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Education:
B.A. Social
Science, University of California,
Irvine,
California, 1975
Ph.D.
Social Science, University of
California,
Irvine,
California, 1980
ABRIDGED PUBLICATION LIST:
Romney AK,
Weller SC, Batchelder WH: Culture as Consensus: A theory of
culture and informant accuracy. American Anthropologist, 1986,
88(2):313-338.
Weller SC,
Buchholtz CH: When a single clustering method creates more than one tree:
A re-analysis of the Salish languages. American Anthropologist, 1986,
88-667-674.
Weller SC,
Romney AK, Orr DP: The myth of a sub-culture of corporal punishment.
Human Organization, 1987, 46(1):39-47.
Weller SC:
Shared knowledge, intracultural variation, and knowledge aggregation.
American Behavioral Scientist, 1987, 31(2):178-193.
Romney AK,
Batchelder WH, Weller SC: Recent applications of cultural
consensus theory. American Behavioral Scientist, 1987, 31(2):163-177.
Pachter LM,
Weller SC: Acculturation and compliance with
medical therapy. J. of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, 1993,
14:163-168.
Richard FO, Klein RE, Flores RZ,
Weller SC, et al. Permethrin-impregnated bed nets for
malaria control in Guatemala: Epidemiologic
impact and community acceptance. Amer. J. of Tropical Medicine and
Hygiene, 1993, 49(4):410-418.
Ruebush TK,
Weller SC, Klein RE: Qualities of an ideal
volunteer malaria worker: a comparison of the opinions of community
residents and national malaria services staff. Social Science and
Medicine, 1994, 39(1):123-131.
Weller SC,
Ruebush TK, Klein RE: Predicting treatment-seeking behavior in Guatemala:
A comparison of health service research and decision-theoretic
approaches. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 1997, 11(2): 224-245.
Weller SC,
Mann NC: Assessing rater performance without a standard using consensus
theory. Medical Decision Making, 1997, 17:71-79.
Trotter II RT,
Weller SC, Baer RD, Pachter LM, et al.:
Consensus theory model of
AIDS/SIDA in four Latino cultures: AIDS:
Education and Prevention, 1999, 11(5):414-426.
Baer, RD,
Weller SC, Pachter LM, Trotter R, et al: Beliefs about AIDS: Data
from five
cultures. Anthropology and Medicine, 1999,
6(1):13-29.
Weller SC,
Baer RD, Pachter LM, Trotter R, et al.: Latino beliefs about diabetes.
Diabetes Care, 1999, 22(5):722-728.
Baer RD,
Weller SC, Pachter LM, et al.: Cross-cultural perspectives on the
common cold: Data from five populations. Human Organization 1999, 58(3):
251-260.
Davis KR,
Weller SC: The Effectiveness of Condoms in Reducing Heterosexual
Transmission of HIV, Family Planning Perspectives 1999 31(6):272-279.
Weller SC,
Davis KR: Condom effectiveness for reducing sexually transmitted
disease. Cochrane Collaborative Review Group on HIV Infection and AIDS.
Cochrane Library.
Weller SC,
Baer RD: Measuring within and between group agreement: Identifying the
proportion of shared and unique beliefs across samples. Field Methods,
2002, 14(1): 6-25.
Pachter LM,
Weller SC, Baer RD, Trotter II, RT: Asthma
beliefs and practices in Mainland Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans,
Mexicans, and Guatemalans: Consistency and variability in health beliefs
and practices. J. Asthma 2002, 39(2): 119-134.
Weller SC,
Baer RD, de Alba JG, Glazer M et al: Regional variation in Latino beliefs
about susto. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 2002, 26:449-472.
Baer RD,
Weller SC, Pachter LM, et al.: A cross-cultural approach to the
study of the folk illness “nervios.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry,
2003, 27:315-337.
Dallo FJ,
Weller SC: Effectiveness of diabetes mellitus screening
recommendations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2003,
100(18): 10574-10579.
Baer RD,
Weller SC, de Alba JG, et al: A comparison of community and physician
explanatory models of AIDS in Mexico and the U.S. Medical Anthropology
Quarterly (in press).
Weller SC,
Romney AK: Systematic Data Collection. Qualitative Research
Methods, Vol. 10 Sage Publications, 1988, 95p.
Weller SC,
Romney AK: Metric Scaling: Correspondence Analysis. Quantitative
Research Methods, Vol. 75, Sage Publications, 1990, 95p.
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Weller’s PhD is in Social Science and
her expertise is in the area of research methods (statistics,
epidemiology, and data collection). She is skilled in both qualitative
and quantitative methods. She has two books on methods: Systematic
Data Collection (Sage Pub) covers a wide variety of interviewing and
data collection methods and Metric Scaling (Sage Pub.) covers
multivariate techniques of principal components, multidimensional
scaling, and correspondence analysis. In the past seven years, she has
been the co-director and a teacher in the National Science Foundation’s
Summer Institute for Research Design. Her research interests focus on
minority health issues with a focus on the measurement of beliefs. She
is the co-developer of the Cultural Consensus Model (Romney, Weller, &
Batchelder 1986; Romney, Batchelder, & Weller 1987), a formal
mathematical model for the assessment of beliefs. Her current funded
research (NSF) concerns the measurement of beliefs and practices among
Latinos in
Guatemala,
Mexico,
South Texas, and
Connecticut. Papers include studies
of Latino beliefs about AIDS/SIDA, diabetes, asthma, the common cold,
and folk illnesses. Over the past decade, her research on the
measurement of illness beliefs has been supported by the National
Science Foundation. She is also the co-author on the meta-analysis of
condom effectiveness for sexually transmitted HIV (Davis & Weller 1999)
and served on the consensus panel to summarize research concerning
condoms and sexually transmitted diseases. Recent work has focused on
diabetes. She has a new paper in the
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences (Dallo & Weller 2003) that tests the effectiveness
of the diabetes screening guidelines using the NHANES III data.
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