Jennifer Staple
Jennifer Staple-Clark completed her undergraduate degrees in biology and anthropology. During her undergraduate career she created a unique course on the anthropology of vision and eyeglasses, with Barney Bate. She studied “classics in ethnography” with Rebecca, and wrote an honors thesis about a leprosy settlement in Hawaii, and their particular history of collective organization for basic social and medical needs. That paper won the undergraduate prize from the Society for Medical Anthropology for that year. Also during her undergrad career, Jennifer founded Unite For Sight®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to care. As Nicholas Kristof put it on January 27,2008, Unite For Sight has rapidly “ballooned” in scope: it entails chapters in North America, international eye care programs, and an annual global health conference. Unite For Sight has trained more than 6,700 fellows to date who work in their local communities and abroad to provide eye health programs for those without previous access and has provided eye care services to more than 900,000 people worldwide. It embodies what MD/Anthropologist Jim Yong Kim, former WHO director for HIV, calls “bridging the gap in implementation of Global Health.”
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