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Current research related to Medical Anthropology in the department draws from a broad field of expertise that foregrounds social, cultural, psychological, and biological perspectives and includes:

Blog Editor, Sexual & Reproductive Health, Race, Citizenship, Quechua Indigenous, Migration, Peru, Venezuela, Latin America (Rebecca Irons)
Health Behaviour, Migration and Reproductive Decision Making in Rural Africa (Sara Randall)
Science and Medicine of Immunology and Personhood in South East Asia (David Napier)
Psychiatry and Medicine in Caribbean, Albania and Britain (Roland Littlewood)
Genomic Knowledge/Technologies, Biosocialities and Cancer in, UK, Cuba and Brazil (Sahra Gibbon)
The anthropology of ethics and mindfulness-based therapy in the UK & Thailand (Joanna Cook)
Healing Rituals and Psychiatric Care among the Navajos and in Bhutan; Patients’ Experiences of Treatment and the Culture of Medicine in the US and UK (Joseph Calabrese)
The anthropology of ethics, intimacy, and the body amongst women in Somaliland (Caroline Ackley)
Health behaviour and behaviour change through the use of participatory visual methodologies (Dalia Iskander)
Health and human development in sub-Saharan Africa; focussing on the health implications of mass schooling, forced migration, and food and water insecurity (Edward ‘Jed’ Stevenson)
Identity constructions in the United Arab Emirates, new techniques in self-described cyborg technology in Europe (Aaron Parkhurst)
Christian and other religious conceptions and experiences of embodiment in China and Taiwan, Teaching Fellow in Medical and Social Anthropology (Gareth Breen)
The anthropology of ageing, care, and loneliness in the US and UK, Teaching Fellow in Biosocial Medical Anthropology (Carrie Ryan)