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Dr Bhensri Naemiratch
Bhensri Naemiratch is a medical anthropologist. Her primary research interests relate to nutritional related to health and illness especially chronic illness. She has conducted ethnographic research on experience of chronic illness and disability in Thailand, Lao and Myanmar. She is current working with Professor Lenore Manderson on the RESILIENCE Project, which is a multi-site, collaborative program of research, investigates chronic illness and physical disability in Australia and four Southeast Asian countries, and exploring the emotional and lifestyle impact of Type 2 diabetes in rural Italians, Asians and Anglo Australians. |
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| Mar 1994 - Dec 1996 |
Project Coordinator. Association for Strengthening Integrated
National Population and Health Development Activities of Thailand (ASIN),
Bangkok, Thailand. |
| Mar 1999 - Jun 1999 |
Project Assistant (full-time). Australian Centre for
International Tropical Health and Nutrition (ACITHN), School of Population
Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. |
| Nov 1999 - May 2000 |
National Project Coordinator. Phayao Provincial Health
Office, Thailand for UNFPA Reproductive Health Project, Thailand. |
| Dec 2000 |
Researcher (Full-time casual). Queensland Health, Brisbane,
Australia. |
| Apr 2003 – June 2004 |
Research Assistant (Part-time casual). Key Centre for
Women’s Health in Society. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne,
Australia. |
| Jan – December 2005 |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Key Centre for Women’s
Health in Society. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia. |
| Jan 2006 – ongoing |
Postdoctoral Research Fellow. School of Psychology, Psychiatry
and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science.
Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. |
Chronic illness; Sociology of health and illness; Medical sociology and anthropology; Nutrition; Qualitative research; Cross-cultural studies.
| Mar - May 2001 |
Tutoring epidemiology and Epi-Info for Master Degree students. