Halina Suwalowska

Biographic Data

ID7989918
NAMEHalina Suwalowska
GIVEN NAMESHalina
FAMILY NAMESuwalowska
SIGNATURESUWALOWSKA H
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
ORCID0000-0003-4039-094X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX0

  • Perceptions of death, dying and the body in Vietnamese culture

    Open AccessNhung Phuong Doan, My Nguyen Le Thao et al.ARTICLESSM - Qualitative Research in…2026

    Background: Perceptions of death and dying has been attracting more attention in recent years with more advocacy on improving the end-of-life experiences and providing more support for families during these times. While these topics are important, Western views about death and dying have been more dominant, leaving a knowledge gap in how death and dying are perceived in Asian cultures. We used qualitative methods to explore how death and dying wa…

  • Life from death

    Open AccessHalina Suwalowska, Michael Parker et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BOX Uterus transplantation (UTx) from deceased donors is a novel reproductive technology that has led to successful births globally

  • Assembling a global health image

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Sonya De Laat et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    Background Recently, global health has been confronting its visual culture, historically modulated by colonialism, racism and abusive representation. There have been international calls to promote ethicality of visual practices. However, despite this focus on the history and the institutional use of global health images, little is known about how in practice contemporary images are created in communities, and how consent to be in photographs is o…

  • Global health photography behind the façade of empowerment and decolonisation

    Open AccessArsenii Alenichev, Koen Peeters Grietens et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    Global health photography has historically been commissioned and, therefore, dominated by the gaze of Western photographers on assignments in the Global South. This is changing as part of international calls to decolonise global health and stimulate 'empowerment', spawning a growing initiative to hire local photographers. This article, based on interviews with global health photographers, reflects on this paradigm shift. It highlights how behind …

  • Hypothetical acceptability of minimally invasive tissue sampling and considerations for practice

    Open AccessNhung Doan Phuong, Ngan Ta Thi Dieu et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2024

    The exact aetiology of the cause of death (COD) remains unknown for a high proportion of deaths caused by infectious diseases. Complete diagnostic autopsy (CDA) is considered the gold standard to determine COD, but it is often not used in low and middle-income countries (LMIC), including Vietnam, for a variety of reasons. One alternative is minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS). This study was part of a larger project to explore the perceptio…

  • Navigating uncertainties of death

    Open AccessHalina Suwalowska, Patricia Kingori et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2023

    Global health practitioners and policymakers have become increasingly vocal about the complex challenges of identifying and quantifying the causes of death of the world's poorest people. To address this cause-of-death uncertainty and to minimise longstanding sensitivities about full autopsies, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been one of the foremost advocates of minimally invasive autopsy technology (MIA). MIA involves using biopsy nee…

  • The invisible body work of ‘last responders’ – ethical and social issues faced by the pathologists in the Global South

    Open AccessHalina SuwalowskaARTICLEGlobal Public Health2022

    This paper utilises empirical data to explore the value of 'body work' performed by last responders charged with the duty of dead body management, with a focus on the Global South. While frontline staff work to save lives, little is known about the experiences and roles of those who care for the dead in global health in times of crises and even during normal times. This paper discusses ethical and socio-cultural challenges pathologists face in 'w…

  • Ethical and sociocultural challenges in managing dead bodies during epidemics and natural disasters

    Open AccessHalina Suwalowska, Fatu Amara et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Catastrophic natural disasters and epidemics claim thousands of lives and have severe and lasting consequences, accompanied by human suffering. The Ebola epidemic of 2014-2016 and the current COVID-19 pandemic have revealed some of the practical and ethical complexities relating to the management of dead bodies. While frontline staff are tasked with saving lives, managing the bodies of those who die remains an under-resourced and over…