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Nora Ellen Groce is Assistant Professor of Public Health and Anthropology. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University and completed her postdoctoral training at Harvard. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was based at the Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital. She has ongoing research interest in socio-cultural issues of health care delivery systems, with particular attention to issues of disability, child health, and health care in ethnic and minority communities. She is currently working on issues of improved service delivery systems for disabled children and adults in ethnic and minority communities and on issues of urban violence. She has served on the National Coalition on Foreign Policy and Disability, on the Board of Protection and Advocacy for the Disabled of the Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation and on the boards of the Society for Disability Studies and the New Haven Center for Independence and Access. In addition to many articles and a book, The U.S. Role in International Disability Activities (1992), Professor Groce is widely known for her book, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language, on the social consequences of heredity deafness on Martha's Vineyard, which is now translated and published in a number of languages.
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