Ms Marjorie Pichon
Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom
I am a Research Fellow in the Gender Violence & Health Centre at LSHTM with over 8 years' experience conducting global public health research. Grounded in an intersectional feminist epistemology, my research is action oriented and aimed at informing intervention development, implementation and evaluation to prevent sexual exploitation of children and adolescents and intimate partner violence. I am particularly interested in how social norms interact with structural drivers to perpetuate these harmful behaviours, and how they can be used as a tool for prevention.
I am currently working on a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) radio drama and curricula intervention. LINEA targets the community to shift the social norms driving transactional sex between adolescent girls aged 13-15 years and men at least 5-10 years older in Mwanza, Tanzania. My PhD is embedded within the process evaluation of this trial, focusing on the mechanisms and pathways of change of the intervention, including narrativr transportation and diffusion of intervention key messages.
I also support a project exploring how to decolonise the field of violence against women and girls, and coordinate a collaboration exploring the role of infidelity and romantic jealousy on intimate partner violence. Prior to this position I supported the writing of evidence-based health policy reports at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. I hold an MSc in Public Health from LSHTM and a BA in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College. For my MSc dissertation I conducted a secondary qualitative analysis of parental communication about transactional sex in Uganda.
I am currently working on a cluster randomised controlled trial evaluating the Learning Initiative on Norms, Exploitation and Abuse (LINEA) radio drama and curricula intervention. LINEA targets the community to shift the social norms driving transactional sex between adolescent girls aged 13-15 years and men at least 5-10 years older in Mwanza, Tanzania. My PhD is embedded within the process evaluation of this trial, focusing on the mechanisms and pathways of change of the intervention, including narrativr transportation and diffusion of intervention key messages.
I also support a project exploring how to decolonise the field of violence against women and girls, and coordinate a collaboration exploring the role of infidelity and romantic jealousy on intimate partner violence. Prior to this position I supported the writing of evidence-based health policy reports at the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. I hold an MSc in Public Health from LSHTM and a BA in Psychology from Lewis & Clark College. For my MSc dissertation I conducted a secondary qualitative analysis of parental communication about transactional sex in Uganda.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
Marjorie is a lecturer and seminar leader for the Foundations in Health Promotion module, and supports the short course on Researching Gender-Based Violence: Methods and Meaning.
Research
Marjorie's research interests lie at the intersection of social norms, gender-based inequalities, violence against women and girls, and sexual and reproductive health and wellbeing. She is particularly intersted in understanding why and how interventions do or do not work.
Research Area
Adolescent health
Behaviour change
Gender
Global Health
Social and structural determinants of health
Systematic reviews
Violence
Qualitative research
Sexual health
Health inequalities
Mixed methods research
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Sexually transmitted infections
Country
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Tanzania
Uganda
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
World
Selected Publications
Decolonising the field of violence against women and girls: A scoping review and recommendations for research and programming.
2024
Social Science & Medicine
Focus group discussions with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Longitudinal in-depth interview data with adolescent girls and their caregivers evaluating a radio drama aimed at changing the social norms driving age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania
2024
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
A mixed-methods, exploratory, quasi-experimental evaluation of a radio drama intervention to prevent age-disparate transactional sex in Tanzania.
2022
Frontiers in Reproductive Health
Displacement, Polygyny, Romantic Jealousy, and Intimate Partner Violence: A Qualitative Study among Somali Refugees in Ethiopia.
2022
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
The role of gender and romantic jealousy in intimate partner violence against women, a mixed-methods study in Northern Ecuador.
2022
Culture, Health & Sexuality