Nora Groce, Ph.D.
Associate Professor,
Division of Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Social and Behavioral Sciences Program
Dr. Groce is a medical anthropologist, interested in the area of global health and international development with particular emphasis on cross-cultural systems of health care and health as human rights issues. Her research interests include issues of disability in international health and development, violence as a global public health problem and equity in access to health care in ethnic and minority communities.
Dr. Groce serves as faculty advisor to the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF)/Students Campaign for Child Survival: Physicians for Human Rights and serves regularly as an advisor to United Nations (UN) agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and a number of non-governmental organizations.
Education
Ph.D. in Medical and Socio-Cultural Anthropology, Brown University, 1983
M.A., Brown University, 1976
Professional Services
Advisor, Handicap International – African Campaign on Disability and HIV/AIDS, 2007-present
Chair, Thematic Group on Violence against Disabled Children, UNICEF, 2006
Director, Yale/World Bank Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability, 2002-present
Member, International Watch: Ad Hoc Group on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability, United States National Council on Disability, 1999-present
UN Secretariat, Convention on the Rights of the Disabled
Current Research Projects
Disability and HIV/AIDS Knowledge among Disabled Populations (and the Yale/World Bank Global Survey on HIV/AIDS and Disability); World Bank Health Systems Assessment Project; Violence against Disabled Children; and  HIV/AIDS Education in Indigenous Communities: Rites of Passage
Yale Affiliations
Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology
Adjunct Professor, Institute for Social and Policy Studies
Director, Yale/World Health Organization Collaborating Centre
Co-Chair, Disability and Bioethics Group, Institute for Social and Policy Studies and the Schell Center for Human Rights at the Yale Law School.
Member, Trumbull College
Selected Publications
Groce, N. Violence Against Disabled Children. Report for UNICEF & United Nations Secretary General’s Office. Thematic Group Report for the United Nations’ Secretary General’s Report: Violence Against Children 2006.
Groce, N., MacNamara, M., and Mawar, R. Inclusion of HIV/AIDS Messages in Indigenous ‘Rite of Passage’ Ceremonies: Reaching Young People in Tribal Communities. Culture, Health and Sexuality 8(4): 303-315, 2006.
Groce, N., Yousafzai, A., Zalud, S., and Wirz, S. HIV/AIDS and Disability: A Pilot Survey of HIV/AIDS Knoweldge among a Deaf Population in Swaziland. Disability and Rehabiliation 29(4): 319-325, 2006.
Groce, N. HIV/AIDS and Disability: Findings from the World Bank/Yale Global Survey. Health and Human Rights 8(2): 215-224, 2005.
Groce, N. A Population at Risk: HIV/AIDS and Disability: Capturing Hidden Voices. Findings of the Yale/World Bank Global Survey of HIV/AIDS and Disability. Washington, DC: The World Bank. December, 2004.
Groce, N. Disabled Adolescents: Rethinking Current and Future Approaches. The Asia Pacific Journal of Disability and Rehabilitation 15(2): 42-63, 2004.
Groce, N. and Trasi, R. The Myth of Virgin Rape and the Disabled: An Undocumented Epidemic. The Lancet 363: 1663-1664, 2004.
Groce, N. Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 12th Printing, 2004.
For a further list of Dr. Groce's publications, please see PubMed.
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