Susan is a social scientist Research Fellow at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and with the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) in Kampala, Uganda where she has been involved in researching social aspects of malaria since 2006.

Susan is interested in the ways that health care is shaped by development ideologies amidst an emerging culture of opportunity and entrepreneurship. As a research fellow at LSHTM, Susan’s research focuses on the social and economic implications of living with a drug resistant infection in central Uganda. Susan’s PhD research was an ethnographic study of lives, livestock and livelihoods in rural Eastern Uganda aiming to understand how and why antimicrobials are deployed in everyday life in Uganda. Susan’s methodological expertise is in the use of qualitative methods and ethnography to study complex health related problems. Susan has led research teams and engaged in fieldwork in health care settings and in communities in urban, peri urban and rural Uganda. Susan has carried out research mainly in Uganda with brief research experience in Tanzania and Malawi.

Further information on Susan is available on her institutional profile.

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