Ina Vandebroek

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Ina Vandebroek
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Ina Vandebroek
NationalityBelgian
Education Ghent University
Scientific career
Fields Botany
Ethnobotany
Ethnobiology
Institutions The New York Botanical Garden
Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
The Graduate Center, CUNY
Thesis
  • Ph.D.: "Research into the neurobiochemical background of captivity-induced stereotyped behavior in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus): ethopharmacology and intra-cerebral microdialysis"  (1998)
Academic advisors Patrick Van Damme

Ina Vandebroek is an ethnobotanist working in the areas of floristics, ethnobotany and community health. Since 2005, she has worked at the New York Botanical Garden in the Institute of Economic Botany. She has worked on ethnobotanical projects in North America, the Caribbean, and South America.

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Education

In 1991, Vandebroek received a BSc. in biology from Ghent University in Belgium with research in the fields of morphology and systematics. Her undergraduate dissertation was on the effects of naloxone and apomorphine on captivity-induced stereotyped behavior in the bank vole ( Clethrionomys glareolus ). [1] In 1998, she received a Ph.D. in Medical Sciences from Ghent University with a graduate dissertation titled "Research into the neurobiochemical background of captivity-induced stereotyped behavior in the bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus): ethopharmacology and intra-cerebral microdialysis". [2]

Career

Ghent University

From 2000 until 2002, Vandebroek worked as a postdoctoral researcher and was the lead researcher on a project funded by the Agency for Innovation by Science and Technology of the Belgian government through Ghent University. The project was based in Bolivia and known as "Medicinal Plant Explorations in the Andes and Amazon Regions of Bolivia Ethnographic and ethnobotanical research was conducted in a traditional farming community in the Andes and in indigenous communities in the Amazon in Bolivia." She summarized the results as follows. "The results demonstrated that knowledge held by traditional healers about medicinal plants can also be high in an environment such as the Andes that is significantly affected by human activity and is less diverse as compared to the tropical rainforest. In the Amazon, knowledge about medicinal plants was inversely related to the use of pharmaceutical products and to distance from Western primary healthcare services." [2] Outreach activities associated with this research project included two community guidebooks in Spanish that were developed to return research results to the communities to help preserve their cultural heritage. [3] [4]

The New York Botanical Garden

In 2005, Vandebroek joined The New York Botanical Garden as a postdoctoral research associate in the Institute of Economic Botany. From 2005 until 2010 she worked on projects related to the Dominican Republic. Most notably, she directed "Dominican Ethnomedicine and Culturally Effective Health Care in New York City" (principal investigator: Michael Balick) and "Dominican Traditional Medicine for Urban Community Health". These projects focused on the question of what happens to the medicinal plant knowledge that people from the Dominican Republic have once they move to New York City. The research found that medicinal plant knowledge was not lost by this community after migration; [5] in fact, the importance of food as medicine became even greater within this relocated population. [2] Vandebroek drew upon her research during this time for her 2007 book, Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations, which she co-edited with Andrea Pieroni and authored chapters with others. [6]

From 2010 until 2014 Vandebroek worked as an Ethnomedical Research Specialist at the New York Botanical Garden. She directed "Improving Healthcare for Underserved Immigrant Latino Communities in New York City," "Cultural Competency Training for Health Care Professionals in Latino Ethnomedical Systems in New York City," "Dominican Ethnomedicine and Culturally Effective Health Care in New York City," and "Dominican Traditional Medicine for Urban Community Health."

From 2014 until the present day, Vandebroek has been the Matthew Calbraith Perry Assistant Curator of Economic Botany and Caribbean Program Director at the New York Botanical Garden. In this capacity, she directs the Caribbean and Latino Ethnomedicine Program, which investigates and compares the use of medicinal plants for healthcare by Latino and Caribbean communities living in New York City and their countries of origin. Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans, Jamaicans are the central populations involved in these research studies. She and her team study wild and cultivated plants that are used culturally as medicines and foods, as well as "folk illnesses," and how they are related to mainstream biomedicine, in terms of the biological efficacy and safety of these plants, and the gap in biomedical knowledge about illnesses with a strong cultural component. The project aims to use research results in order to develop materials used for medical education.

She has been interviewed about her work on PBS, WNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Smithsonian Magazine, National Geographic's The Plate and The New York Times . [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12]

Other work

Vandebroek is also a lecturer at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and an adjunct member of the City University of New York Biology Doctoral Faculty Plant Sciences Subprogram at (The Graduate Center, CUNY). [13] [14]

Vandebroek is Deputy Editor for the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, Associate Editor for Economic Botany , and Editorial Board Member for Ethnobiology and Conservation. She has been a council member for professional societies, including the International Society of Ethnobiology from 2008 to 2010, and the Society for Economic Botany from 2010 to 2013.

Selected publications

Books

Selected peer-reviewed journal articles

References

  1. ↑ Vandebroek, Ina; Coomans, August (advisor) (1991). Invloed Van Naloxone En Van Apomorfine Op Conflict-geïnduceerde Stereotypieën Bij De Rosse Woelmuis (Clethrionomys Glareolus) / Effect of Naloxon and Apomorphine on Captivity-Induced Stereotyped Behavior in the Bank Vole (Clethrionomys Glareolus) (Dissertation). Ghent: Ghent University.{{cite book}}: |first2= has generic name (help)
  2. 1 2 3 "Vandebroek Ina" (Curriculum vitae). New York Botanical Garden . 14 February 2017.
  3. ↑ Vandebroek, Ina, Evert Thomas & Ametrac (2003). Las plantas medicinales para la atencion primaria de la salud. El conocimiento de ocho medicos tradicionales de Apillapampa, Bolivia [Medicinal plants for primary healthcare. The knowledge of eight traditional healers from Apillapampa, Bolivia]. Bolivia: Industrias Graficas Serrano, Cochabamba. pp. 1–317. ISBN   90-5989-009-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ↑ Vandebroek, Ina; Evert, Thomas (2006). Guía de plantas medicinales de los Yuracares y Trinitarios del Territorio Indígena Parque Nacional Isiboro-Sécure, Bolivia. Santa Cruz, Bolivia: Imprenta Sirena. ISBN   978-90-5989-139-5.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. 1 2 Vandebroek, Ina; Balick, Michael J. (25 May 2012). "Globalization and Loss of Plant Knowledge: Challenging the Paradigm". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): e37643. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...737643V. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037643 . PMC   3360753 . PMID   22662184.
  6. ↑ Vandebroek, Ina (2007). "Chapter 2. "Use of Medicinal Plants by Dominican Immigrants in New York City for the Treatment of Common Health Conditions: A Comparative Analysis with Literature Data from the Dominican Republic," Chapter 7. "The Use of Home Remedies for Health Care and Well-Being by Spanish-Speaking Latino Immigrants in London: A Reflection on Acculturation"". In Pieroni, Andrea; Vandebroek, Ina (eds.). Traveling Cultures and Plants: The Ethnobiology and Ethnopharmacy of Human Migrations. New York: Berghahn Books. pp.  39–63, 145–165. ISBN   978-1-84545-373-2. OCLC   873806266.
  7. ↑ "Ina Vandebroek: Ethnobiologist/Salsa Dancer". Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers — Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers, Nova . PBS. 16 November 2009.
  8. ↑ Gardner Jr., Ralph (6 November 2014). "Rooting for Health (and Luck!): An Ethnobotanist Helps Ralph Gardner Jr. Get to the Root of Things". Wall Street Journal. WSJ. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  9. ↑ Nowakowski, Kelsey (10 November 2016). "On Tiny Island Farms, Biodiversity Is a Way of Life". The Plate. National Geographic. Archived from the original on November 12, 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
  10. ↑ Blakemore, Erin. "Will Medicine Survive the Anthropocene?". Smithsonian.
  11. ↑ Cheng, Pei-Sze (21 October 2004). "NY Botanical Garden's Ethno-Botany Project" (Video interview). NBC New York .
  12. ↑ Schiffman, Richard (13 November 2015). "Wary of Mainstream Medicine, Immigrants Seek Remedies From Home". The New York Times .
  13. ↑ "Ina Vandebroek, Lecturer". Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies . 2010.
  14. ↑ "Biology, Faculty Bios: Vandebroek, Ina". Graduate Center, CUNY . 2012.
  15. ↑ "Can Andean medicine coexist with biomedical healthcare? A comparison of two rural communities in Peru and Bolivia" (PDF). Ethnobiomed.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  16. ↑ Mathez-Stiefel, S. L.; Vandebroek, I. (2012). "Distribution and transmission of medicinal plant knowledge in the andean highlands: A case study from peru and bolivia". Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine. 2012: 959285. doi: 10.1155/2012/959285 . PMC   3235884 . PMID   22203885.
  17. ↑ "Local knowledge: Who cares?" (PDF). Ethnobiomed.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  18. ↑ Keller, Amy C.; Vandebroek, Ina; Liu, Youping; Balick, Michael J.; Kronenberg, Fredi; Kennelly, Edward J.; Brillantes, Anne-Marie B. (21 January 2009). "Costus spicatus tea failed to improve diabetic progression in C57BLKS/J db/db mice, a model of type 2 diabetes mellitus". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 121 (2): 248–254. doi:10.1016/j.jep.2008.10.025. PMC   2643842 . PMID   19027842.
  19. ↑ "Comparison of health conditions treated with traditional and biomedical health care in a Quechua community in rural Bolivia" (PDF). Ethnobiomed.com. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  20. ↑ "Cross-cultural adaptation in urban ethnobotany: The Colombian folk pharmacopoeia in London" (PDF). Etnobotanica.de. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
  21. ↑ Bussmann, Rainer W.; Sharon, Douglas; Vandebroek, Ina; Jones, Ana; Revene, Zachary (10 December 2007). "Health for sale: the medicinal plant markets in Trujillo and Chiclayo, Northern Peru". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 3 (1): 37. doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-3-37 . PMC   2245918 . PMID   18070350.
  22. ↑ Pieroni, Andrea; Price, Lisa Leimar; Vandebroek, Ina (29 July 2005). "Welcome to Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine". Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 1 (1): 1. doi: 10.1186/1746-4269-1-1 . PMC   1266047 .
  23. ↑ "Use of medicinal plants and pharmaceuticals by indigenous communities in the Bolivian Andes and Amazon" (PDF). Who.int. Retrieved 2017-08-22.
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