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Professor Kate Hampshire

Professor


Affiliations
Affiliation
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).
  • 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).

  • Using dogs to sniff out malaria in Gambia: proff of concept study (Gates Foundation funded, 2016-17, Co-I).

  • Developing national guidelines for mobile phone use in schools in Ghana and Malawi (Global Challenges Impact Acceleration Grant, 2016, Co-I)

  • Mobile phones and youth in Africa [Ghana, Malawi and South Africa] (DFID/ESRC funded, 2012-15, Co-I)

  • Children and mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa [Ghana, Malawi and South Africa] (DFID/ESRC-funded, 2006-10, Co-I)

  • 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

Publications

Authored book

Chapter in book

Edited book

Journal Article

Other (Print)

Supervision students