Nora Ellen Groce is an anthropologist, global health expert and Director of the Disability Research Centre at University College London.
Her doctoral dissertation, published by Harvard University Press in 1985, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha’s Vineyard, is considered a classic work in the disability studies and ethnographic literatures.
[3] She joined the faculty of the Yale School of Public Health from 1991 to 2008, rising to the rank of associate professor.
[6] Author of over 250 journal articles, books and reports, she is a regular adviser for UN agencies, national governments and non-governmental organisations.
While a research scientist at Harvard she regularly taught medical anthropology and international health courses.