Members of the network
Steering Committee
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
Rama Baru is a medical sociologist with research interests in health policy, commercialization of medical care, and inequalities and health. She has worked in India.
Carlo Caduff is a medical anthropologist with research interests in cancer and cancer care in the South. His research on the accessibility and affordability of oncology is based in India.
Berna Gerber is a speech-language therapist, senior lecturer and Head of Division of Speech-Language and Hearing Therapy at Stellenbosch University. She holds a MSc in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of Cape Town and a PhD in Philosophy from Stellenbosch University. Her research interests are in early life interventions, clinically as well as from a social medicine/health sciences perspective. She is particularly interested in questions of ethics regarding early life interventions, the social reality of young children and caregivers’ lives in majority world contexts, as well as culturally responsive and culturally safe interventions to young children and their families. She is also working in the field of health professions education, specifically on the role of the human and social sciences in health sciences curricula, and educating for culturally responsive health care delivery.
Jeremy Greene is a historian with research interests in twentieth century clinical medicine, pharmaceuticals, medical technology, global health and the history of disease.
University of Los Angeles, California (UCLA)
Helena Hansen is a psychiatrist-anthropologist and Professor and Chair of Research Theme in Translational Social Science and Health Equity at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Her research interests include faith healing of addiction in Puerto Rico, psychiatric disability under welfare reform, opioids and race, ethnic marketing of pharmaceuticals, and structural competency.
David Jones is a historian of medicine with research interests in heart disease, cardiac therapeutics, human subjects research, and the health effects of air pollution. He has worked in the United States and India.
Junko Kitanaka is a medical anthropologist with research interests in depression, suicide, mental health and psychiatry. She has worked in Japan.
Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies
Francisco Ortega is a philosopher with research interests in neurosciences, global mental health, autism and identity. He has worked in Brazil, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Michelle Pentecost has a dual training in clinical medicine (University of Cape Town) and medical anthropology (University of Oxford). She is based in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King’s College London and she holds honorary affiliations to the University of the Witwatersrand, and the Geneva Graduate Institute. Her primary research in South Africa is focused on the social science of early life interventions. She is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow (Cohort 4) and an NRF Y1 rated researcher. Michelle’s work has also received support from DFID, the Wellcome Trust and the British Academy. She has a longstanding interest in the role of the humanities and social sciences in health sciences education and is a founding member of the Health Professions Special Interest Group of the Medical and Health Humanities Africa Network.
Australian National University and University College London
Nikolas Rose is asocial and political theorist with research interests in bioscience, biomedicine, neuroscience, mental health, migration and megacities. He has worked in Europe, North America, Brazil and China. Following his retirement from King's College London he now has Honorary appointments at the Australian National University and University College London.
Members
Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in Health in the Department of History, with the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney.
Janina Kehr is a social anthropologist with a research focus on medical anthropology. She works on moral economies of medicine and public health in Europe. Since 2017 she is SNF-Ambizione Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Bern. She is currently pursuing her habilitation thesis on austerity medicine in Spain, where she is investigating public health infrastructures and care practices at the interface of debt economies, state bureaucracy and everyday experiences.
Harvard Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, and Harvard Medical School, and
Michelle Morse is a Soros Equality Fellow, Founding Co-Director, EqualHealth and Co-Founder, Social Medicine Consortium. She works to strengthen medical education globally, expand the teaching of social medicine in the US and abroad, and to support health systems strengthening through EqualHealth.
Affiliate: King's College London and Stellenbosch University
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Erica Nelson works at the Institute of Developmental Studies and the LSHTM Centre for History in Public Health. Her research interests include reproductive health, universal health coverage and healthcare systems, and primary healthcare services after the Alma-Ata declaration. She has worked on projects in Bolivia, Nicaragua, and Ecuador.
Ana Porroche-Escudero is a feminist medical anthropologist, academic-activist and health educator. Her scholarship has focused on women’s health, breast cancer and social inequality, sexual and reproductive health and rights, cancer education, methodology and community involvement in research and development.
Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST)
Dr. Gad Ruzaaza Ndaruhutse, oversees the Community Based Education Research and Service (COBERS) program in the Faculty of Medicine at Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST). His research domain is Higher Education Management, Rural Health, health services management and Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR). For his PhD he examined Community Based Education perspectives for health service delivery and how higher education can be poised to address health service delivery needs at community level. He has expertise in project design, implementation and evaluation, curriculum development, financial literacy & entrepreneurship and career mentorship.
Michael Westerhaus is a physician and anthropologist with research and teaching interests in the structural determination of health, building critical consciousness amongst health professionals, and the praxis and pedagogy of social medicine. He has worked in the United States and Uganda and serves on the Leadership Committee of EqualHealth.