Dr Sandra Albert MBBS MD DNB

Research Degree Student Health Systems and Indigenous Medicine

DrPH student researching the role of indigenous traditional healers in healthcare in Meghalaya in northeast India

I taught dermatology and venereology at medical colleges in India for 10 years with clinical and research interests in blistering disorders and sexual and reproductive health. I was at the St John’s Institute of Dermatology, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK as a PN Berry Fellow and a Walter-Freudenthal Clinical Research Fellow from 2000-2002. 

I now work in Meghalaya, a state in northest India with indigenous peoples making up 85% of its population.

At present I am at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine on the Wellcome Trust capacity building programme (Future Faculty Programme) for the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI).

Affiliation

Research

I did the Organisational and Policy Analysis (OPA) Project, a part of the DrPH programme at the Foundation for the Revitalization of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT) in Bangalore, titled 'Change management in the development of an institution'.

My DrPH research is entitled 'Indigenous traditional healers in the healthcare system of Meghalaya' which seeks to develop a framework for engaging indigenous healers in the formal health care system in Meghalaya, northeast India. 

I am a co-investigator of a project titled 'Prioritisation, identification and mapping of medicinal plants used in the traditional medicine systems of the Khasi and Garo tribes of Meghalaya' which is funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India. 

I am an affiliated researcher of the project 'Engaging TCAM (Traditional, Complementary & Alternative Medical) providers in the delivery of essential health services' funded by the Wellocme Trust and PHFI. 

Research areas

  • Health care policy
  • Health inequalities
  • Health systems
  • Public health

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Medicine
  • Policy analysis

Other interests

  • Indigenous Health
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