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Lavinia Bertini

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Public Health)

Lavinia Bertini

Lavinia is a Social and Medical Anthropologist with expertise in critical public health and applied anthropology in health and social care research. 

In 2019, she joined the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Kent, Surrey and Sussex (ARC KSS) as Research Fellow in Public Health. Since then, she has worked on a range of projects that focus on the interface of public health and social care, including infectious control in homecare and care homes, and food insecurity for older people using community-based care services, as well as on evaluations of hospital discharge and integrated care systems. With her work, she has contributed to develop public health research in homecare. 

Lavinia completed her PhD in Social and Medical Anthropology at the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research was a multi-sited ethnography of practices and discourses of obesity management in the UK. Drawing on critical medical anthropology and fat studies, this work contributes to current debates on the medicalization of fatness, fat stigma, and 'healthy eating' in public health.

Her research interests include health inequalities, and the reproduction of identities linked to health, class, gender, and age in public health, health and care policy and settings.
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