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Professor in the Department of Anthropology+44 (0) 191 33 43313
Fellow of the Global Policy Institute Journal
Fellow of the Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Biography

Kate Hampshire is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. Most of her work since the 1990s has been on health and healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on the informal trade in pharmaceuticals and "informal mHealth". She is currently PI on a trial to support community health workers' informal use of mobile phones in Ghana, Ethiopia and Malawi, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. Kate works closely with a number of international organisations to help foreground equity within global health policy and practice. She is currently working with the World Health Organization, undertaking research to provide evidence-based guidelines on public communication campaigns around the risks of substandard and falsified medicines. Finally (for something completely different...), Kate has recently re-trained as a tree surgeon and is currently writing a book on the relationships between people, chainsaws and trees that inhere in the act of cutting living wood.

Research interests

  • Critical medical anthropology
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Digital technologies and health
  • Pharmaceuticals and other medicines
  • Trust, uncertainty and risk
  • Tree work and multispecies livelihoods

Publications

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Other (Print)

  • Evaluate and evolve.
    Brown, D., Napthine, D., & Hampshire, K. (2010). Evaluate and evolve (pp. 6-7). Arts Professional.

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