Prospects for Burma After Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release (ARI)

Aung San Suu Kyi’s release coincided with the holding of national elections for a military-designed state to provide the ruling junta with a veneer of legitimacy. Nevertheless, the lifting of sanctions will remain the central issue facing Burma’s relations with foreign countries, which will have to balance out human rights issues and investment opportunities. Aung San Suu Kyi and her treatment by the new government will play a determining role in deciding this issue

Fearless (Saturday): Michael Hannum

In celebration of Alumni Homecoming Weekend and Hispanic Heritage Week, we proudly feature Michael Hannum, member of the Class of 2011, for his fearless commitment to fighting for social justice issues and his continued involvement in serving the Adams County community. Currently working with the Lincoln Intermediate Unit’s Migrant Education Program as a Recruitment Coordinator, Michael began finding his passion for helping identify families in the migrant community who need extra educational support when he was a first-year student just looking for something to do. [excerpt

Health and health promotion and applied health psychology in sexual and stigmatized minority populations : a collection of papers and a monograph presented in application for the degree of Doctor of Science at Massey University

This Doctor of Science comprises a number of published works, listed in the attached file. As such due to copyright restriction they are not included here but can be accessed individually from the publisher. The author's Curriculum Vitae has been redacted from the attached file for privacy reasons.In a career lifetime of working in both universities and in and with health departments, my work in applied psychology has dealt with stigmatized sexual minorities (particularly MSM) in many countries and settings, including before, during, and after the main impact of the AIDS epidemic (which in many locations and populations is still epidemic or in a subsequent “wave”). Applied health psychology must of necessity make use of many opportunities that cannot be planned in advance, or of situations where study of stigmatized groups is both dangerous (for them and for researchers) and difficult. The unifying theme in this DSc is the stigmatized minority group, the stigmatized disease, and the stigmatized setting. Massey University provided the training for the first “bookend” of my career at its beginning, and this dissertation as the second “bookend” some 45 years later of a career of surprises, opportunities, and challenges – some of the better parts of which are reflected in these pages