1. Key Questions What is health? How do various methods illuminate and obfuscate measures of health? How does our work challenge or extend existing frameworks and theories? How does representation matter? What can our work and this region tell us about health and health practices more globally?

2. COMPARATIVE FRAME/ METHODS/ MEASUREMENT Post-Soviet Context: THE CHANGING INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT OF HEALTH (medicine, public health, economy, environment, etc.) RISK STRESS HEALTH Sources/ Resources Filters States Formal Institutions Social World Informal Networks Families/Communities “Capitals” (social, cultural, economic, symbolic) Gender Status Class Stratification Systems Age (?) knowledge, meaning, experience Issues Disabling and Enabling Facilitating/Discourage Units and Levels of Analysis

3. Groupings I.Strategies and Struggles Maggie, Sarah, Jill, Elena and Anna II.Vulnerabilities Adriana and Irina, Kevin, Ted, Khatuna, Erin III.Social Change/Differentiation Mark, Julie, Jennifer, Sergei

4. Emails Group One –Margaret.Paxson@wilsoncenter.orgMaggieMargaret.Paxson@wilsoncenter.org –jowcz2@uky.eduJilljowcz2@uky.edu –sadphill@indiana.eduSarahsadphill@indiana.edu –zdrav@socres.spb.ruElena and Annazdrav@socres.spb.ru –temkina1@mail.wplus.nettemkina1@mail.wplus.net Group Two –AdrianaBaban@Psychology.RoAdriana and IrinaAdrianaBaban@Psychology.Ro –Irina_Todorova@post.harvard.eduIrina_Todorova@post.harvard.edu –kevin.irwin@yale.eduKevinkevin.irwin@yale.edu –tgerber@ssc.wisc.eduTedtgerber@ssc.wisc.edu –khatuna@prc.utexas.eduKhatunakhatuna@prc.utexas.edu –ekoch@middlebury.edu Erin Group Three msorensen@unc.eduMarkmsorensen@unc.edu –jvbrown@uncg.eduJuliejvbrown@uncg.edu –jbb@mail.la.utexas.eduJenniferjbb@mail.la.utexas.edu –zakharsv@online.ruSergeizakharsv@online.ru,,