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Melissa Parker

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ID3581979
NOMBREMelissa Parker
NOMBRESMelissa
APELLIDOParker
FIRMAPARKER M
AFILIACIONESLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
ORCID0000-0003-0829-2741
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS57
TOTAL DE CITAS188
TOTAL COMO AUTOR56
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1992
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H7
  • Pandemic futures, future preparedness

    Open Access•Hayley Macgregor, Macedward Leach et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2026

    The deliberations for the Pandemic Accord have opened an important moment of reflection on future approaches to pandemic preparedness. The concept had been increasingly prominent in global health discourse for several years before the pandemic and had concretised into a set of standardised mainstream approaches to the prediction of threats. Since 2019, the authors and the wider research team have led a research project on the meanings and practic…

  • Does epidemiological evidence support the success story of Uganda’s response to Covid-19

    Open Access•Nicolas Laing, Sophie Mylan et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2026

    Uganda has received praise for its success in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. This opinion piece uses publically available data from Johns Hopkins University to suggest that it is far from clear whether the Public Health and Social Measures (PHSM) introduced in Uganda influenced the course of the first outbreak. In addition, the analysis of data from the second and third waves in Uganda suggest that government action had little or no effect o…

  • Shifting power in pandemics

    Open Access•Macedward Leach, Melissa Leach et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2026

    What can be learned about pandemic preparedness from greater attention to perspectives of people who live in regions labelled as ‘hotspots’ for disease outbreaks? And how might such attention require us to reconfigure science, policy, and practice – as part of a broader shifting of power in pandemics? These are the questions that motivate and are explored through the papers in this special issue on pandemic preparedness, for which this paper serv…

  • Reimagining school-university partnerships in physical education

    Open Access•Luiza Lana Gonçalves, Kamila Santos Silva et al.•ARTICLE•Physical Education and Sport…•2025

    Background: An established body of research illuminates the benefits of school-university partnerships as opportunities for teachers’ professional development. Concomitantly, studies highlight power imbalances between schools and universities, challenges may form from the hierarchical structures within those partnerships. Consequently, it remains necessary to consider partnerships that foster democratic and collective agency amongst all actors in…

  • Becoming activist teacher educators

    Open Access•Luiza Lana Gonçalves, Leonardo Liziero et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 6

    Since the late 20th century, school–university partnerships have been promoted as collaborative efforts in teacher education. Traditionally, in such partnerships, university teacher educators oversaw cooperating teachers who supervised pre-service teachers (PSTs) in a hierarchical structure. In parallel with a growing movement for teacher educators to adopt activist roles challenging societal oppressions, recent shifts have recognised cooperating…

  • Did Covid-19 vaccine enforcement work? Evidence from northwestern and northern Uganda

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Bob Okello et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2025•Referencias: 38

    During the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccination programmes were shaped by diverse approaches to enforcement. Yet, little is known about how public authority influenced modes of enforcement on the ground or their ramifications for governance and public health more broadly. This article focuses on the Ugandan mandatory COVID-19 vaccination programme in two contrasting geographical and socio-political spaces: rural Dei and peri-urban Gulu. Ethnographic an…

  • In the line of duty

    Open Access•T Allen, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Global Policy•2024

    The deployment of soldiers for epidemic control in Africa has become more acceptable, even when human rights violations occur. This article outlines how this situation has arisen, foregrounding overlapping processes since the 1990s and the implications of Security Council Resolution 2177. It then explores effects with reference to Sierra Leone and Uganda. Drawing on long‐term fieldwork, it discusses militarised epidemic control programmes during …

  • Lessons learned teaching social and emotional learning in physical education teacher education

    Cassandra Iannucci, Kevin Patton et al.•ARTICLE•Physical Education and Sport…•2024

    Background Social and emotional learning (SEL) has emerged as a political and educational priority worldwide. Numerous academic and non-academic benefits of effective (well-designed and well-implemented) SEL programmes within educational contexts exist. Not surprisingly, SEL has been acknowledged as one of the most prioritised educational agendas to support students’ holistic growth and success across different subjects in schools, health and phy…

  • Did aid to the Ebola crisis divert aid for reproductive, maternal, and newborn health? An analysis of donor-reported data in Sierra Leone

