Rapid Cultural Learning Institute (May 2001)
CuSAG was ask to provide a workshop on rapid cultural learning to an audience of U.S. Marines responsible for guarding U.S. embassies in countries around the world.

Integrating Traditional and Western Medical Systems (July 1996)
For the National Council of International Health (NCIH), CuSAG conducted focus discussion groups with African and American traditional healers as part of a larger two-day workshop on "Traditional Healing and AIDS." CuSAG’s discussion explored the positive aspects and the difficulties that traditional healers experienced working with western trained health professionals, as well as issues related to their methods, training, identity, and power relationships vis-à-vis western-trained health professionals.

Finnish Lectures on CuSAG’s Research Activities (1993)
CuSAG’s director, Tony Whitehead, was invited to Finland for a month to give lectures around the country on CuSAG’s urban and food and culture research.

The Cultural Ecology of Food (1990-92)
CuSAG secured cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to support a Ghanaian nutrition scholar in conducting "African Continuities in African-American Foodways on the Sea Island of South Carolina and Georgia". The CuSAG team expanded this work with more intensive ethnography in South Carolina using participant observation, FGIs, and ethnographic interviews with elderly residents. University links were also created between UMCP and the University of Ghana at Legon for future research possibilities in West Africa. Furthermore, talks were carried out with the Avery Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston and with the Penn Center of Frogmore, South Carolina regarding the possibility of future collaboration in the Sea Islands.

International Conference on Food and Culture (1990)
The Wenner Gren Foundation funded CuSAG to host an international conference on food and culture. Participants included scholars from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and North America.

Evaluation for Success (1990)
An alliance of American foundations providing support to various health and social organizations in South Africa invited CuSAG Director Tony Whitehead to provide them with ideas on how they might design an evaluation model for these programs, highlighting successes, rather than being dominated with failures like most evaluation approaches at that time seemed to be. Later that year CuSAG was invited to submit a proposal by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to evaluate its leadership training program oriented towards training South Africans for health and social infrastructural leadership positions in the inevitable post-apartheid period. Even though CuSAG was one of the two finalists competing for the contract, as a completely new organization, CuSAG was not considered to have the sufficient track record to assure the completion of the work. However, this experience provided some of the impetus for CuSAG’s later work in evaluation, and the evolution of its Ethnographic Assessment and Evaluation System (EAES).