Dr Sara Paparini, BA MSc PhDSenior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity & GPHU Co-LeadEmail: s.paparini@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: G.17ProfileResearchPublicationsSupervisionProfileSara is an anthropologist working at the intersection of public health, anti-racist and participatory health research to achieve health equity. Her interests span intersectional health inequalities (particularly in sexual health, HIV and other infectious diseases), critical implementation science, anti-racist health research, community-led research, and the social aspects of chronic illness. She uses qualitative methodology, and especially longitudinal, ethnographic and case study methodologies. Sara is Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity at Wolfson Institute of Population health and the social science lead for the SHARE collaborative. Prior to joining QMUL, Sara worked as a social scientist at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences at the University of Oxford, at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has also worked in the NHS carrying out social research on HIV in East London hospitals and in the HIV voluntary sector. Sara has lived in East London for 25 years.ResearchResearch Interests:Partnership for Black People's Health Race, gender and intersectionality Health equity and health inequalities HIV and sexual health Participatory research practicePublicationsPaparini S, Whitacre R, Smuk M, Thornhill J, Mwendera C, Strachan S, Nutland W, Orkin C. Public understanding and awareness of and response to monkeypox virus outbreak: A crossâsectional survey of the most affected communities in the United Kingdom during the 2022 public health emergency. HIV medicine. 2022 Nov 16. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/hiv.13430 Paparini S, Papoutsi C, Murdoch J, Green J, Petticrew M, Greenhalgh T, Shaw S. Evaluating complex interventions in context: systematic, meta-narrative review of case study approaches. BMC Medical Research Methodology. 2021 https://bmcmedresmethodol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12874-021-01418-3 Paparini S, Nutland W, Rhodes T, Nguyen VK, Anderson J. DIY HIV prevention: Formative qualitative research with men who have sex with men who source PrEP outside of clinical trials. PloS one. 2018 Aug 23;13(8):e0202830 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30138482/ Bernays S, Paparini S, Seeley J, Rhodes T. ‘Not Taking it Will Just be Like a Sin’: Young People Living with HIV and the Stigmatization of Less-Than-Perfect Adherence to Antiretroviral Therapy. Medical Anthropology. 2017 Jul 4;36(5):485-99 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01459740.2017.1306856 Paparini S, Rhodes T. The biopolitics of engagement and the HIV cascade of care: a synthesis of the literature on patient citizenship and antiretroviral therapy. Critical Public Health. 2016 Oct 19;26(5):501-17. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09581596.2016.1140127 Mazanderani F, Paparini S. The stories we tell: Qualitative research interviews, talking technologies and the ‘normalisation’ of life with HIV. Social Science & Medicine. 2015 Apr 1;131:66-73. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953615001331?via%3DihubSupervisionDr Stephen Hibbs (QMUL HARP Fellow) Understanding sickle cell crises and their care: a multilevel case study Dr Vanessa Apea (QMUL HARP Fellow) Interactions between clinicians and Black women in outpatient settings: a qualitative study Francesca Dakin (University of Oxford) The Long Recovery: learning from the experiences of primary care workers during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve staff wellbeing and working conditions.