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Sarah Eichberg, Ph.D.
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Sarah Eichberg, Ph.D.
Dr. Sarah Eichberg is the project director for Vital Signs. A sociologist with a background in gender studies and public health, Dr. Eichberg brings experience in academic research, policy and evaluation and community outreach.
From 2000–2003, Dr. Eichberg was a postgraduate fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics studying competing constructions of the genetically modified food debate. As part of an interdisciplinary team, she helped facilitate stakeholder dialogues on genetic engineering and drafted codes of ethics for businesses and other private organizations in the biotechnology field.
While in graduate school, Dr. Eichberg was awarded an American Association for the Advancement of Science Media Fellowship and worked as a health and science and metro reporter for the Detroit Free Press. Dr. Eichberg's dissertation examined the motivations and surgical outcomes for male and female facial aesthetic surgery patients and traced surgeons' and psychiatrists' changing definitions of beauty, identity and mental health over the course of the 20th century.
Dr. Eichberg has extensive teaching and curriculum development experience. In addition to teaching undergraduates at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Eichberg was a Princeton in Asia Fellow, teaching English and American Studies at the Dalian University of Technology in the People's Republic of China from 1989-1990.
Dr. Eichberg has consulted for several public and private organizations including the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, The MYA Green Trading Group and British television in the areas of research methodology, environmental practice and policy and gender relations.
Dr. Eichberg has a B.A. from Smith College and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Contact
For additional information, please contact:
e - vitalsigns@adelphi.edu
This page last modified on January 14, 2009.
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