212 American Anthropologist Vol 112, No. 2. June 2010 the Danish Energy Agency's Polar Science Day and at th GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS GRID-Arendal's United Nations Environment Programme's Without a doubt, the health of the individual and commu Many Strong Voices"event. Noor Johnson played a coor- nities became a topic of popular discussion in 2009. Media dinator role by helping to organize the activities of the Inuit exposure of issues like genetically modified food produc Circumpolar Council of Canada(ICC), a UNFCCC accred tion, the growth of CSAs(community supported agricul ited observer organization. Other participants in the event ture), the u.S. health-care-reform debate, and the global anthropology team included Brandon Derman(a human ge- swine-flu epidemic incited a focus on healthy lifes grapher), Ted Maclin, and Bob Pokrant. Collectively, the thropologists were active in bringing to light long-standin group focused their coverage on the following: participation issues of health disparities and global health-related huma by forest and Arctic indigenous communities and NGOs in rights violations, as well as in providing recommendations olicy development; knowledge flows among constituencies for national and community-level policy initiatives in the (scientific, governmental, nongovernmental, and civil soci- wake of this renewed public interest ty)present at the Climate Summit; and human rights and For example, David Himmelgreen's(2009)The Global social justice issues entailed in the framing of a"democratic" Food Crisis: New Insights into an Age-Old Problem brought to UNFCCC process gether a series of applied and practicing anthropologists to Mite anet Chernela, Janis Alcorn, Robert Hitchcock, Mark shed light on the ways in which food policies and economic Nuttall, and others covered indigenous responses to the restructuring have contributed to increasing food inequities REDD initiatives and UNFCCC process. Collectively, they across the globe. Contributors offer a range of ways in which documented meetings that led to Copenhagen, working with anthropology can play a role in formulating locall ly appropr indigenous communities and their advocates to ensure that ate solutions to the global food crisis. Barbara Ryklo-Bauer cultural rights would be recognized within the agreements eagles ar nd others took up the impact of structural Chernela, for example, reported on the indigenous peo- military, and communal violence on health and healthcare les and climate-change meeting of the Brazilian indigenous delivery in their edited volume, Global Health in Times of association COIAB( Seminario Povos Indigenas e Mudan- Violence(2009). And Nancy Scheper-Hughes's decade-lon cas Climaticas) held on September 10, 2009. She translated research on illegal organ trafficking entered the u. S.main and shared with colleagues the letter that seminar partic- stream in July of 2009 with widespread media coverage oduced, calling on the Brazilian government and of the federal arrest of 44 people-including New jersey signatories of the UN convention on climate to for- state legislators, government officials, and rabbis--for their recognize the role of indigenous peoples in the pro- involvement in an international laundering scheme that traf tection and conservation of the Amazon forests. Others, ficked human organs. Scheper-Hughes's research and the such as Chris Erni of the International Work Group for data collected by her nonprofit organization Organs Watch Indigenous Affairs and members of the Forest Peoples Pro-(a human rights group in Berkeley, CA) played a key sup gram, lent their support to indigenous organizations whose porting role in building the FBI case. The specific case-and fforts to obtain title to ancestral tropical rainforest are the global black market in organ trafficking, in general- adversely impacted by climate-change "solutions, " which, was the subject of television, radio, and media interviews among other things, represent a commoditization of sacred with Scheper-Hughes by Newsweek, CNN, NPR'S Talk of the erritor The overall concern of these and other anthropologists Public engagement with national-level health and hu who work with indigenous peoples is that, despite the 2007 man rights concerns is also illustrated with the May 2009 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, indi publication of Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg's pho nous peoples'basic human rights--especially their rights toethnography, Righteous Dopefiend. Part of the University of o land, employment, resources, and residence--remained California's Series in Public Anthropology, the book makes threatened via the climate-change talks. Communicating a case for "critically applied public anthropology" through these concerns in various ways up to and at the Copenhagen its focus on the unintended consequences of public policies meeting had some impact, as illustrated in the December that inadvertently exacerbate the suffering of street-based 12, 2009, climate-change statement on the proposed REDD drug users in the United States. The work was on exhibit mechanisms, which included a statement on indigenous peo- at the Slought Foundation of Philadelphia from December ples. It was the first in the UNFCCC Process to refer to 3 to 31, 2009, and at the University of Pennsylvania Ar- ration on Mo shts, and it made note of the 2007 UN Decla- chaology and Anthropology Museum from December 5 Rights of Indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, through May of 2010. The exhibition was designed as a this language was not contained in the final Copenhagen Ac- public conversation in conjunction with the Penn Center for cord, and indigenous peoples worldwide have sharply criti- Public Health Initiatives's 2009-10 series, Creative Action: The cized the emerging statements. Anthropological research on Arts in Public Health. Policy recommendations that emerg the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples, thus from their research include the expansion of single-re becomes all the more pressing in 2010 cupancy hotels with in-house medical staffs, mobile health212 American Anthropologist • Vol. 112, No. 2 • June 2010 