Edward C. Green

Edward C. Green (Ted) is a retired American medical anthropologist, who has served as a senior research scientist at the Harvard School of Public Health at Harvard University. He was also senior research scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies later becoming its director of the AIDS Prevention Project. He is currenly Research Professor at George Washington University. Green was appointed a member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (2003-2007) and served in the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council for the US-based National Institutes of Health (2003-2006).

Prior to his retirement, Green was not only a pioneer in the field of anthropological research on Africa’s indigenous healers, but he’s also considered a maverick in developing public health programs based on collaboration between African indigenous healers and western-styled biomedical personnel. He has guided such programs in Mozambique, Swaziland, South Africa and Nigeria. He was also a very visible, outspoken critic of the "condoms-mostly" approach to AIDS prevention prior to the development of "treatment as prevention" in Africa, instead arguing for an indigenous approach to HIV prevention that arose in Uganda and focused on behavior change--especially reducing the number of concurrent sexual partners. Dr Green has been asked to testify in Congress 5 times and he has served on multiple boards of nonprofit organizations. His fieldwork notes, photographs, and tape recordings from his work with the Suriname Maroons, and also from work in several other cultures and countries, have been archived at the Smithsonian's National Anthropological Archives, near Washington DC. He was profiled in Forbes Magazine in 2009. His most recent book (not yet on this page) is On The Fringe: Confessions of a Maverick anthropologist.