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Audrey Prost
BA PhD
Lecturer
UCL Centre for International Health and Development
Institute of Child Health
30 Guilford Street
London WC1N 1EH
t: +44 (0)207 905 2839
f: +44 (0)207 404 2062
audrey.prost@ucl.ac.uk
Expertise: Community interventions to improve maternal and newborn survival;The role of ethnographic methods to inform the development of interventions; Early Childhood Development; Maternal mental health in low-income countries
Biography: Audrey is a social anthropologist trained in epidemiology. Her main
interests are community-based interventions for maternal and newborn survival and child development. Audrey has worked among Tibetan refugee communities in northwest India, where she carried out an ethnographic study examining the impact of medical pluralism and exile on health seeking behaviour. This was published as a book in 2008. Audrey's research now focuses on testing community-based interventions to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in eastern India in close collaboration with partner NGO Ekjut. Audrey coordinates the Research Methods (Evidence for Global Health) and the Medical Anthropology modules.