the Danish Energy Agency’s Polar Science Day and at the GRID-Arendal’sUnitedNations Environment Programme’s “Many Strong Voices” event. Noor Johnson played a coor￾dinator role by helping to organize the activities of the Inuit Circumpolar Council of Canada (ICC), a UNFCCC accred￾ited observer organization. Other participants in the event anthropology team included Brandon Derman (a human ge￾ographer), Ted Maclin, and Bob Pokrant. Collectively, the group focused their coverage on the following: participation by forest and Arctic indigenous communities and NGOs in policy development; knowledge flows among constituencies (scientific, governmental, nongovernmental, and civil soci￾ety) present at the Climate Summit; and human rights and social justice issues entailed in the framing of a “democratic” UNFCCC process. Janet Chernela, Janis Alcorn, Robert Hitchcock, Mark Nuttall, and others covered indigenous responses to the REDD initiatives and UNFCCC process. Collectively, they documented meetingsthat ledto Copenhagen, working with indigenous communities and their advocates to ensure that cultural rights would be recognized within the agreements. Chernela, for example, reported on the indigenous peo￾ples and climate-change meeting of the Brazilian indigenous association COIAB (Seminario Povos Indigenas e Mudan￾cas Climaticas) held on September 10, 2009. She translated and shared with colleagues the letter that seminar partic￾ipants produced, calling on the Brazilian government and other signatories of the UN convention on climate to for￾mally recognize the role of indigenous peoples in the pro￾tection and conservation of the Amazon forests. Others, such as Chris Erni of the International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs and members of the Forest Peoples Pro￾gram, lent their support to indigenous organizations whose efforts to obtain title to ancestral tropical rainforest are adversely impacted by climate-change “solutions,” which, among other things, represent a commoditization of sacred territory. The overall concern of these and other anthropologists who work with indigenous peoples is that, despite the 2007 UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, indige￾nous peoples’ basic human rights—especially their rights to land, employment, resources, and residence—remained threatened via the climate-change talks. Communicating these concerns in various ways up to and at the Copenhagen meeting had some impact, as illustrated in the December 12, 2009, climate-change statement on the proposed REDD mechanisms, which included a statement on indigenous peo￾ples. It was the first in the UNFCCC process to refer to indigenous rights, and it made note of the 2007 UN Decla￾ration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, this language was not contained in the final Copenhagen Ac￾cord, and indigenous peoples worldwide have sharply criti￾cized the emerging statements. Anthropological research on the effects of climate change on indigenous peoples, thus, becomes all the more pressing in 2010. GLOBAL HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS Without a doubt, the health of the individual and commu￾nities became a topic of popular discussion in 2009. Media exposure of issues like genetically modified food produc￾tion, the growth of CSAs (community supported agricul￾ture), the U.S. health-care-reform debate, and the global swine-flu epidemic incited a focus on healthy lifestyles. An￾thropologists were active in bringing to light long-standing issues of health disparities and global health–related human rights violations, as well as in providing recommendations for national and community-level policy initiatives in the wake of this renewed public interest. For example, David Himmelgreen’s (2009) The Global Food Crisis: New Insights into an Age-Old Problem brought to￾gether a series of applied and practicing anthropologists to shed light on the ways in which food policies and economic restructuring have contributed to increasing food inequities across the globe. Contributors offer a range of ways in which anthropology can play a role in formulating locally appropri￾ate solutions to the global food crisis. Barbara Ryklo-Bauer and colleagues and others took up the impact of structural, military, and communal violence on health and healthcare delivery in their edited volume, Global Health in Times of Violence (2009). And Nancy Scheper-Hughes’s decade-long research on illegal organ trafficking entered the U.S. main￾stream in July of 2009 with widespread media coverage of the federal arrest of 44 people—including New Jersey state legislators, government officials, and rabbis—for their involvement in an international laundering scheme that traf- ficked human organs. Scheper-Hughes’s research and the data collected by her nonprofit organization Organs Watch (a human rights group in Berkeley, CA) played a key sup￾porting role in building the FBI case. The specific case—and the global black market in organ trafficking, in general— was the subject of television, radio, and media interviews with Scheper-Hughes by Newsweek, CNN, NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and others. Public engagement with national-level health and hu￾man rights concerns is also illustrated with the May 2009 publication of Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg’s pho￾toethnography, Righteous Dopefiend. Part of the University of California’s Series in Public Anthropology, the book makes a case for “critically applied public anthropology” through its focus on the unintended consequences of public policies that inadvertently exacerbate the suffering of street-based drug users in the United States. The work was on exhibit at the Slought Foundation of Philadelphia from December 3 to 31, 2009, and at the University of Pennsylvania Ar￾chaeology and Anthropology Museum from December 5 through May of 2010. The exhibition was designed as a public conversation in conjunction with the Penn Center for PublicHealthInitiatives’s 2009–10 series, Creative Action: The Arts in Public Health. Policy recommendations that emerged from their research include the expansion of single-room￾occupancy hotels with in-house medical staffs, mobile health