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Roseanne Schuster

Roseanne Schuster

Assistant Research Scientist, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

roseanne.schuster@asu.edu

480-727-0490

School of Human Evolution and Social Change
Arizona State University
PO Box 872402
Tempe, AZ 85287-2402

Titles

  • Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
  • Assistant Research Scientist, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
  • Director, MEL Innovation and Practice, Global Impact Collaboratory

Biography

Roseanne Schuster is a global nutrition and public health professional dedicated to increasing the impact of research and programming through innovative, cost-effective, and culturally responsive monitoring, evaluation, and learning. She has a decade of experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs seeking to improve health and environmental and social wellbeing. Schuster engages community-based, participatory, and implementation science approaches in interventions and evaluations to ensure programs are ultimately responsive to target populations and adaptive to the complex systems in which they operate.

Schuster's research focuses on how to improve delivery of critical health services in low-resource settings, uptake of health care among vulnerable populations, and understanding of how food and water insecurity shape infant and young child feeding and growth. She has led interventions, evaluations, and indicator development activities in multiple countries, with long-term expertise in Mozambique and sub-Saharan Africa. Her research has been sponsored by USAID, US State Department, and DFID.

Education

  • PhD, International Nutrition, Cornell University, 2016
  • MSc, Community Health Sciences, University of Northern British Columbia, 2010
  • BS, Biology, Canisius College, 2007

Expertise

External Links

Journal Articles

2019

Brewis, A., A. Wutich, M. V. du Bray, J. Maupin, R. C. Schuster and M. M. Gervais. 2019. Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions. Social Science & Medicine 220(Jan):12-21. DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.10.020. (link )

Sabatini, F., M. D. Ulian, I. Perez, J. Pinto, A. Vessoni, L. Aburad, F. B. Benatti, P. Lopez de Campos-Ferraz, D. Coelho, P. de Moars Sato, O. J. Roble, R. Fernandez Unsain, R. C. Schuster, B. Gualano and F. B. Scagliusi. 2019. Eating pleasure in a sample of obese Brazilian women: A qualitative report of an interdiscipiinary intervention based on the health at every size approach. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 119(9):1470-1482. DOI: 10.1016/j.jand.2019.01.006. (link )

Schuster, R. C., A. Brewis, P. Ochandarena, A. Abdelmonem, S. Hoso and K. Faqeeh. 2019. Measuring community norms around women's empowerment in the West Bank: Opportunities and challenges of a novel approach using cultural consensus. SSM - Population Health 9(Dec):100489. DOI: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2019.100489. (link )

Schuster, R. C., M. S. Butler, A. Y. Wutich, J. D. Miller and S. L. Young. 2019. “If there is no water, we cannot feed our children”: The far-reaching consequences of water insecurity on infant feeding practices and infant health across 16 low- and middle-income countries. Am J Hum Biol. 32(e23357):1-24. DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.23357.

Schuster, R. C., E. M. Rodriguez, M. Blosser, A. Mongo, N. Delvecchio-Hitchcock, L. Kahn and L. Tumiel-Berhalter. 2019. “They were just waiting to die”: Somali Bantu and Karen experiences with cancer screening pre- and post-resettlement in Buffalo, NY. Journal of the National Medical Association 111(3):234-245. DOI: 10.1016/j.jnma.2018.10.006. (link )

Schuster, R. C., M. Szpak, . , K. Sklar and K. L. Dickin. 2019. “I try, I do”: Child feeding practices of motivated, low-income parents reflect trade-offs between psychosocial- and nutrition-oriented goals. Appetite 136(May):114-123. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2019.01.005. (link )

Stoler, J., A. Brewis, L. M. Harris, A. Wutich, A. L. Pearson, A. Y. Rosinger, R. C. Schuster and S. L. Young. 2019. Household water sharing: a missing link in international health. International Health 11(3):163-165. DOI: 10.1093/inthealth/ihy094. (link )

Young, S. L., S. M. Collins, G. O. Boateng, T. B. Neilands, Z. Jamaluddine, J. D. Miller, A. A. Brewis, E. A. Frongillo, W. Jepson, H. Melgar-Quinonez, R. C. Schuster, J. Stoler and A. Y. Wutich. 2019. Development and validation protocol for an instrument to measure household water insecurity across cultures and ecologies: the Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale. BMJ Open 9(e023558):. DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023558.

