Graduate Student, International Development (QEH)
DPhil Student
Green Templeton
Thesis Title: Determining Sustainable Global Health Policies: an analysis of the World Health Organization's policy for the integration of local healthcare practices and practitioners into state biomedical health care systems in the Philippines
Professor Gerard Bodeker
Dr. Dawn Chatty
Dr. Proochista Ariana
About
I'm a board-certified Adult Nurse Practitioner (MSN, Vanderbilt), and a board-certified Acupuncturist/Herbalist (MSOM, Samra University, USA and Beijing University TCM, China) in the United States. I also have a MPH in International Health and Development (Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine), a MSc in Medical Anthropology (Oxon.), a BA in Biology and Psychology (NYU), and a post-masters certificate in Adult Education (PENN). I am currently completing my doctorate in Development Studies at the University of Oxford. My overall interest is in healthcare equity for populations in developing countries.
Research Interests: Social Medicine and Comprehensive Primary Health Care; the impact of global health policy on developing communities; the impact of 'globalisation' on health; the effect of health reform and healthcare decentralisation; the integration of non-biomedical practices into state healthcare systems; the transfer of Traditional Chinese Medicine to developing countries; international food security; Positive Deviance in health and development; appropriate classificatory systems for local medical pluralism; community agency and sustainable development; operationalising agency; learned helplessness in development interventions; complexity in development; traditional knowledge and appropriate technological transfer; the appropriate level of inquiry and multilevel analysis; equity, health, & human rights; and the phenomenology of inequity & exclusion.
Currently evaluating the impact of the global health policy of integration of non-biomedicine with biomedicine (in state and local health systems) on community health and local healthcare systems in the Philippines.
Contact Information
3 Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3TB
United Kingdom
Skype: paulkadetz
