Imogen Brown
Research Assistant (University of Oxford)
Imogen holds an MA in Social Anthropology and an MSc in Africa and International Development from the University of Edinburgh.
She previously worked as a Research Assistant at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute at the University of Cambridge, where she assisted on a variety of research projects relating to improving NHS England’s healthcare services.
As part of her MSc, Imogen undertook a research placement for the Scottish Global Health Co-ordination Unit and the NHS Scotland Global Citizenship Programme, where she evaluated a biomedical engineering partnership between Scotland and Uganda, with a focus on reciprocal exchange and sharing of best practices. Her MA in Social Anthropology involved ethnographic fieldwork in Lusaka, Zambia, where she sought to understand the juxtaposition between community responses to road traffic accidents and first aid training.
She hopes to pursue a PhD and develop a framework to encourage global health actors to proactively consider the social, cultural, and potential legal intricacies associated with road traffic accidents when developing and implementing community first response programmes in low- and middle-income countries.