Dr. Lesley Branagan

Dr. Lesley Branagan is a social anthropologist whose work is broadly situated in the sub-fields of medical anthropology, health, gender studies and conceptions of the state. Her academic research has focused on innovative grassroots approaches to healthcare forged by marginalised actors in India. It considers how – within a field of competing tensions (ideologies, practices, services, individual needs and public health policies) – people develop intricate methods to strive for good care and agency. Her fieldwork has spanned low-income urban areas and a faith healing temple in south India that introduced psychiatry – research for which she received a Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Award. Her postdoctoral research addresses adverse events following immunisation, particularly vaccine-induced Long Covid. .

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lesley-Branagan/research