Dr Virginia Bond PhD

Lecturer

Based in Zambia, Ginny is a social anthropologist committed to addressing urgent public health problems through working within local systems and with an interdisciplinary approach. 

Ginny's first fieldwork was on refugees in South-West Uganda in 1987.  After working briefly in the AIDS Unit in the Panos Institute, since 1991, she has been based within research projects housed by the University of Zambia.  For over eight years, she worked on an interdisciplinary research project in rural Zambia funded by SAREC within which she conducted a PhD (University of Hull, UK) on the ability of rural Zambian households to manage adversity.  Since 1999, she has worked for LSHTM based at ZAMBART Project where she heads a social science unit.  A Director of ZAMBART Project since 2004, she also plays a key managerial role.  

Affiliation

Teaching

At LSHTM, Ginny is the Module Organiser for the Medical Anthropology in Public Health module within the DL MSc in Public Health.  She also contributes to the Tuberculosis module in DL MSc in Infectious Disease and has lectured within two LSHTM short courses - the AIDS Study Unit and Medical Anthropology.  She supervises three PhD students conducting research on: the role of community advisory boards in achievement community participation in clinical trials; barriers to the uptake of HIV testing and treatment in urban Zambia; the role of men in microbicides in Zambia.  She also frequently supervises Master students.  In Zambia, she has led training linked to research studies and has trained on: participatory research methods; stigma and sexual behaviour research methods; child centred methodologies; household-surveys; study protocols; and ethics.  She has also helped develop adult education material on raising awareness and challenging HIV and TB stigma.  She just recently completed CILT 1.  She is committed to building Zambian social science capacity.

Research

Ginny pursues mixed methods and interdisciplinary approaches to both public health and social issues, including working within clinical trials and conducting more short term operational research.  She has conducted ethnography on epidemics, including documenting the impact of and response to the HIV and TB epidemics in the Sub-Saharan African region.  Theoretically Ginny's aspirations are to continue to work on: the theory of local systems and how they influence public health interventions: stigma theory and methods related to health conditions; and the overlap between the TB and HIV epidemics and social protection.

 

 

Research areas

  • Clinical trials
  • Ethnography
  • Public health
  • Qualitative methods
  • Social and structural determinants of health

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Operational research

Disease and Health Conditions

  • HIV/AIDS
  • Infectious disease
  • Sexually transmitted disease
  • Tuberculosis

Regions

  • Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Countries

  • South Africa
  • Zambia

Other interests

  • Adherence
  • Antiretroviral Therapy
  • Crises
  • Disability And Rehabilitation
  • Disclosure Status
  • Ethnography Of Medical Research
  • Gender And Health
  • HIV Prevention
  • HIV Testing
  • HIV Treatment
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Marginalised Groups
  • Participatory Research
  • Poverty
  • Social Networks
  • Stigma
  • hunger
  • sexual behaviour
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