    Open Access•Susannah H Mayhew, Kirkley Doyle et al.•ARTICLE•Conflict and Health•2024

    Modest changes to RMNH donor aid patterns are insufficient to explain the severe decline in RMNH indicators recorded during the outbreak. Our findings therefore suggest the need for substantial increases in routine aid to ensure that basic RMNH services and infrastructure are strong before an epidemic occurs, as well as increased aid for RMNH during epidemics like Ebola and Covid-19, if reproductive, maternal and newborn healthcare is to be maint…

  • Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go

    Open Access•Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 3

    Primary physical education lags behind student voice developments in research and practice internationally ( Gillett-Swan and Baroutsis, 2023 ) and in post-primary physical education ( Howley and O'Sullivan, 2021 ; Iannucci and Parker, 2022a ). Furthermore, evidence is lacking on how to guide primary teachers learning to implement student voice pedagogies in physical education successfully. This research begins to fill this gap by focusing on the…

  • The purpose of primary physical education

    Open Access•Mike Jess, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 6

    This paper reports on the first phase of a longitudinal project investigating the perceived purposes that different stakeholders have for primary physical education (PE). In the study, the views of 19 teacher educators from seven countries across Europe were sought. While teacher educators may have some influence across the layers of an education system, little is known about this stakeholder group and their views about primary PE. Analysis of fo…

  • Shifting the dynamics

    Open Access•Cristin A Fergus, Bono E Ozunga et al.•ARTICLE•BMJ Global Health•2022

    Introduction The integration of more diverse perspectives into the development of evidence for decision-making has been elusive, despite years of rhetoric to the contrary. This has led to cycles of population-based health interventions which have not delivered the promised results. The WHO most recently set a target for schistosomiasis elimination by 2030 and called for cross-cutting approaches to be driven by endemic countries themselves. The ex…

  • ‘We united to defend ourselves and face our struggles’

    Luiza Lana Gonçalves, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•Physical Education and Sport…•2022

    Background: Physical Education (PE) teachers around the world often struggle with different experiences of precarity such as job insecurity, high workloads, lack of infrastructure in schools, and others. Communities of practice (CoP) are recognised as an important democratic strategy for teachers’ continuing professional development (CPD). A democratic CoP seeks to promote spaces where teachers can empower themselves by taking risks and collectiv…

  • Beyond Lip Service

    Cassandra Iannucci, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Physical Education…•2022

    The purpose of this article is to discuss student voice as a meaningful pedagogical practice in elementary physical education to promote student agency and learning. Four questions are answered: What is student voice? How can authentic student voice be accessed? How and where might student voice be enacted in practice? And, how can student voice be listened and responded to inform our practice? Scaffolded strategies that can be implemented in pra…

  • Open science communication

    Open Access•Martin Mckee, Danny Altmann et al.•ARTICLE•Health Policy•2022

    The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the complex relationship between science and policy. Policymakers have had to make decisions at speed in conditions of uncertainty, implementing policies that have had profound consequences for people's lives. Yet this process has sometimes been characterised by fragmentation, opacity and a disconnect between evidence and policy. In the United Kingdom, concerns about the secrecy that initially surrounded…

  • Learning communities and physical education professional development

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Kevin Patton et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2022

    Learning communities (LCs) in a variety of formats are touted as an effective strategy for continuing professional development (CPD) in physical education. This study’s purpose was to provide an overview of the research on LCs in physical education for professional development between 1990 and 2020. A scoping review undergirded the research process and search parameters included full-text empirical studies in 12 languages. Ultimately 95 studies w…

  • Negotiating Intersecting Precarities

    Open Access•Hayley Macgregor, Macedward Leach et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2022•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 23

    This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of COVID-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest as diverse actors interpret and modify approaches according to contexts and experiences. We suggest that the concept of "intersecting precaritie…

  • Epidemics and the Military

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Moses Baluku et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 28

  • Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness

    Open Access•Macedward Leach, Hayley Macgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Citada por: 16•Referencias: 13

    Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and financing initiatives such as COVAX. At the same time, vaccine demand and uptake are seen to be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed to an increasin…

