Trained in both socio-cultural anthropology and public health, Dr. Wardlow is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at University of Toronto (St. George), and currently serves as the Interim Director for the ICHS. Her early research in Papua New Guinea focused on “passenger women” – women who exchange sex for money, but whose life histories and motivations do not easily align with the assumptions often brought to terms such as “sex work” or “transactional sex.”  More recent research includes “Love, Marriage, and HIV: A Multi-Sited Ethnographic Study of Gender and HIV Risk.” Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, this comparative project investigated married women’s risk for HIV in five countries: Papua New Guinea, Mexico, Nigeria, Uganda, and Vietnam. Most recently, Dr. Wardlow has conducted research on the lived experience of being HIV-positive and in treatment in Papua New Guinea. She is now writing a book that tells the story of HIV/AIDS in Tari, Papua New Guinea through women’s eyes, from the environments and social relations that made them vulnerable to HIV (e.g. mining sites and political turmoil) to their variable experiences of love, acceptance, or violent rejection upon receiving a positive diagnosis.