Dr Clare Chandler BA MSc PhD

Lecturer in Social Science

Clare Chandler holds the lead core social scientist post for the ACT Consortium, a group of 16 projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation that aim to improve the delivery of antimalarial drugs in Africa and Asia. She conducted her PhD at LSHTM on the influences on clinical decision making of health workers at district hospitals in northeast Tanzania, with a special interest in malaria overdiagnosis. She now works on operational research projects within the ACT Consortium using social science methods to design and evaluate interventions to improve access and targeting of antimalarial drugs in Africa and Asia.

Affiliation

Teaching

Organises and lectures on the Medical Anthropology module as well as lecturing and teaching on the Malaria Module, Principles of Social Research Module and the Applying Public Health Principles in Developing Countries module. She also tutors for the Public Health in Developing Countries MSc and the Public Health MSc.

Research

Her interests lie in the application of anthropological methods and critiques to the development and evaluation of complex interventions. Her fields of research are in public and private health care provider practices and community treatment seeking, particularly regarding access to antimalarial drugs and use of diagnostic technologies.

Research areas

  • Complex interventions
  • Diagnostics
  • Health services research
  • Malaria
  • Primary care

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Operational research

Other interests

  • Access To Medicines
  • Evaluation
  • MALARIA CENTRE
  • Interdisciplinary research
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