We study cultural ecologies of health to better understand the complex sociocultural systems that shape health-related beliefs and behaviors. Topics of study include beliefs and behaviors about noncommunicable disease, communicable disease (including HIV), and global pandemics (including COVID-19). We are also interested in digital healthcare delivery, primary health care systems, and the global health workforce (including frontline workers).
We also study perceptions of climate change, “infodemics”, and vaccine hesitancy. We currently have active social scientific research programs on maternal and child health, reproductive health, women’s health, the COVID-19 pandemic, and climate change. For example, we have studied community health workers and perinatal health in Bihar, India; traditional medicine in Belo Horizonte, Brazil; and HIV/AIDS in Gauteng, South Africa.
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