Dr Marco Liverani MSc PhD

Research Fellow

I am a social scientist with postgraduate training in social anthropology (MSc, University College London) and a PhD in sociology (University of Exeter, College of Social Sciences and International Studies). My doctoral thesis focused on EU research policies, and their influence on the culture of science and the practice of scientific cooperation in biomedical research.

I have been working at LSHTM since 2010. In 2012 I joined the Politics and Policy Group (PPG) to be involved in a project which examines the political and institutional contexts for the uptake of evidence-based research into health policy (GRIP health).

Before joining PPG, I worked with the Communicable Diseases Policy Research Group (CDPRG), based at Mahidol University in Bangkok, Thailand, where I conducted research on the political economy of emerging diseases in the Mekong Region, avian influenza H5N1 in Cambodia and Laos, and ASEAN's regional programmes for infectious disease prevention and control.

Affiliation

Teaching

I am a tutor for the distance learning modules 'Globalisation and health' and 'The politics of global health policy'.

Research

My current interests include health research policy and knowledge transfer, the political economy of emerging diseases, health and development in Southeast Asia, and risk analysis. I am particularly interested in comparative analysis of health governance/policy frameworks, both at the national and regional level. I am also interested in methodological issues in the social sciences (especially the integration of quantitative and qualitative approaches) and theoretical questions of inter-disciplinarity.

Research areas

  • Health policy
  • Health systems
  • Infectious disease policy
  • Science policy

Disciplines

  • Anthropology
  • Development studies
  • Policy analysis
  • Political science
  • Sociology
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