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Dr Susan Nayiga

Research Fellow

United Kingdom

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+256 752 900 565

Susan is a Social Scientist with 18 years of experience working in infectious diseases and healthcare improvement research in Uganda. Susan is interested in the ways that health care is shaped by development ideologies amidst an emerging culture of opportunity and entrepreneurship. As a research fellow at LSHTM, Susan’s research focuses on the social and economic implications of living with a drug resistant infection in central Uganda. Susan’s PhD research was an ethnographic study of lives, livestock and livelihoods in rural Eastern Uganda aiming to understand how and why antimicrobials are deployed in everyday life in Uganda. Susan’s methodological expertise is in the use of qualitative methods and ethnography to study complex health related problems. Susan has led research teams and engaged in fieldwork in health care settings and in communities in urban, peri urban and rural Uganda. Susan has carried out research mainly in Uganda with brief research experience in Tanzania and Malawi.

Affiliations

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

Research

  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Medicine use with a focus on antimalarials and antibiotics
  • Health care improvement research
  • Infectious Diseases, treatment and prevention

 

Research Area
Social science (general)
Medical anthropology
AMR (Antimicrobial resistance)
Disease and Health Conditions
Malaria
Infectious diseases
Country
Uganda
Malawi
Tanzania
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)

Selected Publications

"Arming half-baked people with weapons!" Information enclaving among professionals and the need for a care-centred model for antibiotic use information in Uganda, Tanzania and Malawi.
NAYIGA, S; MacPherson, EE; Mankhomwa, J; Nasuwa, F; Pongolani, R; Kabuleta, R; Kesby, M; Dacombe, R; Hilton, S; Grace, D; Feasey, N; CHANDLER, CI R;
2024
Global health action
House modifications as a malaria control tool: how does local context shape participants' experience and interpretation in Uganda?
Kayendeke, M; Nabirye, C; NAYIGA, S; Westercamp, N; Gonahasa, S; Katureebe, A; Kamya, MR; Staedke, SG; HUTCHINSON, E;
2023
Malaria journal
Why Context Matters: Understanding Social and Behavioural Aspects of Antimicrobial Use and Resistance in Africa
Torres, NF; NAYIGA, S; Manderson, L;
2023
Antimicrobial Research and One Health in Africa
Pharmaceuticalised livelihoods: antibiotics and the rise of 'Quick Farming' in peri-urban Uganda.
Kayendeke, M; Denyer-Willis, L; NAYIGA, S; Nabirye, C; Fortané, N; Staedke, SG; CHANDLER, CI;
2023
Journal of biosocial science
Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa: A Case Study of Yaws and Syphilis in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda
Palanco Lopez, P; MANYAU, S; DIXON, J; MacPherson, E; NAYIGA, S; MANTON, J; Kirchhelle, C; CHANDLER, CI R;
2022
Medicine Anthropology Theory
Taking Opportunities, Taking Medicines: Antibiotic Use in Rural Eastern Uganda.
NAYIGA, S; Denyer Willis, L; STAEDKE, SG; CHANDLER, CI;
2022
Medical Anthropology
Marked reduction in antibiotic usage following intensive malaria control in a cohort of Ugandan children.
Krezanoski, PJ; Roh, ME; Rek, J; Nankabirwa, JI; Arinaitwe, E; STAEDKE, SG; NAYIGA, S; Hsiang, MS; Smith, D; Kamya, M; Dorsey, G;
2021
BMC medicine
Antibiotic stories: a mixed-methods, multi-country analysis of household antibiotic use in Malawi, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
DIXON, J; MacPherson, EE; NAYIGA, S; MANYAU, S; Nabirye, C; Kayendeke, M; Sanudi, E; Nkaombe, A; Mareke, P; Sitole, K; DE LIMA HUTCHISON, C; BRADLEY, J; YEUNG, S; FERRAND, RA; LAL, S; ROBERTS, C; Green, E; Denyer Willis, L; STAEDKE, SG; CHANDLER, CI R;
2021
BMJ Global Health
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