Biography
Ann H. Kelly is a Professor in Anthropology and Global Health and Interim Head of the Department. She serves on the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) for Ebola Vaccines and Vaccination. She is also on the Editorial Board of Economy & Society, Cultural Anthropology, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications and Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
An anthropologist by training (Cambridge University, 2007), her ethnographic work focuses on the socio-material conditions that structure the production of global health knowledge, and the local ecologies of labour that circumscribe its circulation and use. She is currently collaborating on number of transdisciplinary collaborations at the interface of infectious disease control, health system strengthening and global outbreak response.
Her work has received support from a wide range of funders, including the Wellcome Trust, the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Leverhulme Trust. Recent work has appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Social Studies of Science, Social Science and Medicine, Economy and Society, American Ethnologist and Medical Anthropology.
She is currently finishing a monograph with Javier Lezaun that explores vector biologists and entomologists towards the development to rethink the parameters of knowability and doability in global health.
Research
- Emergency research and transitional research practices
- Politics of global health research
- STS of Africa
- Global health anthropology
- Social science of vector-control
- Multispecies ethnography and zoonotic disease
- Critical global health of laboratory science
Ann has addressed a number of substantive topics, from mosquito control programmes in urban and rural contexts to emergency clinical trials during the recent West African Ebola outbreak.
In addition to working with a range of entomologists, biologists, parasitologists, public health experts and geneticists, she is currently working with a group of sustainable architects, urban designers and landscape artists in an effort to ‘hack’ fundamental paradoxes of mosquito rearing, collection and release.
Teaching
7SSHM Critical Global Health
PhD supervision
Ann is happy to supervise students looking to study in her area of expertise.
Further details
See Ann's research profile
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Mapua, S. A., Finda, M. F., Nambunga, I. H., Msugupakulya, B. J., Ukio, K., Chaki, P. P., Tripet, F., Kelly, A. H., Christofides, N., Lezaun, J. & Okumu, F. O., Dec 2021, In: Malaria Journal. 20, 1, 123. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03661-x
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Finda, M. F., Okumu, F. O., Minja, E., Njalambaha, R., Mponzi, W., Tarimo, B. B., Chaki, P., Lezaun, J., Kelly, A. H. & Christofides, N., Dec 2021, In: Malaria Journal. 20, 1, 134. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12936-021-03663-9
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Robbins, T., Hanlon, C., Kelly, A., Gidiri, M. F., Musiyiwa, M., Silverio, S. A., Shennan, A. & Sandall, J., 26 Oct 2021, In: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kameda, K., Kelly, A. H., Lezaun, J. & Löwy, I., Oct 2021, In: SOCIAL STUDIES OF SCIENCE. 51, 5, p. 683-706 24 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127211035492
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Kelly, A., 1 Aug 2021, In: Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 115, 8, p. 847-853 7 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1093/trstmh/traa179
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Kelly, A., 6 Jul 2021, In: Health Policy and Planning. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Cousins, T., Pentecost, M., Alvergne, A., Chandler, C., Chigudu, S., Herrick, C., Kelly, A., Leonelli, S., Lezaun, J., Lorimer, J., Reubi, D. & Sekalala, S., 23 Mar 2021, In: BMJ Global Health . 6, 3, e005442. Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2021-005442
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the Ebola-CP Consortium, 18 Feb 2021, In: Nature. 590, 7846, p. 468-472 5 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-03146-y
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Jensen, N., Kelly, A. & Avendano Pabon, M., 18 Jan 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 8, 1, 15. Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00700-x
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Ignatowicz, A., Odland, M. L., Bockarie, T., Wurie, H., Ansumana, R., Kelly, A. H., Willott, C., Witham, M. & Davies, J., 15 Dec 2020, In: BMJ Open. 10, 12, e038523. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-038523