Edward C. Green is an applied medical anthropologist and Senior Research Scientist at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, part of Harvard University's School of Public Health. He has 30 years of experience in developing countries in project design, implementation and evaluation, as well as in basic and operations research, social marketing, behavior change & communication (BCC), health education, and indigenous, non-Western medicine. Sectoral experience includes AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases, family planning, primary health care, maternal & child health, children affected by war, child nutrition, water and sanitation, environmental health, U.S. minority health, biodiversity and conservation, and cancer programs. He is a specialist in integrating indigenous and "modern" health systems, and served as a team leader on numerous USAID project designs and evaluations. Green is the author of five books, the editor of one book, and has written over 250 peer-reviewed journal articles or book chapters, conference papers, or commissioned technical reports.