Nadine Beckmann
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
UK
Nadine is a medical anthropologist whose research has focused on HIV/AIDS, Islam, ethics and medical governance, collective action, sexual practice, and reproductive health. She has done ethnographic work in Tanzania and South Sudan and recently worked with a large population-based study on HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe, where she completed a study on rapid HIV testing. She was also working on a project on underlying reasons for ethnic disparities in maternal health outcomes. Before joining the United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSTMH), she taught anthropology at the University of Roehampton, development studies at the University of Leeds, and held research fellowships at Bradford University and the University of Oxford.