Dr Sara Paparini
Sara Paparini
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Paparini, S., Nutland, W., Rhodes, T., Nguyen, V., & Anderson, J. (2018).
DIY HIV prevention: Formative qualitative research with men who have sex with men who source PrEP outside of clinical trials. PLoS ONE, 13(8), e0202830–e0202830.
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Sara Paparini is Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity at Queen Mary University of London.
Sara 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.
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.
Sara 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.
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.
Biographical details correct as of 21.05.26