Susan C. Scrimshaw
{{Short description|American medical anthropologist}}
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| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts
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| workplaces = Columbia University
University of California, Los Angeles
University of Illinois Chicago
Simmons University
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| alma_mater = Barnard College
Columbia University
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| known_for = Research on cultural factors affecting public health
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| field = Medical anthropology
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| prizes = Margaret Mead Award (1985)
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Susan Crosby Scrimshaw{{Cite journal |last1=Scrimshaw |first1=Susan C. |last2=Solomons |first2=Noel W. |date=March 2019 |title=Nevin Stewart Scrimshaw, MD, PhD, MPH, January 20, 1918, to February 8, 2013, Founder of the Food and Nutrition Bulletin : Two Perspectives |journal=Food and Nutrition Bulletin |language=en |volume=40 |issue=1 |pages=5–13 |doi=10.1177/0379572119833571 |pmid=30974981 |s2cid=109941357 |issn=0379-5721|doi-access=free }} is an American scholar of medical anthropology and university administrator. She served as president of Simmons University, The Sage Colleges, and dean of the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois Chicago.{{Cite web |title=Susan C. Scrimshaw (2006-2008) · Presidents@Simmons · Presidents@Simmons |url=https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/presidents/exhibits/show/presidents/scrimshaw |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=beatleyweb.simmons.edu}}
Biography
Scrimshaw was born in Boston in 1945 and was raised in Guatemala until she was 16. Her father was food scientist Nevin S. Scrimshaw, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology who chaired MIT's department of nutrition and food science. She earned her B.A. from Barnard College in Latin American studies and Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University, where she studied under Margaret Mead.{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Pam |title=10 Minutes with Susan Scrimshaw |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/print-edition/2012/08/03/10-minutes-with-susan-scrimshaw.html |access-date=August 20, 2022 |website=Albany Business Review}} She taught at Columbia University and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she served as associate and acting dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Her field of research is medial anthropology and she has focused on how gender, race, ethnicity, and culture affects public health practices.
Scrimshaw was named dean of the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Public Health in 1994, serving in that position until 2006, when she was named president of Simmons University.{{Cite web |title=Former SPH Dean Dr. Susan Scrimshaw Gives Back {{!}} School of Public Health {{!}} University of Illinois Chicago |url=https://publichealth.uic.edu/news-stories/former-sph-dean-dr-susan-scrimshaw-gives-back/ |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=publichealth.uic.edu |language=en-US}} She remained president until 2008. She later became president of The Sage Colleges before stepping down in 2017.{{Cite web |date=2022-05-11 |title=Scrimshaw, Susan |url=https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/author/susan-c-scrimshaw |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=SAGE Publications Inc |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Sage President Susan C. Scrimshaw to Step Down in June 2017 |url=https://capitalregionchamber.com/news/sage-president-susan-c-scrimshaw-step-june-2017/ |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=Capital Region Chamber |language=en-US}}
Scrimshaw is a member of the Institute Of Medicine, later known as the National Academy of Medicine. At the time of her election in 1993, she and her father became the first father/daughter pair to become members of the IOM.{{Cite web |date=2014-12-07 |title=Sage Colleges president gets career achievement award |url=https://www.troyrecord.com/news/sage-colleges-president-gets-career-achievement-award/article_d3eb941d-1c7b-5c4b-8da6-a058578b1bde.html |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=troyrecord |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Health and Culture |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/health-and-culture |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=Columbia Magazine |language=en}} She is also a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Anthropological Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, and past president of the Society for Medical Anthropology. She was the recipient of the 1985 Margaret Mead Award for her work on cultural factors affecting healthcare delivery.{{Cite web |title=Margaret Mead Award :: Society for Applied Anthropology |url=https://www.appliedanthro.org/about/awards-prizes/margaret-mead-award |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=www.appliedanthro.org}}{{Cite web |date=1985-12-26 |title=Westwood : Instructor Cited for Work |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-26-we-21631-story.html |access-date=2022-08-20 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}
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