Lawrence Hammar is a cultural-medical anthropologist who has worked extensively in Papua New Guinea since 1988. He has many interests in gender studies, ethnography, qualitative research methods, and HIV and AIDS. He worked alongside Papua New Guinean colleagues from 2003–2006 during a nationwide study of HIV, AIDS, STDs, and sexual health and behaviour. This summer he worked in Suva, Fiji, leading a project, "Positive Research for Positive People," during which he trained Fijians in the rudiments of qualitative research methods and then, with them, conducted formative research about intimate partner transmission of HIV.