Edith Lenneberg Endowment for Tuberculosis (TB) and International Public Health $7,500
2006 Research Allocation Committee, University of New Mexico Host, pathogens and the re-emergence of tuberculosis in an immunologically compromised indigenous population of eastern Paraguay $4,400
2006 Conservation International, Global Conservation Funds - Kue Tuvy Conservation Management Plan $125,000
2005 Conservation International, Global Conservation Funds - Kue Tuvy Conservation Management Plan $73,000
2003 National Science Foundation - Dissertation Fellowship awarded to Alicia Wilbur, graduate student, Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico. Co-investigators: Anne Stone and Jane Buikstra $6,030
2003 Wenner Gren Foundation - Graduate Student Fellowship awarded to Paul James, Ecological and Ethnic Determinants of the Childhood Asthma $22,000
2003 National Institutes of Health - RO1, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay, Developmental Phase 2003-2004 $65,000
2003 Latin American and Iberian Institute. Lecture Series. Lecture / networking with Paraguayan health officials, Oscar Centurión, Director, Indian Affairs Bureau of Paraguay (INDI), Marité Bonfanti, Assistant to the Attorney General of Paraguay $400
2002 National Institutes of Health - RO1, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay, Developmental Phase 2002-2003 $65,000
2002 Latin American Institute/MERCOSUR Award, University of New Mexico, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay $1,200
2002 Foreign student recruitment award. Office of the President, University of New Mexico $3,000
2002 National Science Foundation, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay $12,500
2002 National Science Foundation, Research Supplement to Hurtado, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay, Paul James $4,500
2001 National Institutes of Health - RO1, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay, Developmental Phase 2001-2002 $65,000
2001 National Science Foundation, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay $12,500
2001 Large Research Allocation Committee Award, University of New Mexico, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay $7,500
2001 Latin American Institute/MERCOSUR Award, University of New Mexico, Health and Economic Productivity in Rural Paraguay $1,200
2001 MPH Program, Masters of Public Health, Lecture Series. Lecture / networking with Paraguayan health officials, Mario Carlos Gonzáles, M.D. $150
2001 Latin American and Iberian Institute. Lecture Series. Funding for Dr. Mario Gonzales' visit to UNM $300
1997 American Lung Association, Department of Pathology grant to Mary Lipscomb, M.D.. The absence of asthma among Ache indigenous groups $7,200
1997 Medical Relief to Ache Communities. University of Tennessee, International Health Program, Director, John McCall, Ph.D. $200
1997 Medical Relief Assistance to Ache communities. Hospital Bautista, Asuncion, Paraguay $300
1997 Medical Relief Project for Ache Indigenous communities. AVINA FOUNDATION $20,000
1997 National Science Foundation, Ecological Studies of Ache Foragers $148,000
1997-1998 National Science Foundation Dissertation Research Grant: Aché group size, Garnett MacMillan $12,000
1994 Research Allocation Committee Grant "Palm starch extraction among Ache foragers" $7,000
1994 Center for the Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. Invited Fellow.
1992-1995 Mexico MEDTEP Center for Ethnic Populations grant allocation (Three-year developmental grant award, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, National Institutes of Health), "Childhood asthma project", Principal Investigator: A. M.Hurtado $125,000
1990-1995 Five-year research training grant, Faculty Scholars Program, W.T. Grant Foundation "Maternal and Child Health Among Mexican Americans: Women's Work and Father Absence" $175,000
1988 National Science Foundation Research Grant:Women's Subsistence Strategies Among Cuiva (Hiwi) Hunter Gatherers of Venezuela $35,000
1988 Interamerican Foundation. Women's Subsistence Strategies Among Cuiva (Hiwi) Hunter Gatherers of Venezuela (declined)
1988 (with K. R. Hill) L.S.B. Leakey Hunter-Gatherer Research grant, Hiwi foragers of Southwestern Venezuela $8,000
1986 Cultural Survival Foundation Grant: Preliminary Study of the Cuiva land problem $2,000
1986 (with K. R. Hill) L.S.B. Leakey Foundation Hunter Gatherer Fellowship $10,000