Health Industry Collaboration Effort

Diana M. Carr
Team Co-Leader
Health Net of California
Cultural & Linguistic Services Specialist
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Diana Carr, MA, is a Cultural and Linguistic Services Consultant at Health Net of California. Ms. Carr holds a Master of Art’s degree in anthropology and is a candidate in the doctoral program at University of California, Riverside. Ms. Carr is a medical anthropologist whose area of specialization is non-western health care and ethnopharmacology. She has nine years experience teaching anthropology and culture at local universities, and has developed cultural competency training programs that are used to educate internal staff and external providers. Ms. Carr also has extensive background in anthropological linguistics, which includes the cultural transmission of information through language and exploring the processes involved in learning various cultures.