Eric J. Bailey
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About Me
Eric J. Bailey, Ph.D., M.P.H. is a cultural and medical anthropologist, professor, author and Director of the Ethnic and Rural Health Disparities (ERHD) Graduate Certificate Online Program at East Carolina University in the Departments of Public Health and Anthropology. At East Carolina University, Dr. Bailey teaches undergraduate courses in the Department of Anthropology and graduate courses in the Department of Public Health. He is a joint-appointed Full Professor at ECU. For the ERHD Graduate Certificate Online program, Dr. Bailey teaches all the ERHD courses.
Before his arrival at East Carolina University, Dr. Bailey was a Program Director for the Masters’ of Public Health Program in Urban Public Health at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (Los Angeles, CA). Dr. Bailey developed and organized the new Masters’ of Public Health Program in Urban Public Health at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (2004-2005).
Before his arrival at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science, Dr. Bailey was Health Scientist Administrator and Program Director at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD). He administered, organized and coordinated the major Minority-Serving Institution Annual and Performance Reports to the White House for the Center. Before his arrival at the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD), Dr. Bailey was a Program Director for the Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Branch (CMBB) at the National Cancer Institute, NIH (1999-2004).
Before his arrival at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Bailey spent one year as a Senior Research Associate at the Arkansas Cancer Research Center (ACRC) of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (Little Rock, AR). He provided his expertise on several grant projects addressing the multicultural and multiethnic cancer outreach initiatives specifically for African American women and men in the state of Arkansas (1998-1999).
Dr. Bailey was also an Associate (tenured) and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University, Indianapolis for nine years and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Houston for two years. Dr. Bailey received his doctorate in anthropology from Wayne State University (Detroit, MI) and Master’s in Public Health from Emory University (Atlanta, GA). Dr. Bailey also received degrees (B.A. and M.A.) in anthropology from Miami University (Oxford, OH). In addition to Dr. Bailey’s experience in public health and as a medical anthropologist, Dr. Bailey completed post-doctoral work at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, GA) where he worked in the Tuberculosis Division and the Associate Director’s Office for Minority Health (1993-1995).
Dr. Bailey has broad-based research experience in several chronic diseases including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, prenatal care, cancer, alternative medicine, HIV/AIDS and has published research findings in scholarly journals and lectured for the past 30 years on issues related to medical anthropology, multicultural and multiethnic health care utilization, alternative medicine, and community health and cross cultural health programs.
Currently, Dr. Bailey has published eight scholarly books. Here is a brief overview of his books:
Dr. Bailey’s (2018) most recent book, “Race and Ethnic Relations on Campus: Understanding, Empowerment, and Solutions for College Students,” confronts commonplace race relations issues directly and sets forth a completely different way of addressing these problems that empowers today’s college students to take charge and start to effect change – to do something about racially charged conflict rather than to simply talk about it.
Dr. Bailey’s (2013) “The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States” book examined multiracial families in America, at interracial relationships, at rural and urban multiracial populations, and at multiracial physical features, health disparities, bone and marrow transplant issues, adoption matters, as well as multiracial issues in other countries.
Dr. Bailey’s (2010), “The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans” book took an in-depth look at the Obama administration’s proposed initiatives as they relate to the African American community and a survey of civil rights issues that need to be reexamined in light of Obama’s election.
Dr. Bailey’s (2008), “Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness and other Industries” book explained the major reasons why African Americans have a particular preference for certain body images, body types and standard of beauty as well as to show how much each of these areas have changed mainstream America’s preferred standards as it relates to body images, body types and beauty.
Dr. Bailey’s (2006), “Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet” book was a ground-breaking book which offered a new “cultural” diet for African Americans and a prescription for working collectively not only to understand this critical health issue but also established a lifestyle strategy that will be both effective and manageable.
Dr. Bailey’s (2002), “African American Alternative Medicine: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases” book rediscovered the unique preventing and healing qualities of African American alternative medicine. It is teaching text and resource guide for students, health care professionals, health care researchers, health care policy makers, and the general public that examines alternative medical belief systems and practices from an African American perspective.
Dr. Bailey’s (2000), “Medical Anthropology and African American Health” book examined data on mortality, census, preventive health, alternative medical practices, clinical research, and intervention from a comprehensive perspective. His new approach emphasized culture and cultural relativism as they both related to African American health care issues. This book also included several of his applied medical anthropological fieldwork projects conducted in clinical, community, and public health settings in different cities in the United States.
Dr. Bailey’s (1991), “Urban African American Health Care” first book suggested that research on the relationship between cultural health beliefs and health seeking may assist in explaining the patterns of health care for some populations. This book highlighted his applied medical anthropological fieldwork project in Detroit, Michigan.
Dr. Bailey’s professional blog: Eric Bailey | LinkedIn
Dr. Bailey’s Course Happenings blog at ECU: Course Happenings
Dr. Bailey’s Published Books: Bloomsbury | Eric Bailey
Selected Publications
Books
Bailey, Eric (2013). The New Face of America: How the Emerging Multiracial, Multiethnic Majority is Changing the United States. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers (scheduled for publication).
Bailey, Eric (2010). The Cultural Rights Movement: Fulfilling the Promise of Civil Rights for African Americans. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Publishers.
Bailey, Eric (2008). Black America, Body Beautiful: How the African American Image is Changing Fashion, Fitness, and Other Industries. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Bailey, Eric (2006). Food Choice and Obesity in Black America: Creating a New Cultural Diet. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Bailey, Eric (2002). Alternative Medicine and African American Health: Using Alternative Medicine to Prevent and Control Chronic Diseases. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers.
Bailey, Eric (2000). Medical Anthropology and African American Health. Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.
Bailey, Eric (1991). Urban African American Health Care. New York: University Press of America.
Book Chapters
Bailey, Eric and Jacqueline Watson (2004). Complementary and Alternative Health Practices in the Black Community: Existing and Emergent Trends in the Praeger Handbook of Black American Health (2ndEdition): Policies and Issues Behind Disparities in Health.(Ed.) Ivor Livingston. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, Pgs: 627-637.
Bailey, Eric (2004) African Americans in the Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology: Health and Illness in the World’s Cultures. Volume I and II.(Eds) Carol R. Ember and Melvin Ember. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Published in conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files at Yale University. Pgs: 545-557.
Journal articles
Bailey, Eric et al. 2000. Increasing Mammography Utilization among African American Women: A Cultural Approach. Journal of the National Medical Association92: 136-142.
Bailey, Eric. 1994. The Health Care Status of African Americans in Indianapolis. Journal of the National Medical Association86: 853-856.
Bailey, Eric. 1994. The Medical Anthropologist as Health Department Consultant. Practicing Anthropology16:1:13-15.
Bailey, Eric. 1991. Hypertension: An Ethnomedical Analysis of Detroit African American Treatment Patterns. Human Organization50:287-296.
Bailey, Eric. 1991. Community Health Screening Programs for African Americans and the Medical Anthropologist. Social Science & Medicine32:1269-1274.