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
21/01/2022Antibiotic Stewardship in Retail Pharmacies and the Access-Excess Challenge in China
Antibiotics
Antibiotic Use and Bacterial Infection in COVID-19 Patients in the Second Phase of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
Antibiotics
Cluster randomised controlled trial to assess a tailored intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing in rural China
BMJ Open
Exploring the impact of shielding advice on the wellbeing of individuals identified as clinically extremely vulnerable amid the COVID-19 pandemic
BMC Public Health
Identifying key influences on antibiotic use in China: a systematic scoping review and narrative synthesis
BMJ Open
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