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Professor Ginny Bond

Professor of Anthropology Public Health

Zambart
Nationalist Road
50697 Lusaka
Zambia

Tel.
4420776127894

Based overseas at Zambart (an African research institute in Zambia and a LSHTM strategic partner), I am a social anthropologist with over 35 years of experience in the sub-Saharan African region (particularly Zambia and South Africa), and with expertise in health-related stigma research and interventions, social science in community randomised trials, infectious disease (TB, HIV, COVID-19) and a particular rapid qualitative methodology called 'Broad Brush Surveys' (BBS). I have contributed to the development of 'EquiPar'; a LSHTM developed equitable partnership tool, drawing on my experience and different roles in Zambart. I am currently engaging more in research capacity strengthening approaches, health systems approaches, climate change, digital health technology and safeguarding. 

Affiliations

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

Teaching

I have supervised 11 PhD students to successful completion and I am currently supervising 5 PhD students. PhD research to date has included: the role of AI and ultrasound in TB diagnostics, gender influences on nutrition, MDR-TB and cash transfers, gender differences in child stunting, HIV (men's role in vaginal microbicides, HIV management in couples and young women living with HIV in Zambia), STIs (ethnography of the management of STIs in a rural Zambia), TB (children's role in managing TB, TB and mental health), community engagement and ethics in CRTs, and, disability (disability groups, the impact of COVID-19 on people with disability). I supervise Master level students at LSHTM for projects on annual basis. I have led training linked to research studies on: academic writing skills; participatory research methods; Broad Brush Surveys; stigma and sexual behaviour research methods; child centred methodologies; household-surveys; study protocols; and ethics. I have helped develop adult education material on raising awareness and challenging HIV and TB stigma. I completed CILT 1 in June 2012. I am very committed to building social science capacity and promoting intra-disciplinary research in sub-Saharan Africa. I have been a MO on distance learning modules medical anthropology and research methods for health policy, often delivered sessions or lectures for the HIV, contributed to an infectious disease module (TB content), and am a marker on different modules. 

Research

Health-related stigma research and interventions (TB, HIV, disability, female schistosomiasis, COVID-19). Critical social science in community randomised trials. Qualitative rapid assessment of urban systems - Broad Brush Surveys (BBS) - to improve public health. Methodological approaches to working with children. Interdisciplinary research. Multi-country research. Water and sanitation. Equitable Partnerships. Climate change. Safeguarding. Research Capacity Strengthening. 

Research Area
Adolescent health
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Ethics
Global Health
Public health
Social and structural determinants of health
Water
Anthropology
Qualitative research
Climate change
Healthcare for adults with disabilities
Health systems
Sexual health
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Mental health
Schistosomiasis
Tuberculosis
Sexually transmitted infections
Disability
COVID-19
Country
Malawi
South Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
Ghana
Mozambique
Peru
Bolivia
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Latin America & Caribbean (developing only)

Selected Publications

How 'place' matters for addressing the HIV epidemic: evidence from the HPTN 071 (PopART) cluster-randomised controlled trial in Zambia and South Africa.
BOND, V; Hoddinott, G; Viljoen, L; Ngwenya, F; Simuyaba, M; Chiti, B; Ndubani, R; Makola, N; Donnell, D; SCHAAP, A; FLOYD, S; HARGREAVES, J; Shanaube, K; Fidler, S; Bock, P; AYLES, H; HAYES, R; Simwinga, M; SEELEY, J; HPTN071 (PopART) study team,;
2021
Trials
Universal HIV testing and treatment and HIV stigma reduction: a comparative thematic analysis of qualitative data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) trial in South Africa and Zambia.
Viljoen, L; BOND, VA; Reynolds, LJ; Mubekapi-Musadaidzwa, C; Baloyi, D; Ndubani, R; Stangl, A; SEELEY, J; PLIAKAS, T; Bock, P; Fidler, S; HAYES, R; AYLES, H; HARGREAVES, JR; Hoddinott, G; HPTN 071 (PopART) study team,;
2020
Sociology of Health & Illness
Secrets and Silence: Agency of Young Women Managing HIV Disclosure.
MACKWORTH-YOUNG, CR S; BOND, V; WRINGE, A;
2020
Medical Anthropology: cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Stigma and Judgment Toward People Living with HIV and Key Population Groups Among Three Cadres of Health Workers in South Africa and Zambia: Analysis of Data from the HPTN 071 (PopART) Trial.
KRISHNARATNE, S; BOND, V; Stangl, A; PLIAKAS, T; Mathema, H; Lilleston, P; Hoddinott, G; Bock, P; AYLES, H; Fidler, S; HARGREAVES, JR;
2020
AIDS patient care and STDs
Types of episodic disability among people living with HIV in Zambia.
Solomon, P; BOND, V; Cameron, C; Menon, JA; Maimbolwa, MC; Nixon, SA;
2019
AIDS Care
Value and Limitations of Broad Brush Surveys Used in Community-Randomized Trials in Southern Africa.
BOND, V; Ngwenya, F; Murray, E; Ngwenya, N; Viljoen, L; Gumede, D; Bwalya, C; Mantantana, J; Hoddinott, G; Dodd, PJ; AYLES, H; Simwinga, M; Wallman, S; SEELEY, J;
2018
Qualitative Health Research
"Being seen" at the clinic: Zambian and South African health worker reflections on the relationship between health facility spatial organisation and items and HIV stigma in 21 health facilities, the HPTN 071 (PopART) study.
BOND, V; Nomsenge, S; Mwamba, M; Ziba, D; Birch, A; Mubekapi-Musadaidzwa, C; Vanqa, N; Viljoen, L; PLIAKAS, T; AYLES, H; HARGREAVES, J; Hoddinott, G; Stangl, A; SEELEY, J; HPTN 071 (PopART) study team,;
2018
Health and Place
Understanding the Time Needed to Link to Care and Start ART in Seven HPTN 071 (PopART) Study Communities in Zambia and South Africa.
SEELEY, J; BOND, V; Yang, B; FLOYD, S; MACLEOD, D; Viljoen, L; PHIRI, M; Simuyaba, M; Hoddinott, G; Shanaube, K; Bwalya, C; De Villiers, L; Jennings, K; Mwanza, M; SCHAAP, A; Dunbar, R; SABAPATHY, K; AYLES, H; Bock, P; HAYES, R; Fidler, S; HPTN 071 (PopART) study team,;
2018
AIDS and behavior
Secondary analysis of tuberculosis stigma data from a cluster randomised trial in Zambia and South Africa (ZAMSTAR).
BOND, V; FLOYD, S; FENTY, J; SCHAAP, A; GODFREY-FAUSSETT, P; Claassens, M; Shanaube, K; AYLES, H; HARGREAVES, JR;
2017
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease
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