My current research interest involves developing a methodology that will improve communication between health, social service and non-profit service provider, and low and middle income clients. I am completing work on a book focused on "Health Seeking Behavior and Ethnicity"; additionally, I will begin work on a book on "World Cultures". It is my continued interest to examine areas related to issues of sustainability, and discovering ways to improve survival for persons living at the lower end of the class scale. Such research involves developing coordinated strategies across the living environment of persons included in the study. I am interested in; African American Material Culture; Traditional and Folk Medicine; Community Development Issues; Issues of Culture and Aging' and studies of spiritual/religious/non-religious behavior.

Selected Consulting Projects

2001-1999 Project Director, "African Americans at SNEE FARM PROJECT," National Forest Service

2000- 1998 Consultant/Associate Director, "HUD/CCOP Project," University of North Texas

2000-1999 Consultant/Project Director, "Family Medicine Research Project," Department of Family Medicine. Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine

1992 Consultant, "Nutrition and African-Americans," National Cancer Institute

1991 Consultant/Ethnographer, "HCFA Nursing Home Project," Abt Associates

Education

l979 Certificate in Gerontology, Gerontology Center, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

l979 Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 

l977 M.A. Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. 

l973 B.A. Anthropology, Department of Anthropology Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. 

Selected Publications

2005 Gibbs, Tyson and Sue Lurie, Ethnicity and Health Seeking Behavior, In Progress

2004, Sinha, Arushi and Tyson Gibbs, Social Stratificationand health in the Western Context, Encyclopedia of Medical Anthropology, Kluwer and Plenum Publishers.

2002 Gibbs, Tyson and Sue Lurie. Ethnicity and Health Seeking Behavior. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, In Progress.

1999 Gibbs, Tyson. "Empowerment Within Local Communities." Sustainable Communities Review 4: 3 - 7.

1999 Gibbs, Tyson. Diversity Among Black Americans. Part of American's Hidden Diversity. In: Problems and Issues of Diversity in the United States. Ed. Larry Naylor. Bergin and Garvey Publishers, Westport, Connecticut.

1999 Gibbs, Tyson and Judith Campbell. "Practicing Polygyny in Black America: Challenging Definition, Legal and Social Considerations for the African American Community." The Western Journal of Black Studies 23: 22-31.

1998 Gibbs, Tyson. "Slaves and Black Freedmen as Cabinetmakers." Antique Review 24: 12 - 13.

1997 Reed, Ed, Erma Lawson, and Tyson Gibbs. "Afrocentrism in the 21st Century." The Western Journal of Black Studies 21: 173-179.

Gibbs, Tyson. Portrait of Minority. In: Diversity and Culture. Ed. Larry Naylor. Bergin and Garvey,  Westport, Connecticut.

1996 Gibbs, Tyson. "Issues of Ethnicity and Culture in the Workplace." High Plains Applied Anthropologist 16:196 - 202.

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