Professor Kate Hampshire

Biography	Kate Hampshire is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. Most of her work since the 1990s has been on health and healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on the informal trade in pharmaceuticals and "informal mHealth". She is currently PI on a trial to support community health workers' informal use of mobile phones in Ghana, Ethiopia and Malawi, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. Kate works closely with a number of international organisations to help foreground equity within global health policy and practice. She is currently working with the World Health Organization, undertaking research to provide evidence-based guidelines on public communication campaigns around the risks of substandard and falsified medicines. Finally (for something completely different), Kate has recently re-trained as a tree surgeon and is currently writing a book on the relationships between people, chainsaws and trees that inhere in the act of cutting living wood.
Research Interests	Critical medical anthropology Sub-Saharan Africa Digital technologies and health Pharmaceuticals and other medicines Trust, uncertainty and risk Tree work and multispecies livelihoods

Biography

Kate Hampshire is a Professor in the Anthropology Department at Durham University. Most of her work since the 1990s has been on health and healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa, including on the informal trade in pharmaceuticals and "informal mHealth". She is currently PI on a trial to support community health workers' informal use of mobile phones in Ghana, Ethiopia and Malawi, funded by the UK's Medical Research Council. Kate works closely with a number of international organisations to help foreground equity within global health policy and practice. She is currently working with the World Health Organization, undertaking research to provide evidence-based guidelines on public communication campaigns around the risks of substandard and falsified medicines. Finally (for something completely different), Kate has recently re-trained as a tree surgeon and is currently writing a book on the relationships between people, chainsaws and trees that inhere in the act of cutting living wood.

Research Interests

Critical medical anthropology
Sub-Saharan Africa
Digital technologies and health
Pharmaceuticals and other medicines
Trust, uncertainty and risk
Tree work and multispecies livelihoods