Book Manuscripts:
Carruth, Lauren. September 2021. “Love and liberation: humanitarian work in the Somali Region of Ethiopia.” Cornell University Press. https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501759666/love-and-liberation/#bookTabs=1
Carruth, Lauren and Lahra Smith. In progress, “Escape and power: women’s migrations between Africa and the Middle East.”
Research and Analysis Articles:
Carruth, Lauren and Lahra Smith. Under review. “Building one’s own House: Power and Escape for Ethiopian Women through International Migration.” Journal of Modern African Studies.
Martinez, Carlos, Lauren Carruth, Lahra Smith, Katharine Donato, Carlos Piñones-Rivera, James Quesada, and Seth Holmes. 2022 How Should Clinicians Express Solidarity With Asylum Seekers at the US-Mexico Border? AMA Journal of Ethics. Apr 1;24(4):275-82. https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-should-clinicians-express-solidarity-asylum-seekers-us-mexico-border/2022-04
Carruth, Lauren “Humanitarian Aid Workers Need Security, Rights, and Better Pay.” The Conversation. April 4, 2022. https://theconversation.com/humanitarian-aid-workers-need-security-rights-and-better-pay-179546
Carruth, Lauren and Scott Freeman. 2020. “Aid or exploitation?: food-for-work, cash-for-work, and the production of “beneficiary-workers” in Ethiopia and Haiti. World Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105283.
Kohrt, Brandon and Lauren Carruth. 2020. “Syndemic effects in complex humanitarian emergencies: a framework for understanding political violence and improving multi-morbidity health outcomes.” Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113378.
Carruth, Lauren, Mohamed Jama Ateye, Ahmed Nassir, Farah Mussa Hosh, and Emily Mendenhall. 2020. “Diabetes in a humanitarian crisis-affected population: atypical clinical presentations, and challenges to clinical- and community-based management.” Global Public Health. 15(6): 828-839. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2020.1718735.
Carruth, Lauren and Emily Mendenhall. 2019. “Wasting away:” food insecurity, medical insecurity, and diabetes in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Social Science & Medicine. 288(May 2019):155-163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.03.026
Carruth, Lauren. 2018. The data hustle: how beneficiaries benefit from continual data collection and humanitarian aid research in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 32(3):340-364. DOI: 10.1111/maq.12431
Carruth, Lauren. 2018. Kinship, nomadism, and humanitarian aid among Somalis in Ethiopia. 42(1): 149-168. Disasters.DOI: 10.1111/disa.12236.
Carruth, Lauren. 2016. Peace in the clinic: rethinking “global health diplomacy” in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Culture, Medicine, & Psychiatry. 40(2): 181-197. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-015-9455-6
Carruth, Lauren. 2014. Camel Milk, Amoxicillin, and a Prayer: Medical Pluralism and Medical Humanitarian Aid in the Somali Region of Ethiopia. Special Issue on Medical Humanitarianism. Social Science & Medicine. 120:405-412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.03.007
Yuan NP, Castañeda H, Nichter M, Nichter M, Wind S, Carruth L, Muramoto M. 2011. Lay Health Influencers: How They Tailor Brief Tobacco Cessation Interventions. Health Education & Behavior. 39(5):544-54.
Yuan NP, Wind S, Nichter M, Nichter M, Castañeda H, Carruth L, Muramoto M. 2010. Types of lay health influencers in tobacco cessation: a qualitative study. American Journal of Health Behavior. 34(5):607-17.
de Waal, Alexander, Taffesse, AS and Carruth, L. 2006. Child survival during the 2002-2003 drought in Ethiopia. Global Public Health, 1(2): 125-132. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441690600661168.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Essays, Editorials, and Commentaries:
Carruth, Lauren. 2020. “Rethinking fatness, rethinking diabetes.” American Anthropologist. 122(3): 643-645. Vital Topics Forum: Chronic Disaster: Reimagining Non-Communicable Chronic Disease. Alyshia Gálvez, Megan Carney, and Emily Yates-Doerr, eds. https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13440.
Burnett, Diana, Megan A. Carney, Lauren Carruth, Sarah Chard, Maggie Dickinson, Alyshia Gálvez, Hanna Garth, Jessica Hardin, Adele Hite, Heather Howard, Lenore Manderson, Emily Mendenhall, Abril Saldaña-Tejeda, Dana Simmons, Natali Valdez, Emily Vasquez, Megan Warin, and Emily Yates-Doerr. 2020. Anthropologists Respond to The Lancet EAT Commission. Revista Bionatura: Latin American Journal of Biotechnology and Life Sciences. 5(1) http://revistabionatura.com/2020.05.01.2.php
Carruth, Lauren, Sarah Chard, Heather A. Howard, Lenore Manderson, Emily Mendenhall, Emily Vasquez, and Emily Yates-Doerr. 2019. Disaggregating diabetes: new subtypes, causes, and care. Medicine Anthropology Theory (MAT). 6(4):119-126. doi.org/10.17157/mat.6.4.730 http://www.medanthrotheory.org/read/11519/disaggregating-diabetes
Carruth, Lauren and Emily Mendenhall. 2018. Social aetiologies of type 2 diabetes. BMJ. 2018(361):k1795. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.k1795
Carruth, Lauren, A Roess, Yitagele T, Farah MH, M Salman. 2017. Antimicrobial Resistance and Food Safety in Africa. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17(6): 575-576. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30273-6
Carruth, Lauren, A Roess, Y Terefe, S Keskes, M Nichter, and M Salman. 2016. Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Challenges and Ways Forward. The Lancet. 388(10059): 2460–2461. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(16)32186-9
Roess, Amira, Lauren Carruth, Sally Lahm, and Mo Salman. 2016. Camels, MERS-CoV, and other emerging infections in east Africa. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 16(1):14-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00471-5.