  • Legacies of humanitarian neglect

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Cristin A Fergus et al.•ARTICLE•Conflict and Health•2021

    Research findings question the merits of post-conflict reintegration programmes emphasising immediate family reunifications, without follow-up monitoring, social protection, education and skills training. By overlooking the diverse experiences of those who lived and fought with the LRA, and failing to anticipate or respond to the long term socio-political and economic challenges facing children on their return, reception centre processes not only…

  • Rejection and Resilience

    Open Access•T Allen, Jackline Atingo et al.•ARTICLE•Civil Wars•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 18

    This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient, because they have survived, but there are important variations. For the most part, those who managed to gain status in the LRA, are those most likely to present themselves as ‘resilient’ according to notions of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. The majority are not in…

  • The dynamics of external provision in physical education

    Open Access•Jessica Mangione, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2021•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 4

    Neoliberalism is a pervasive phenomenon. A fundamental neoliberal concept allows for the selection of the best and most suitable option available for a specific course of action in any aspect of society. Not unexpectedly, the educational field, including physical education (PE), has been influenced by neoliberal ideas. A key element of neoliberalism in PE is the selection of workers external to the school system, as a suitable option to improve t…

  • A three-legged stool

    Open Access•Mary O’sullivan, Brigitte Moody et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2021•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 1

    The purpose of this paper was to examine Irish Physical Education teachers' views on curriculum change at the beginning of its implementation stage, with a particular focus on revision to the Physical Education curriculum and the new Wellbeing programme. In the light of these revisions, teachers were asked to make considerable changes to their beliefs and pedagogical approaches. Teacher change theory provided a lens through which to examine teach…

  • Crisis responses, opportunity, and public authority during Covid‐19's first wave in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and South Sudan

    Open Access•Tom Kirk, Duncan Green et al.•ARTICLE•Disasters•2021•Referencias: 27

    Discussions on African responses to Covid‐19 have focused on the state and its international backers. Far less is known about a wider range of public authorities, including chiefs, humanitarians, criminal gangs, and armed groups. This paper investigates how the pandemic provided opportunities for claims to and contests over power in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. Ethnographic research is used to contend that local …

  • (Re)arranging “systems of care” in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone

    Open Access•Susannah H Mayhew, Dina Balabanova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 9

    Despite an expanding literature on Ebola-response, few studies detail or reflect on the responses of diverse systems of care. Little is known about how, why or in what ways, strategies of ill-health management were enacted locally, how health-systems power, authority and hierarchy were perceived and contested, or how other social systems, institutions and relationships shaped the response. This paper presents an interdisciplinary analysis of loca…

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  • Teacher education communities of practice

    Open Access•Kevin Patton, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Teaching and Teacher Education•2017•Citada por: 23•Referencias: 15

  • What Happened to Children Who Returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda

    Open Access•T Allen, Jackline Atingo et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Refugee Studies•2020•Citada por: 22•Referencias: 12

    In northern Uganda, more than 50,000 people were recruited by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) between the late 1980s and 2004, mostly by force. Around half of those taken were children (under 18 years old). A large number were never seen by their families again, but more than 20,000 returned through aid-financed reception centres. Endeavours were made to reunite them with their relatives, who were mostly living in insecure displacement camps. Re…

  • Vaccine anxieties, vaccine preparedness

    Open Access•Macedward Leach, Hayley Macgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Citada por: 16•Referencias: 13

    Global debates about vaccines as a key element of pandemic response and future preparedness in the era of Covid-19 currently focus on questions of supply, with attention to global injustice in vaccine distribution and African countries as rightful beneficiaries of international de-regulation and financing initiatives such as COVAX. At the same time, vaccine demand and uptake are seen to be threatened by hesitancy, often attributed to an increasin…

  • Ebola and Public Authority

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Tommy Matthew Hanson et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2019•Citada por: 16•Referencias: 27

    It is unclear how public authorities shaped responses to Ebola in Sierra Leone. Focusing on one village, we analyze what happened when "staff, stuff, space, and systems" were absent. Mutuality between neighbors, linked to secret societies, necessitated collective care for infected loved ones, irrespective of the risks. Practical learning was quick. Numbers recovering were reported to be higher among people treated in hidden locations, compared to…

