Professor King trained in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She worked for several years in the international development sector on livelihoods, food security and health programmes in South Asia and West Africa. She is a Professor in Global Health and Community Engagement in the Nuffield Centre for International Health and Development, University of Leeds, and she is currently Head of the Nuffield Centre. She leads a portfolio of research, which brings together my expertise in participatory community-based interventions, the importance of embedding approaches within the existing health infrastructure, and the critical need to address antimicrobial resistance globally.

She is currently leading an MRC-funded study “Community Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance” (COSTAR), which is exploring the ways in which community dialogues can be embedded into the health system infrastructure to contribute to the prevention and control of antimicrobial resistance in Bangladesh and Nepal. Prior to this, she has led UKRI, ESRC and HEFCE-funded studies in related areas, and worked with an AHRC-MRC-funded study in Nepal, which explored the use of participatory community film making to address antibiotic misuse. She co-lead a global network of researchers and practitioners working to address AMR through community engagement (CE4AMR https://ce4amr.leeds.ac.uk/).

She has methodological expertise in applied qualitative health research in international health and has provided expert leadership on the qualitative components of approximately 30 projects in Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Swaziland, Zambia, Uganda, Mozambique and the UK. She co-chairs the University of Leeds AMR steering group (Antimicrobial resistance | University of Leeds)

See Rebecca’s personal university profile for more information.

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