Dr. Carl Kendall is a Professor at the Department of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, and a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Program in Community Health, School of Medicine, Federal University of Ceará (UFC). He completed his doctorate in Social Anthropology at the University of Rochester and a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at Michigan State University.  Awards and Honors: Professor Kendall has received funding from the Penrose Fund of the American Philosophical Association, the Wenner–Gren Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the US Centers for Disease Control, and the US National Institutes of Health.  He has published more than 230 peer-reviewed papers, chapters, and books.  With a focus on local capacity building, he participates in a number of projects in Brazil, including child development indicators in Brazil, the impact of COVID-19 on care-seeking in Brazil, and studies of health among hidden and vulnerable populations in Brazil, including sexually exploited children.  He is closely involved in the surveillance of the social and health effects of a newly opened uranium mine in Ceará. He teaches medical anthropology and scientific writing at UFC and the introduction to social and behavioral aspects of health at Tulane University. He maintains an interest in population size estimation, social network analysis, and other formal qualitative methods.