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
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
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 31/03/2022
UK-China AMR Partnerships Initiative
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2019 to 31/03/2022
Publications
Recent publications
02/03/2021The impact of COVID-19 on primary health care and antibiotic prescribing in rural China: qualitative study
Antimicrobial Use in COVID-19 Patients in the First Phase of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Antibiotics
Clinical diagnosis and treatment of common respiratory tract infections in relation to microbiological profiles in rural health facilities in China
BMC Family Practice
Experiences of the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) pandemic from the perspectives of young people
Public Health in Practice
One Health drivers of antibacterial resistance
One Health
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