Andrew J. Gordon (Ph.D. Wisconsin, MPH Harvard) is an applied anthropologist specializing in medical anthropology and international development with stints of field work in three geographical areas: two years in Guinea, West Africa, one and a half years in the Dominican Republic, and two and one half years in U.S. cities.  Since coming to Houston, he has worked with political refugees and has started a research/intervention project on diabetes control in the Hispanic community as well as having worked on a child survival project in West Africa.  He has consulted widely; examples being: Centers for Disease Control, The World Bank, the Pan American Health Organization, the Agency for International Development, the United States Information Service, and the National Institute of Drug Abuse.  His contributions in theory center on cognitive anthropology and cultural ecology.  His orientation as a professor is towards providing undergraduate courses that enable people to use anthropology as a way of understanding their lives and current situation; and in graduate courses, theses, practica, and advisement to provide graduate students with needed skills, perspectives and sense of problem or mission so they can effectively enter the job market or, alternatively, enter a doctoral program.