2018

Chesoli, R. N., R. C. Schuster, S. Okelo and M. O. Omotayo. 2018. Strengthening care delivery in primary care facilities: Perspectives of facility managers on the immunization program in Kenya. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 7(12):1130-1137. DOI: 10.15171/ijhpm.2018.83. (link )

Schuster, R. C., O. de Sousa, A. Reme, C. Vopelak, D. L. Pelletier, L. M. Johnson, M. Mbuya, D. Pinault and S. L. Young. 2018. Performance-based financing empowers health workers delivering prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services and decreases desire to leave in Mozambique. International Journal of Health Policy and Management 7(7):630-644. DOI: 10.15171/IJHPM.2017.137. (link )

Schuster, R. C., S. Han, A. A. Brewis and A. Wutich. 2018. Increasing overweight and obesity erodes engagement in one's neighborhood by women, but not men. Preventative Medicine Reports 10(Jun):144-149. DOI: 10.1016/j.pmedr.2018.02.013. (link )

Wutich, A., J. Budds, W. Jepson, L. M. Harris, E. Adams, A. A. Brewis, L. Cronk, C. DeMyers, K. Maes, T. Marley, J. Miller, A. Pearson, A. Y. Rosinger, R. C. Schuster, J. Stoler, C. Staddon, P. Wiessner, C. Workman and S. Young. 2018. Household water sharing: A review of water gifts, exchanges, and transfers across cultures. WIREs Water 5(6):e1309. DOI: 10.1002/wat2.1309. (link )

2016

Schuster, R. C., O. de Sousa, J. Rivera, R. Olson, D. Pinault and S. L. Young. 2016. Performance-based incentives may be appropriate to address challenges to delivery of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services in rural Mozambique: A qualitative investigation. Human Resoures for Health 14:Art 60. DOI: 10.1186/s12960-016-0157-0. (link )

Schuster, R. C., D. E. McMahon and S. L. Young. 2016. A comprehensive review of the barriers and promoters health workers experience in delivering prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS Care 28(6):778-794. DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1139041. (link )

2013

Kahn, L. S., B. M. Vest, R. Karl, L. Tumiel-Berhalter, R. Taylor, R. C. Schuster, K. Glaser, A. Danakas and C. H. Fox. 2013. Living with diabetes on Buffalo, New York’s culturally diverse West Side. Chronic Illness 9(1):43-56. DOI: 10.1177/1742395312450895. (link )

Vest, B. M., L. S. Kahn, A. Danzo, L. Tumiel-Berhalter, R. C. Schuster, R. Karl, R. Taylor, K. Glaser, A. Danakas and C. H. Fox. 2013. Diabetes self-management in a low-income population: Impacts of social support and relationships with the health care system. Chronic Illness 9(2):145-155. DOI: 10.1177/1742395313475674. (link )

2011

Schuster, R. C., M. Gamberg, C. Dickson and H. C. . 2011. Assessing risk of mercury exposure and nutritional benefits of consumption of caribou (Rangifer tarandus) in the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation community of Old Crow, Yukon, Canada. Environmental Research 111(6):881-887. DOI: 10.1016/j.envres.2011.05.025. (link )

Schuster, R. C., E. E. Wein, C. Dickson and H. C. . 2011. Importance of traditional foods for the food security of two First Nations communities in the Yukon, Canada. Inernational Journal of Circumpolar Health 70(3):286-300. DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v70i3.17833. (link )

Wesche, S., R. C. Schuster, P. Tobin, C. Dickson, D. Matthiessen, S. Graupie, M. Williams and H. C. . 2011. Community-based health research led by the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation. International Journal of Circumpolar Health 70(4):396-406. DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v70i4.17846. (link )

Posters

2019

Kibuka Musoke, P., A. A. Brewis, A. Y. Wutich, M. du Bray, J. Maupin, R. C. Schuster and M. M. Gervais. 2019. Community hygiene norm violators are consistently stigmatized: Evidence from four global sites and implications for sanitation interventions. Poster presented at the 21st Annual CAP LTER All Scientists Meeting and Poster Symposium, January 11, 2019, Skysong, Scottsdale, AZ. (link )