The Expert is a medical anthropologist with expertise in development and global health in Africa, especially Zambia. He has over 8 years of experience in conducting research, using qualitative research methods. He has collaborated and conducted research with policymakers and academics in Africa, the UK and Norway. His research has ethnographically examined the social and political effects of a range of different health interventions in Zambia. He has published articles in Social Science & Medicine, Critical Public Health, Critique of Anthropology, and History and Anthropology.
Likelihood of destitution or homelessness; ethnic, religious, or tribal discrimination or persecution; risk of torture or political persecution; risk from state actors, risk from non-state actors; risk of retaliation; sufficiency of protection; possibility of safe internal relocation; healthcare access; health systems capacity; mental illness; HIV/AIDS; specialized medical services; access to care for infectious diseases; disability
Previous experience with UK-based expert testimonies regarding chronic illnesses/disabilities and risk of return.
2022 Promising careers? A critical analysis of a randomised control trial in community health worker recruitment in Zambia. Social Science & Medicine.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114412
2021 Who alone can ‘see’? Christian humanitarianism, aspect-perception, and political critique. Critique of Anthropology.
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0308275X211021658
2021 Outsourcing sovereignty: global health partnerships and the state in Zambia.
Critical Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.1945535
2020 Speaking with vampires and angels: the ambivalent afterlives of Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia. History and Anthropology 31 (2): 217-235