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She has worked with another Purdue professor, Sophie A Lelièvre, in Ghana to research cultural aspects of policy decisions related to breast health in many countries, including Ghana, Lebanon, France, Japan, and
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Her specialization is medical anthropology with a focus on culturally oriented issues, particularly in Africa and the Middle East. Much of her research occurred in Sudan between 1974 and 1979, 1998, 1992, and 2004. She also conducted research in Sierra Leone between 2007 and 2008. Gruenbaum's
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UNICEF in 2004, when she was able to conduct research and advocate social marketing for the involvement of girls in female genital cutting and circumcision. She also worked as a research consultant for CARE studying traditional health practices.
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research focuses on practices relating to female genital cutting (circumcision), women's health in rural
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to earn her M.A. in 1974 and her Ph.D. in 1982 in anthropology. Her doctoral thesis was "Health services, health, and development in Sudan : the impact of the Gezira irrigated scheme".
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