Dr Anna Chavez
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
a.chavez@exeter.ac.uk
Amory
Amory Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4RJ , UK
Overview
I am currently working part time on the Evaluating community-led interventions to maximise the health and well-being of climate change adaptations for extreme events project in the Department of Geography at Exeter University. I am a medical anthropologist with research interests in climate change adaptations, global mental health, green spaces and health, sickle cell disease and trait, infant health, energy poverty and thermoregulation. I also currently working part time as a research fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on the SUCCEED Africa project which is a research consortium taking a bottom-up approach to investigate what works for people with psychosis in their communities in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Sierra Leone and Nigeria. I also help support the Mental Health Innovation Network. Previously I have worked on research into improving health systems responsiveness for vulnerable groups in Ghana and Vietnam using realist methodologies, medicines pricing policies in sub-Saharan Africa, nature and health, fuel poverty and sickle cell disease.
Broad research specialisms:
Methods: Anthropology, qualitative methods, evidence synthesis.
Populations: UK, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam, Panama
Qualifications
PhD Medical Anthropology (Durham)
MSc Health Education and Health Promotion (Edinburgh)
MA (Hons) Social Anthropology (Edinburgh)
Research
Research interests
Topics: energy poverty, thermoregulation, climate adaptations, mental health, nature and health, sickle cell, planetary health, public health
Methods: Anthropology, qualitative methods, evidence synthesis
Populations: UK, Guatemala, Sierra Leone, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana, Vietnam, Panama
Research Groups:
- Environment and Sustainability Research Group
- University of Exeter Africa interest group
- University of Exeter Latin America Network
Research projects
Evaluating community-led interventions to maximise the health and well-being of climate change adaptations for extreme events
External Responsibilities
- Research Fellow for SUCCEED Africa Project at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Ethics advisor Save the Children UK/International