  • De-Politicizing Parasites

    Melissa Parker, T Allen•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 28

    Large amounts of funding are being allocated to the control of neglected tropical diseases. Strategies primarily rely on the mass distribution of drugs to adults and children living in endemic areas. The approach is presented as morally appropriate, technically effective, and context-free. Drawing on research undertaken in East Africa, we discuss ways in which normative ideas about global health programs are used to set aside social and biologica…

  • Rethinking female circumcision

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Africa•1995•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 26

    Female circumcision is practised in more than twenty African countries as well as in a number of countries in the Middle East, and it has been estimated that at least 100 million females have been circumcised worldwide. It is striking, however, that much more concern has been expressed about female circumcision than about other operations or infections which adversely affect the reproductive health of women. In the academic arena, it is also inte…

  • Negotiating Intersecting Precarities

    Open Access•Hayley Macgregor, Macedward Leach et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2022•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 23

    This article shares findings on COVID-19 in Africa across 2020 to examine concepts and practices of epidemic preparedness and response. Amidst uncertainties about the trajectory of COVID-19, the stages of emergency response emerge in practice as interconnected. We illustrate how complex dynamics manifest as diverse actors interpret and modify approaches according to contexts and experiences. We suggest that the concept of "intersecting precaritie…

  • Epidemics and the Military

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Moses Baluku et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2022•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 28

  • The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control

    Ian Harper, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 17

    Walking from the courtyard, out of the monsoon rains, into the cool offices of a large and prosperous nongovernmental organization (NGO) in one of Nepal’s sprawling urban cities was a relief. It wa

  • Border parasites

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, T Allen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2012•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 24

    It is recognized that the control of schistosomisais in Uganda requires a focus on fisherfolk. Large numbers suffer from this water-borne parasitic disease; notably along the shores of lakes Albert and Victoria and along the River Nile. Since 2004, a policy has been adopted of providing drugs, free of charge, to all those at risk. The strategy has been reported to be successful, but closer investigation reveals serious problems. This paper draws …

  • Covid-19, Public Authority and Enforcement

    Melissa Parker, Hayley Macgregor et al.•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2020•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 8

    The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical concerns. UN Security Council Resolution 2177 epitomizes this. The resolution asserted that “the outbreak is undermining the stability of the most affected countries ... [and] the Ebola outbreak in Africa constitutes a threat to in…

  • Is promoting war trauma such a good idea

    Open Access•Costanza Torres, COSTANZA TORRE et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2019•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 17

    A well-known medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an important systematic review and meta-analysis of mental disorder estimates in conflict settings, advocating for the scaling up of mental health interventions in such contexts. However, there is an assumption that the introduction of such treatments has no significant impact, except from a therapeutic one, in the settings they have been imported to. The authors' research in post-confl…

  • Epistemologies of Ebola

    Fred Martineau, Annie Wilkinson et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2017•Citada por: 6

    By September 2014, it was clear that conventional approaches to containing the spread of Ebola in West Africa were failing. Public health teams were often met with fear, and efforts to treat patients and curtail population movement frequently backfired. Both governments and international agencies recognized that anthropological expertise was essential if locally acceptable, community-based interventions to interrupt transmission were to be design…

  • Rejection and Resilience

    Open Access•T Allen, Jackline Atingo et al.•ARTICLE•Civil Wars•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 18

    This article focuses on young people who returned from the Lord’s Resistance Army in northern Uganda, mostly as children, over ten years ago. They are, by definition, resilient, because they have survived, but there are important variations. For the most part, those who managed to gain status in the LRA, are those most likely to present themselves as ‘resilient’ according to notions of self-reliance and entrepreneurialism. The majority are not in…

  • (Re)arranging “systems of care” in the early Ebola response in Sierra Leone

    Open Access•Susannah H Mayhew, Dina Balabanova et al.•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•2021•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 9

    Despite an expanding literature on Ebola-response, few studies detail or reflect on the responses of diverse systems of care. Little is known about how, why or in what ways, strategies of ill-health management were enacted locally, how health-systems power, authority and hierarchy were perceived and contested, or how other social systems, institutions and relationships shaped the response. This paper presents an interdisciplinary analysis of loca…

