Nadja VanGinneken MBChB MRCGP MPH BSc DTMH DCH DFFP
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Nadja is a general practitioner and researcher in international health. She has experience of research and project evaluations of community health projects in Senegal, South Africa and India. She has also lectured at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in international health and writes medico-legal reports for victims of torture seeking asylum. Her main area of interest in research is in community health workers and their sustainability and acceptability, using qualitative and historical methods.
Affiliation
Teaching
Nadja is currently a distance learning tutor on CT104: reviewing and reporting clinical trials.
Research
Nadja is undertaking a Wellcome Trust clinical PhD that explores the roles of non-specialist health workers in mental health care in low- and middle-income countries. The main focus of this will be in Karnataka, India. She is exploring the history of increasing mental health coverage through using primary and lay health workers, and the current roles these health workers play, both in the government and NGO sectors. This research is co-supervised by Professor Vikram Patel and Professor Virginia Berridge.
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Selected publications
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What can be learnt from historical analysis? Community health workers and health policy in South Africa. A response to van Rensburg, H.C.J., Wouters, E., and de Wet, K.'s critique (in this issue).
van Ginneken, N. ; Lewin, S. ; Berridge, V. ;
Soc Sci Med, 2011;
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The emergence of community health worker programmes in the late apartheid era in South Africa: An historical analysis.
van Ginneken, N.; Lewin, S.; Berridge, V.;
Soc Sci Med, 2010; 71(6):1110-8
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The three official language versions of the Declaration of Helsinki: what's lost in translation?
Carlson, R.V.; van Ginneken, N.H.; Pettigrew, L.M.; Davies, A.; Boyd, K.M.; Webb, D.J.
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2007; 33(9):545-8
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GPs should routinely screen for HIV
van Ginneken, N.H.; Doshi, M.
GP magazine, 2007; 20 July:28-9
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