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* '''Antonio Iaria''', is former director of the Psychiatric Hospital of Santa Maria della Pietà in Rome and has been responsible for the Transcultural Psychiatric Group, which also works in Rome. He has worked in Somalia for several years at the Faculty of Medicine of the Somali National University. He was co-founder, with Professor Grassivaro Gallo, of the Padua Working Group on FGM, University of Padua. Padua, Italy.
* '''Charles Geshekter''', {{PhD}}, Professor Emeritus of African history at California State University, Chico, earned his {{PhD}} in history from UCLA and received numerous grants for his African field research. His writings examine modern Somali history, techniques of documentary film making, and reappraising [[AIDS ]] in Africa. Geshekter established the Somali Studies International Association and coordinated its first conference in Mogadishu (1980). In 1985, he produced a PBS documentary, “The Parching Winds of Somalia” for WQED-TV. During the UN intervention in Somalia (1992-95), Geshekter was news analyst for CBS National Radio Network, KRON-TV/San Francisco, and PBS. Geshek-ter coordinated the program for the 1989 Meeting of the American Association for Advancement of Science/Pacific Division. From 1991-95, he chaired its History of Science Section and served on its Executive Council. In 1995-96, he was Chief Policy Advisor on Education Finance for the California State Assembly. He has served as a consultant and researcher on African immigration issues for the Department of Justice. Geshekter was a member of the South African Presidential [[AIDS ]] Advisory Panel (2000-03). Chico, California, USA.
* '''[[David Gisselquist]]''', {{PhD}}, received his degree in economics from Yale University, with experience in anthropology and rural development. He has published more than 20 medical journal articles on [[HIV]] in Africa and India. His history of unsafe health care and [[HIV]], ''Points to Consider: Responses to [[HIV]]/[[AIDS ]] in Africa, Asia,and the Caribbean'', is available from Adonis & Abbey, London, and also for free download on-line at: http://sites.google.com/site/davidgisselquist/pointstoconsider. He has traveled and worked in Africa and Asia and has assisted field research on [[HIV]] in India and Kenya. He co-edited a collection of country studies on injection practices, ''Pilot-Testing the WHO Tools to Assess and Evaluate Injection Practices'' (WHO, 2003), and has spoken at WHO and at international [[AIDS ]] conferences. He is an independent researcher and consultant. Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA.
* '''[[Leonard B. Glick]]''', {{MD}}, {{PhD}}, received his medical degree from the University of Maryland and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts, and the author of ''Abraham’s Heirs: Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe'', “Religion and Genocide,”in I.A. Charny 5(ed.), ''The Widening Circle of Genocide'' (1994), and ''Marked in Your Flesh: Circumcision from Ancient Judea to Modern America'' (2005). New Salem, Massachusetts, USA.
* '''[[B. Maurene White]]''', {{RN}}, graduated from Montreal General Hospital School of Nursing in 1962 and received a {{BTh}} in 1988, a {{DipEd}} in 1991, and a {{BA}} (medical anthropology) in 1997 from McGill University. She has worked in different areas of nursing, with special interest in perinatality and outpost work as a nurse practitioner in northern Canada. She currently does private case nursing, consulting, and has developed a health-tracking system as an iPhone and iPod application. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
* '''David Wilton''', {{JD}}, received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at El Paso and his law degree from the South Texas College of Law. He has a long-standing interest in issues of body integrity and [[HIV]]/[[AIDS]]. He blogs at Male Circumcision and [[HIV]] (www.circumcisionandhiv.com) while maintaining a full-time law practice specializing in criminal defense. His primary interests, outside of nurturing a debate on the controversial measure of removing sexual tissue to reduce the spread of [[HIV]], are in the areas of criminal justice, languages, and journalism. San Francisco, California, USA.
* '''[[Hugh Young]]''', BSc, is a retired broadcaster and editor with a science background. He has published two dictionaries, of Solomon Islands Pijin and New Zealand Maori place name pronunciation (oral, now online at ngaingoa.notlong.com). He has presented three papers at genital integrity symposia, on the rise and fall of circumcision in New Zealand (with Ken McGrath), on circumcision as a memeplex, and on the foreskin and circumcision in popular media, subsequently published. For more than 11 years he has maintained the Intactivism Pages, www.circumstitions.com, a pro-intact website. Pukerua Bay, New Zealand.
* The Evolution of Circumcision Methods ‑ Not “Just a Snip”
: ''Hugh Young''
* Dangerous Myths and Tragic Misconceptions: The Orthodox View of [[AIDS ]] in Africa
: ''Charles Geshekter''
* Stopping [[AIDS ]] in Africa
: ''David Gisselquist''
* Blogging Male Circumcision and [[HIV]]: Addressing the Establishment with Social Media