  • The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals

    Open Access•T Allen, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2011•Citada por: 5

    The sixth MDG aims 'to combat HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases'. The residual category of 'other diseases' has become the focus of intense interest, partly because it has provided an opportunity to increase resources for the control of the mostly parasitic 'neglected tropical diseases' (NTDs). Intense lobbying has secured large amounts of funding from donors, as well as generous donations of medicines from the major drug companies. A mass…

  • Re-assessing disability

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•1992•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 17

  • Drawing’ conclusions

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Ann Macphail et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2017•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 4

    This study explores the relationship between primary school physical education and physical activity as sites for the practice of physical activity of Irish primary school children. Understanding how children make connections between physical activity sites is important in shaping physical education experiences that promote lifelong participation. Children’s (aged 8–11) awareness, knowledge, and understanding of physical activity and physical edu…

  • Bilharzia and the boys

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•1993•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 31

  • Teachers learning to use student voice in primary physical education – ready, steady, go

    Open Access•Déirdre Ní Chróinín, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2024•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 3

    Primary physical education lags behind student voice developments in research and practice internationally ( Gillett-Swan and Baroutsis, 2023 ) and in post-primary physical education ( Howley and O'Sullivan, 2021 ; Iannucci and Parker, 2022a ). Furthermore, evidence is lacking on how to guide primary teachers learning to implement student voice pedagogies in physical education successfully. This research begins to fill this gap by focusing on the…

  • The facilitator’s role in supporting physical education teachers’ empowerment in a professional learning community

    Luiza Lana Gonçalves, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2020•Citada por: 3•Referencias: 6

    Physical education (PE) researchers demonstrate the benefits of collaborative continuing professional development (CPD) through the cultivation of professional learning communities (PLCs). Furthermore, this body of research reflects teachers' empowerment as a current concern in the literature about PLCs. Although the importance of teachers' empowerment in PLCs is recognised, there is much to learn about the facilitator's actions to create spaces …

  • Becoming activist teacher educators

    Open Access•Luiza Lana Gonçalves, Leonardo Liziero et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2025•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 6

    Since the late 20th century, school–university partnerships have been promoted as collaborative efforts in teacher education. Traditionally, in such partnerships, university teacher educators oversaw cooperating teachers who supervised pre-service teachers (PSTs) in a hierarchical structure. In parallel with a growing movement for teacher educators to adopt activist roles challenging societal oppressions, recent shifts have recognised cooperating…

  • The purpose of primary physical education

    Open Access•Mike Jess, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2024•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 6

    This paper reports on the first phase of a longitudinal project investigating the perceived purposes that different stakeholders have for primary physical education (PE). In the study, the views of 19 teacher educators from seven countries across Europe were sought. While teacher educators may have some influence across the layers of an education system, little is known about this stakeholder group and their views about primary PE. Analysis of fo…

  • The dynamics of external provision in physical education

    Open Access•Jessica Mangione, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2021•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 4

    Neoliberalism is a pervasive phenomenon. A fundamental neoliberal concept allows for the selection of the best and most suitable option available for a specific course of action in any aspect of society. Not unexpectedly, the educational field, including physical education (PE), has been influenced by neoliberal ideas. A key element of neoliberalism in PE is the selection of workers external to the school system, as a suitable option to improve t…

  • A three-legged stool

    Open Access•Mary O’sullivan, Brigitte Moody et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2021•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 1

    The purpose of this paper was to examine Irish Physical Education teachers' views on curriculum change at the beginning of its implementation stage, with a particular focus on revision to the Physical Education curriculum and the new Wellbeing programme. In the light of these revisions, teachers were asked to make considerable changes to their beliefs and pedagogical approaches. Teacher change theory provided a lens through which to examine teach…

  • Re-assessing disability

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•1992•Citada por: 5•Referencias: 17

  • Bilharzia and the boys

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Social Science & Medicine•1993•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 31

  • Rethinking female circumcision

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Africa•1995•Citada por: 11•Referencias: 26

    Female circumcision is practised in more than twenty African countries as well as in a number of countries in the Middle East, and it has been estimated that at least 100 million females have been circumcised worldwide. It is striking, however, that much more concern has been expressed about female circumcision than about other operations or infections which adversely affect the reproductive health of women. In the academic arena, it is also inte…

