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I studied cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where I received my PhD in 1989. After carrying out ethnographic studies on food taboos during pregnancy in India, local explanations of illness and misfortune (in particular relating to kwashiorkor) in Cameroon, and euthanasia decision-making in a hospital in the Netherlands, I spent eight years in Tanzania and Uganda carrying out research relating to HIV/AIDS. This was followed by five years as senior lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where I taught medical anthropology and carried out research on the sociocultural aspects of malaria in Tanzania, The Gambia and Mozambique. From 2006-2013 I was research professor in medical anthropology at the Barcelona Centre for International Health Research (CRESIB), where I led two large multinational projects involving research in several African countries and Papua New Guinea on the sociocultural aspects of malaria prevention in infants and during pregnancy, both part of large multi-disciplinary collaborations. I also coordinated the social science component of an international programme to develop and test vaginal microbicides for HIV prevention.
I joined the University of Amsterdam in 2010 as Professor of Social Science and Global Health and co-director of the Centre for Social Science and Global Health. From 2014-2015 I directed the Health, Care and the Body Research Programme Group and from 2015-2018 I was the head of the Anthropology Department. Between 2013 and 2018 I was also director of the Long-Term Care Partnership, a collaborative programme bringing together academic researchers, care providers and policy makers. Recently completed research projects have focused on migration and health, developing sustainable community resources for health in Uganda, and community engagement for malaria elimination in Haiti.
In January 2020 I reduced my university appointment and launched Anthropology in Health Research, an independent research consultancy.
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Collaborators Collaboratingpp.61-85, (2022)
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illnesspp.177-212, (2020)
The International Encyclopedia of Anthropologypp.1-3, (2018)
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#Papers: 159
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H-Index: 45
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