The University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
Maria Costanza Torri, Sociology
Dr. Torri has strong expertise in community development, entrepreneurship and gender. She has worked extensively in various countries in Asia (Indonesia, India and Thailand) with small enterprises active in the herbal sector, women’s associations and micro-credit associations.
Koumari Mitra, Anthropology
Dr. Mitra is a medical anthropologist with specialization in Asian countries. She has worked extensively with women and has carried out numerous projects in Asia and Northern America on gender, health, poverty, and development strategies including examining Indigenous entrepreneurship and traditional medicinal knowledge.
The University of Ottawa
Julie Laplante, Anthropology and Sociology
Dr. Laplante is a cultural anthropologist with specializations in qualitative research in medical anthropology and the anthropology of knowledge and of humanitarian medicine. Julie Laplante has been working on the question of the intersections between indigenous (traditional) and humanitarian (biomedical) medicines on projects in Brazil, Mexico, Bolivia and South Africa.
The University of Gadjah Mada
In order to maximize opportunities for mutual learning and exchange, it is important that international researchers carrying out research in Indonesia should work in partnership with local scholars based in Indonesian universities.