Pam received her doctorate from York University and joined the University of Saskatchewan in 1994 as a faculty member in Women’s & Gender Studies before assuming the departmental headship of Archaeology and Anthropology. As a medical anthropologist, Pam’s primary research interests lie in the cultural dimensions of, and community responses to infectious disease and maternal vulnerability. Her most recent work explores maternal health and motherhood in the context of HIV/AIDS in Saskatchewan, and she is currently developing new research projects on cultural competency in maternal health programming as well as family models of health care. Pam’s areas of ethnographic expertise are Central America, the eastern Caribbean, and western Canada.