The Approach
To carry out our mission and achieve our vision we utilise a broad theoretical and methodological approach:
- Multi-site ethnographic studies of the micro-context of particular health phenomena and of the role of culture in health
- Macro-level studies and analyses of social and economic processes, flows of people, medical technologies, and information, and complex inequalities relating to health
- Analyses and interventions relating to biopolitics, health finance, ethics, and governance
- Methodological innovation, development of mixed methods and qualitative methodologies for studying global health issues
- The development of large international databases of qualitative data relating to global health
- Historical ethnographies of the origins of existing health-related phenomena
- Applied problem-solving social science research in clinical and medical research settings
- Theory-oriented research and theory development as a framework for understanding global health processes