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Christopher J Colvin
Christopher J Colvin is an Associate Professor in UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine head of the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences. He is co-Director of the South African Social Science and HIV (SASH) Programme. He is a medical anthropologist with a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Cape Town.
Subjects: Anthropology - Soc Sci, Health and Social Care
Biography
Christopher J Colvin is an Associate Professor in UCT’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine where he heads the School’s Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences and is co-Director of the South African Social Science and HIV (SASH) Programme. He is a medical anthropologist with a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Public Health in Epidemiology from the University of Cape Town. He also holds faculty appointments at Brown University and the University of Virginia.Education
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PhD, Sociocultural Anthropology, Univ. of Virginia, 2004
MPH in Epidemiology, Univ. of Cape Town, 2007
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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His research interests include men, masculinity and HIV; trauma, memory and subjectivity; community health activism, health citizenship and governance; qualitative evidence synthesis and its role in emerging forms of global health policymaking and practice; the role of harmonised health information systems in integrating community-based and health system-based services; and new pedagogies to improve training in community-based health research methods.