Staff profile

I am a 3rd year PhD student in Anthropology at Durham University. My doctoral project, situated at the intersection of public health and social anthropology, seeks to investigate the process and practice of a health system at organising preparedness and response to an endemic disease, taking the case of Lassa Fever (a deadly rodent-borne viral haemorrhagic fever) in Nigeria and an ethnographic approach.

Prior to joining Durham University, I was a postdoc researcher in biocultural anthropology at Penn State University (USA), where my main project was a mixed-methods study on disease knowledge and healthcare-seeking behaviors in the context of Lassa fever disease in Nigeria. Before that, I earned an MD in Public Health and Social Medicine from Paris 7 University (France) and an MMSc in Global Health from Karolinska Institute (Sweden). My full academic background and work experience can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/metrey-tiv/

My research interests are centered on the determinants and obstacles of access to healthcare, individual experiences of health and ill health, and health policy. Ultimately, my goal is to use approaches at the intersection of public health and medical anthropology to help improve health policies and address health inequalities.

My leisure time is usually spent with friends and family, listening to and singing or playing music, rock climbing and doing yoga, challenging myself with baking, cooking, and craft projects.

• Medical Anthropology
• Global Health, Critical Public Health