  • The Mental Health of War-damaged Populations

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•IDS Bulletin•1996•Citada por: 1•Referencias: 8

    Over the last few years increasing attention has been given to documenting the mental health and well-being of populations throughout the world One of the

  • Sexual Networks and the Transmission of Hiv in London

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, H Ward et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•1998

    This paper discusses ways in which empirical research investigating sexual networks can further understanding of the transmission of HIV in London, using information from a 24-month period of participant observation and 53 open-ended, in-depth interviews with eighteen men and one woman who have direct and indirect sexual links with each other. These interviews enabled the identification of a wider sexual network between 154 participants and conta…

  • The Anthropology of Public Health

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Ian Harper•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2006

    The Journal of Biosocial Science regularly publishes papers addressing the social and cultural aspects of disease, sickness and well-being. Most of these papers attempt to understand the prevalence and distribution of disease and sickness within and between populations as well as local responses to biomedical interventions and public health policy more generally. They fall broadly within the remit of human ecology; and they embrace a ‘factorial’ …

  • Core Groups and the Transmission of Hiv

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2006

    A growing and substantial body of research suggests that female sex workers play a disproportionately large role in the transmission of HIV in many parts of the world, and they are often referred to as core groups by epidemiologists, mathematical modellers, clinicians and policymakers. Male sex workers, by contrast, have received little attention and it is not known whether it is helpful to conceptualize them as a core group. This paper draws upo…

  • Resisting Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, T Allen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2008

    A strong case has recently been made by academics and policymakers to develop national programmes for the integrated control of Africa’s ‘neglected tropical diseases’. Uganda was the first country to develop a programme for the integrated control of two of these diseases: schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminths. This paper discusses social responses to the programme in Panyimur, north-west Uganda. It shows that adults are increasingly reje…

  • Learning from HIV and Aids

    George Ellison, Melissa Parker et al.•BOOK•Learning from HIV and AIDS•2010

  • The ‘Other Diseases’ of the Millennium Development Goals

    Open Access•T Allen, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Third World Quarterly•2011•Citada por: 5

    The sixth MDG aims 'to combat HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other diseases'. The residual category of 'other diseases' has become the focus of intense interest, partly because it has provided an opportunity to increase resources for the control of the mostly parasitic 'neglected tropical diseases' (NTDs). Intense lobbying has secured large amounts of funding from donors, as well as generous donations of medicines from the major drug companies. A mass…

  • Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy

    T Allen, Melissa Parker•CHAPTER•The Sage Handbook of Social…•2012

  • Border parasites

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, T Allen et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Eastern African Studies•2012•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 24

    It is recognized that the control of schistosomisais in Uganda requires a focus on fisherfolk. Large numbers suffer from this water-borne parasitic disease; notably along the shores of lakes Albert and Victoria and along the River Nile. Since 2004, a policy has been adopted of providing drugs, free of charge, to all those at risk. The strategy has been reported to be successful, but closer investigation reveals serious problems. This paper draws …

  • Will Mass Drug Administration Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis? Evidence From Northern Coastal Tanzania

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, T Allen•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2013

    This article documents understandings and responses to mass drug administration (MDA) for the treatment and prevention of lymphatic filariasis among adults and children in northern coastal Tanzania from 2004 to 2011. Assessment of village-level distribution registers, combined with self-reported drug uptake surveys of adults, participant observation and interviews, revealed that at study sites in Pangani and Muheza districts the uptake of drugs w…

  • The Politics and Anti-Politics of Infectious Disease Control

    Ian Harper, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 7•Referencias: 17

    Walking from the courtyard, out of the monsoon rains, into the cool offices of a large and prosperous nongovernmental organization (NGO) in one of Nepal’s sprawling urban cities was a relief. It wa

  • De-Politicizing Parasites

    Melissa Parker, T Allen•ARTICLE•Medical Anthropology•2014•Citada por: 15•Referencias: 28

