With the impending change in immigration policies and enforcement promised to come with the new Presidential transition team on immigration, my article in 2013 Human Organization explains how media coverage is manipulated to serve business interests on this hot button issue.

Luque, J; Bowers, A; Kabore, A; Stewart, R. (2013) Who Will Pick Georgia’s Vidalia Onions? A Text-Driven Content Analysis of Newspaper Coverage on Georgia’s 2011 Immigration Law. Human Organization, 72(1):31-43.
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Second Opinion November 2016 Newsletter

http://www.medanthro.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Second-Opinion_Nov2016.pdf

MEDICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY MENTORING!

SMA-SPA Speed-Mentoring Reception at AAA

The e-zine, Safe World for Women highlighted the work we did with the Salud es Vida cervical cancer education program in Georgia. If you haven’t checked out the outcomes article in Journal of Cancer Education, please click on the Publications tab.

http://www.asafeworldforwomen.org/

Check out the March 2016 issue of the SMA newsletter Second Opinion. I put together a photoessay titled, “Cervical Cancer Screening in Peru’s Cusco Region.”

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Some mountain in Peru

Some new articles from our NIH-funded studies have been published recently. Check the publications tab for updates! Here is a picture of a Quiquijana, Peru women’s ego network that will be presented at the upcoming SfAA/SMA meetings in Vancouver, Canada next month.

For complete information visit:

https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/community-health/project-examples/879

Salud es Vida Cervical Cancer Education

Dr. Luque represented MUSC Public Health and Hollings Cancer Center with poster presentations at national professional meetings. Atlanta was chilly and Denver was snowy, but it was great to catch up with friends and colleagues at the meetings. He gave important updates at the SMA board meeting about the more than 40 SMA panel sessions for the SfAA meetings in Vancouver, CA (March 29-April 2, 2016). Also, he found out from Chad Morris that the book chapter is coming out. See citations below…

Luque, J; Alfonso, M; Tarasenko, Y. Addressing Obesity and Associated Medical Conditions in Latino Immigrant Communities in Southeast Georgia (2015). In The Applied Anthropology of Obesity: Prevention, Intervention and Identity, Chad T. Morris and Alexandra G. DeLaricheliere, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, pp. 91-106.

Luque, J; Maupin, J. “Screen and Treat Cervical Cancer Campaign in the Peruvian Andes: Views from Patients and Healthcare Workers,” poster presented at American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (November, 2015), Denver, CO.

Luque, J; Tarasenko, Y; Alfonso, M; Reyes-Garcia, C; Rebing, L; Ferris, D. “Efficacy Study of a Group-based Promotora Intervention to Increase Cervical Cancer Screening among Immigrant Latina Women,” poster presented at the 8^th AACR Conference on the Science of Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved (November, 2015), Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Luque has been selected to lead the Hollings Cancer Center Cancer Control Journal Club. The journal club meets the first Thurday of the month in HCC 121. Dr. Luque will present “Increasing Cervical Cancer Screening in the United States-Mexico Border Region” by Thompson, B. et al. on Thursday September 3 at 12 noon. Lunch is provided.

Article Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183147/

Dr. Luque has accepted an offer to be an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. His new appointment begins in August this year. He made the recent announcement via his twitter account @drluque. Luque said he looks forward to the challenges of developing community-based interventions to increase access to cancer screening among underserved populations in the Southeast U.S. and in Latin America. Luque expressed his willingness to continue to collaborate with his former colleagues at Georgia Southern on both ongoing and future research projects.