Justin Parkhurst BS MPhil DPhil
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I am a multidisciplinary social scientist with primary interst in policy analysis, including the application of political and sociological concepts to health care use and health policy making. I have an M.Phil in Development Studies and a D.Phil. in Sociology and Social Policy from the University of Oxford (as well as an under-utilised BS in Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania). Most of my current work is focused on Getting Research into Policy (GRIP) in health and the social/structural aspects of HIV/AIDS, primarily in Africa. I also am a member of the London International Development Centre.
Affiliation
Teaching
Course Director - MSc in Global Health Policy (by Distance Learning)
'Health Policy Process and Power' - Lecturer, seminar leader, and module organiser
Additional lectures delivered on modules: AIDS, and Control of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, as well as on the DrPH programme.
Past guest lectures and seminars given at Imperial College London, University College London,University of Oxford, Institute for Tropical Medicine (Antwerp), and the Makerere University School of Public Health.
Supervision of PhD, and DrPH students.
Research
Primary research interests:
- HIV/AIDS prevention and policy - in particular in low income settings.
- The use of evidence in policy realms, particularly how ideologies shape and interpret evidence, with consequent impacts on policy discourse and policy ideas.
- Social and structural drivers of HIV risk and vulnerability, including the relationships between poverty, wealth, and HIV infection.
Past Research work: Maternal Health, including behaviour and decision making for use of services.
Current ares of work (including for supervision of PhD/DrPH students*):
- structural drivers of HIV, and structural interventions for the prevention of HIV - theories, policies, and effectiveness;
- HIV prevention policy analysis;
- the use of research in policy, and the understandings and political uses of 'evidence'.
I will be launching a new European Research Council (ERC) supported research programme on Getting Research Into Policy in Health (GRIP-Health) in January 2012.
*Note - I tend to accept one PhD/DrPH student per year, and have a preference for candidates with a strong academic background in the social sciences (sociology, political science, social policy, development studies, etc.)
Research areas
- Health policy
- HIV/AIDS
- Research : policy relationship
- Social and structural determinants of health
Disciplines
- Policy analysis
- Political science
- Sociology
Other interests
- Africa
- HIV Prevention
- MARCH
- Multidisciplinary
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Selected publications
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Getting research into policy, or out of practice, in HIV?
Parkhurst, J.; Weller, I.; Kemp, J.;
Lancet, 2010; 375(9724):1414-5
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Understanding the correlations between wealth, poverty and human immunodeficiency virus infection in African countries.
Parkhurst, J.O.;
Bull World Health Organ, 2010; 88(7):519-26
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"What Worked?": The Evidence Challenges in Determining the Causes of HIV Prevalence Decline.
Parkhurst, J.O.;
AIDS Educ Prev, 2008; 20(3):275-83
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Structural approaches to HIV prevention.
Gupta, G.R.; Parkhurst, J.O.; Ogden, J.A.; Aggleton, P.; Mahal, A.;
Lancet, 2008; 372(9640):764-75
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Life saving or money wasting? Perceptions of caesarean sections among users of services in rural Bangladesh.
Parkhurst, J.O.; Rahman, S.A.;
Health Policy, 2006; 80(3):392-401
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The political environment of HIV: lessons from a comparison of Uganda and South Africa.
Parkhurst, J.O.; Lush, L.;
Soc Sci Med, 2004; 59(9):1913-24
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The Ugandan success story? Evidence and claims of HIV-1 prevention
Parkhurst, J. O.
Lancet, 2002; 360(9326):78-80
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The crisis of AIDS and the politics of response: the case of Uganda
Parkhurst, J.
International Relations, 2001; 15(6):69-87
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