Dr Melissa Parker BA DPhil

Reader Medical Anthropology

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Background

I am a member of the Anthropology, Politics and Policy Group in the Department of Global Health and Development. My research builds on a multi-disciplinary training in Human Sciences and a DPhil (which combined methods and approaches current in social and biological anthropology) from Oxford University. Research questions have typically emerged from extensive periods of ethnographic fieldwork, and engage with global health policies and practice. Topics investigated include mental health and healing in war zones, health-related quality of life in Kenya, female circumcision in northern Sudan, HIV/AIDS and sexual networks in the UK, and biosocial approaches to the control of neglected tropical diseases in Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. In October 2014, I established the Ebola Response Anthropology Platform with colleagues from the Institute of Development Studies and the Universities of Sussex, Exeter and Njala, Sierra Leone.

Affiliation

• Department of Global Health and Development
• Faculty of Public Health and Policy

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Teaching

Melissa Parker teaches on the modules 'Principles in Social Research' and 'Medical Anthropology and Public Health'. She is a tutor on the MSc 'Public Health for Development' and has PhD students working on Biosocial Anthropology, Neglected Tropical Diseases and the impact of Ebola on health systems in West Africa.

Research

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

• Selected publications

• The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control INTRODUCTION

  Harper, I.; Parker, M.

  Medical Anthropology, 2014; 33(3):198-205

• De-politicizing parasites: reflections on attempts to control the control of neglected tropical diseases.

  Parker, M. ; Allen, T. ;

  Med Anthropol, 2014; 33(3):223-39

• Will mass drug administration eliminate lymphatic filariasis? Evidence from northern coastal Tanzania.

  Parker, M. ; Allen, T. ;

  J Biosoc Sci, 2013; 45(4):517-45

• Will increased funding for neglected tropical diseases really make poverty history?

  Allen, T. ; Parker, M. ;

  Lancet, 2012; 379(9821):1097-8; author reply 1098-100

• Does mass drug administration for the integrated treatment of neglected tropical diseases really work? Assessing evidence for the control of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in Uganda.

  Parker, M. ; Allen, T. ;

  Health Res Policy Syst, 2011; 9:3

• The "other diseases" of the Millennium Development Goals: rhetoric and reality of free drug distribution to cure the poor's parasites.

  Allen, T. ; Parker, M. ;

  Third World Q, 2011; 32(1):91-117

• Resisting control of neglected tropical diseases: dilemmas in the mass treatment of schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths in north-west Uganda.

  Parker, M. ; Allen, T. ; Hastings, J. ;

  J Biosoc Sci, 2008; 40(2):161-81

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