    Large amounts of funding are being allocated to the control of neglected tropical diseases. Strategies primarily rely on the mass distribution of drugs to adults and children living in endemic areas. The approach is presented as morally appropriate, technically effective, and context-free. Drawing on research undertaken in East Africa, we discuss ways in which normative ideas about global health programs are used to set aside social and biologica…

  • Looking across and within

    Deborah Tannehill, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•Asia-Pacific Journal of Health…•2015

    The purpose of this paper is to describe the ongoing self-study of a community of physical education teacher educators (PETE) striving to enhance their research capacity and program effectiveness. The underpinnings of the project reside within professional development/professional learning and self-study. Engaging in self-study projects ‘allows teacher educators to focus on their own practice and students’ learning while meeting the research expe…

  • Biosocial Approaches to the Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Katja Polman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2016

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  • Deworming Delusions? Mass Drug Administration in East African Schools

    Open Access•T Allen, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2016

    Recent debates about deworming school-aged children in East Africa have been described as the ‘Worm Wars’. The stakes are high. Deworming has become one of the top priorities in the fight against infectious diseases. Staff at the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and the World Bank (among other institutions) have endorsed the approach, and school-based treatments are a key component of large-scale mass drug administration programmes…

  • Neglected Tropical Diseases in Biosocial Perspective

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Katja Polman et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Biosocial Science•2016

    The term ‘neglected tropical diseases’ (NTDs) points to the need for a biosocial perspective. Although ‘diseases’ are widely understood as biological phenomena, ‘neglect’ is inherently social. Social priorities, social relations and social behaviour profoundly influence the design, implementation and evaluation of control programmes. Yet, these dimensions of neglect are, themselves, neglected. Instead, emphasis is being placed on preventive chemo…

  • Engaging ‘communities’

    Open Access•Annie Wilkinson, Melissa Parker et al.•ARTICLE•Philosophical Transactions of the…•2017

    The recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa highlights how engaging with the sociocultural dimensions of epidemics is critical to mounting an effective outbreak response. Community engagement was pivotal to ending the epidemic and will be to post-Ebola recovery, health system strengthening and future epidemic preparedness and response. Extensive literatures in the social sciences have emphasized how simple notions of community, which project solidar…

  • Drawing’ conclusions

    Open Access•Melissa Parker, Ann Macphail et al.•ARTICLE•European Physical Education Review•2017•Citada por: 4•Referencias: 4

    This study explores the relationship between primary school physical education and physical activity as sites for the practice of physical activity of Irish primary school children. Understanding how children make connections between physical activity sites is important in shaping physical education experiences that promote lifelong participation. Children’s (aged 8–11) awareness, knowledge, and understanding of physical activity and physical edu…

  • Teacher education communities of practice

    Open Access•Kevin Patton, Melissa Parker•ARTICLE•Teaching and Teacher Education•2017•Citada por: 23•Referencias: 15

  • Epistemologies of Ebola

    Fred Martineau, Annie Wilkinson et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropological Quarterly•2017•Citada por: 6

    By September 2014, it was clear that conventional approaches to containing the spread of Ebola in West Africa were failing. Public health teams were often met with fear, and efforts to treat patients and curtail population movement frequently backfired. Both governments and international agencies recognized that anthropological expertise was essential if locally acceptable, community-based interventions to interrupt transmission were to be design…

  • Neglected Tropical Diseases

    Open Access•Melissa Parker•OTHER•The International Encyclopedia of…•2018

    The term “neglected tropical diseases” was first coined in 2005. It describes a heterogeneous group of predominantly parasitic and bacterial infections that cause significant morbidity, if not mortality, among politically and economically marginal populations, particularly in sub‐Saharan Africa. Anthropological research has foregrounded the sociopolitical processes enabling academics and activists to create a distinct brand identity, thereby succ…

  • Is promoting war trauma such a good idea

    Open Access•Costanza Torres, COSTANZA TORRE et al.•ARTICLE•Anthropology Today•2019•Citada por: 6•Referencias: 17

    A well-known medical journal, The Lancet, recently published an important systematic review and meta-analysis of mental disorder estimates in conflict settings, advocating for the scaling up of mental health interventions in such contexts. However, there is an assumption that the introduction of such treatments has no significant impact, except from a therapeutic one, in the settings they have been imported to. The authors' research in post-confl…

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