Z. Tursunova
The University of Manitoba
Canada

Dr. Zulfiya Tursunova is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Faculty of Nursing at the Univerity of Manitoba. She received her Ph.D. from A.V. Mauro Centre for Peace and Justice, St. Paul’s College at the University of Manitoba. She is currently the principal investigator of a research project that aims to explore decision-making and negotiation processes between the family caregiver and care recipient as they deal with chronic illness in the Filipino community in Manitoba. Her professional experience is focused on health and culture care, community development, communication and conflict resolution methods, and feminist research. Her Ph.D. dissertation, “Livelihood, Empowerment, and Conflict Resolution in the Lives of Indigenous Women in Uzbekistan” examined women’s healing rituals and grassroot conflict resolution methods to address socio-economic challenges after the collapse of the ex-USSR. She has organized previous workshops and conferences related to chronic illness in First Nations communities in Manitoba. She plans to continue focusing her research on immigrant health in Manitoba by looking at culture care, ethnicity, gender, and communication in the context of family caregiving and chronic or serious illness.

M. Kamp
http://www.uwyo.edu/history/faculty-and-staff/kamp.html

The University of Wyoming
United States

Dr. Marianne Kamp is Associate Professor of History at the University of Wyoming. She earned her PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The New Woman in Uzbekistan: Islam, Modernity, and Unveiling under Communism (University of Washington 2006), and of numerous articles about twentieth century social history of Uzbekistan, and gender studies of Central Asia.

N. Azizova
Freelance Social\Gender consultant
Uzbekistan

Nodira Azizova is a freelance Social\Gender consultant. As  a national expert she is participating in implementation of number of projects from Asian Development Bank such as Regional Railway Rehabilitation Project (2004), Off-grid Renewable Energy Development Project (2005), Rural Renewable Energy Development Project(2006), Water Resources Management Sector Project (2008), CAREC-2 Road Investment Program, Tranche 2 (2009-2010, Solar Energy Development (2013).

L. Azizova
College at the Tashkent Institute of Communication
Uzbekistan

Lobar Azizova is a student at the college at the Tashkent Institute of Communication in Uzbekistan.