Professor Helen Lambert
D.Phil., D.Phil.(Oxon.)
Current positions
Professor of Medical Anthropology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am interested in the application of anthropological perspectives to a range of public health issues. These include:
Anthropological and interdisciplinary research on antimicrobial resistance
HIV prevention and sexual health in vulnerable communities in South Asia, with a particular focus on sex work
Popular understandings of health, illness and therapy
Non-biomedical therapeutic traditions in India within and outside the formal health sector
Social and cultural dimensions of health systems
Lay understandings of suicide and suicide prevention in social and kinship networks
The role of ethnographic and other forms of qualitative research evidence in the formulation and evaluation of public health interventions
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Resolving the fate and studying the impact of pharmaceutical wastes on the environment and local community of a pharmaceutical manufacturing hub
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/10/2020 to 31/07/2023
COVID-19: A mixed-methods evaluation of advice on isolation and health-seeking to contain transmission
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
30/03/2020 to 31/12/2021
COVID-19: A mixed-methods evaluation of advice on isolation and health-seeking to contain transmission
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
30/03/2020 to 29/09/2021
Addressing antimicrobial resistance as a global public health issue in settings of precarity
Principal Investigator
Description
This proposal addresses the combined challenges of equitable access to sustainable development, especially SDG3 health and wellbeing, and human rights and social justice, through a focus on antimicrobial resistance (AMR)…Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/03/2020 to 31/07/2020
UK-China AMR Partnerships Initiative
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2019 to 31/03/2023
Publications
Recent publications
14/09/2023Facing uncertainty
How to Live Through a Pandemic
Antibiotic governance and use on commercial and smallholder farms in eastern China
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
Antibiotics in Catalan Primary Care
Medical Anthropology
A survey of patient and public perceptions and awareness of SARS-CoV-2-related risks among participants in India and South Africa
PLoS Global Public Health
Influences on treatment-seeking and antibiotic use for common illnesses in eastern China
BMC Public Health
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Professor Matthew Hickman
Professor in Public Health and Epidemiology
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Christie Cabral
Senior Lecturer
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Professor Lucy Yardley
Professor
School of Psychological Science
Dr Wenjuan Cong
UK-China AMR Hub Research Fellow
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Dr Tingting Zhang
Senior Research Associate
Bristol Medical School (PHS)