Prof Ginny Bond
Professor of Anthropology Public Health
Based at Zambart in Zambia, I am a social anthropologist conducting public health research on health-related stigma, community randomised trials, TB, HIV and COVID-19.
Affiliations
Department of Global Health and Development
Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Teaching
Module Organiser for DL module on Research Design and Methods for analysis of Global Health Policy. Contribute to TB module in DL MSc in Infectious Disease and the AIDS Study Unit. Contributed in past to Medical Anthropology modules (face to face and DL). I have supervised 10 PhD students to successful completion and I am currently supervising 4 PhD students. PhD research has included: MDR-TB and cash transfers, gender differences in child stunting, impact of COVID-19 on disability, 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 am currently a mentor for Musonda Simwinga through a EDCTP fellowship and mentor for a LSHTM staff member under the PHP mentor scheme. In Zambia and South Africa, 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 committed to building social science capacity in sub-Saharan Africa.
Research
Health-related stigma (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. Interdisciplinary research. Water and sanitation. Equitable Partnerships.
Research Area
Adolescent health
Clinical trials
Complex interventions
Ethics
Global Health
Public health
Social and structural determinants of health
Water
Anthropology
Qualitative research
Disease and Health Conditions
HIV/AIDS
Mental health
Schistosomiasis
Tuberculosis
Sexually transmitted infections
Country
Malawi
South Africa
Tanzania
Zambia
Region
Sub-Saharan Africa (all income levels)
Selected Publications
Secrets and Silence: Agency of Young Women Managing HIV Disclosure.
2020
Medical Anthropology: cross-cultural studies in health and illness
Value and Limitations of Broad Brush Surveys Used in Community-Randomized Trials in Southern Africa.
2018
Qualitative Health Research
Secondary analysis of tuberculosis stigma data from a cluster randomised trial in Zambia and South Africa (ZAMSTAR).
2017
The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease