Christina Marcham

Christina has a BA (Hons) in Social Anthropology from the University of Kent and an MSc in Reproductive and Sexual Health Research from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has worked for two years for the World Health Organisation in Geneva in the Departments of Reproductive Health and Research and STI/HIV/AIDS. During this time her work focussed on the use of condoms as a method of dual protection (contraception and STI prevention) and the treatment of STIs, both in the formal and informal sectors. Christina has conducted in-depth interviews for a British Government initiative to reduce teenage pregnancy in the UK and has also undertaken in-depth interview and focus group discussions in Latvia, Brazil and Zimbabwe.

Christina has worked for the international Planned Parenthood Federation in Tunisia as Programme Coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa. She also spent two years as a lecturer at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, where she taught medical sociology/anthropology, research methods and HIV/AIDS to both undergraduate and graduate students.

Christina has worked and travelled extensively in South East Asia, Brazil, North Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. Her main research interests are in reproductive and sexual health, and medical sociology/anthropology, with a particular focus on traditional healers and traditional health care systems. She also enjoys writing children’s stories and has written an educational book on HIV/AIDS which is being used as a school text in South African schools. Her second book is currently being published.