Sarah Archer

Dr. Archer is a public health nurse with a B.S. in Nursing from Indiana University, 1960, a Masters in Public Health from the University of Michigan, 1964; and a Doctorate in Public Health from the University of California at Berkeley, 1973. She has been Professor of Public Health Nursing at the University of California at San Francisco from 1973-1984 and Visiting Professor at Dhaka University, Bangladesh and University of Indianapolis. She is a guest lecturer at Indiana University School of Public Health and Butler University. Recent consultancies have been with HIV/STD Division of the Indiana State Department of Health and program evaluation for Indiana Primary Health Care Association. At present she is a member of the Indianapolis Red Cross Disaster Assistance Team and the American Red Cross Disaster Services Human Resources System, as well as civilian subject matter expert with the military (see below). Since 2001 she has been a Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Indianapolis in Eastern European and Central Asian Studies.

Dr Archer has served in humanitarian assistance in the following capacities:

• Rural public health nurse with refugees and internally displaced people (IDPs) in Jordan for Near East Christian Council for Refugee Work, a faith-based NGO 1960-61




• Senior Nurse Educator and Maternal-Child Health and Nutrition Project Coordinator, in Bangladesh World Health Organization (WHO), a United Nations agency 1985-90




• Training Methodology Specialist training-trainers in MCH and Family Planning program in Bangladesh for Gesellschaft feur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), the German Government?s bilateral international development assistance agency 1990-94




• Coordinator for Emergency Health Assessment of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in rural Angola for International Medical Corps (IMC), a US-based NGO 1994




• Country Director and Medical Coordinator in Rwanda, 1994-95 for IMC 1994-95




• Emergency Health Assessment of IDPs and grant writing in Kosovo and Montenegro, IMC 1998

Since 1998, Dr. Archer had been a humanitarian assistance and public health subject matter expert (SME) with Battle Command Training Program (BCTP), Fort Leavenworth, KS. She brings her humanitarian assistance and public health expertise to professional military education and training for humanitarian assistance in disasters, peacekeeping operations for SFOR and KFOR, consequence management, and warfighting. She is a visiting faculty member at Joint Forces Staff College, Norfolk, VA; Joint Special Operations University, Hurlburt AFB, FL; Marine Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA; and Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, KS. She has conducted three PKO workshops for military chaplains. She was a speaker at INTERHANDS II sponsored by SOCOM and Tulane University in April, 2002. In Spring 2000 and June 2002, she worked with NGOs in Sarajevo and MND(N) and sought feedback from US troops stationed at Camp Eagle on their training and experiences. In 7/01 she visited IOs and NGOs in Kosovo in preparation for training US KFOR troops. She served as an humanitarian assistance and public health SME at African Crisis Response Initiative (ACRI) brigade-level training with Senegalese military peacekeepers in Dakar, Senegal, 9-10/00, 7/01 and 10-11/02, with Kenyan military in Kenya 4/01,10/01 and 6/02, and revised the Medical Standard Operating Procedure.