Ellen Foley
Research Assistant Professor

The George Perkins Marsh Institute
Clark University
Worcester, MA 01610-1477
508.421.3815 phone
email: efoley@clarku.edu

Current Research Interests

Ellen Foley is a medical anthropologist who focuses on health policy, health sector reform, and gender and health issues in West Africa and among African immigrants and refugees in the United States. She is currently finishing a book-length manuscript that examines the gendered effects of neoliberal development policies and health sector reform in Senegal, with a focus on the micropolitics of family health in rural and urban communities.

Foley received $61,000 from the Central Massachusetts Health Foundation for an action research project called "Bridging Barriers: Meeting Youth Immigrant and Refugee Health Needs in Worcester, Ma." She also received a second year of funding from the Massachusetts Executive Office of Public Safety and Security on Action Research to Prevent and Reduce Youth and Gang Violence in Worcester, MA with Laurie Ross and Greg Paskach (CDP/MA '08) as part of a cross disciplinary collaboration within the IDCE department.