Staff profile
| Affiliation |
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| Professor in the Department of Anthropology |
| 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. She is a medical anthropologist and has been conducting fieldwork on health and well-being, mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa, since the mid-1990s.
Her current and recent projects include:
- Using Behavioural Game Theory and Ethnography to research health-related trust problems, with particular reference to pharmaceutical supply chains in Ghana and Tanzania (Wellcome Trust Funded, 2016-17, PI).
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Building an evidence base to support and enhance community health workers’ (informal) use of mobile phones in Ghana, Malawi and Ethiopia (MRC funded, 2017-18, PI).
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Using dogs to sniff out malaria in Gambia: proff of concept study (Gates Foundation funded, 2016-17, Co-I).
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Developing national guidelines for mobile phone use in schools in Ghana and Malawi (Global Challenges Impact Acceleration Grant, 2016, Co-I)
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Mobile phones and youth in Africa [Ghana, Malawi and South Africa] (DFID/ESRC funded, 2012-15, Co-I)
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Children and mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa [Ghana, Malawi and South Africa] (DFID/ESRC-funded, 2006-10, Co-I)
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Child mobility in Ghana: moving forward (Leverhulme, 2009-10, PI)
- Infertility among British Pakistanis (ESRC-funded, 2006-10, CI)
Research interests
- Critical medical anthropology
- Sub-Saharan Africa (especially West Africa)
- child and adolescent health
- digital technologies and health
- livelihoods, poverty and food security
- pastoralists and other mobile populations
- pharmaceuticals and other medicines
- trust, uncertainty and risk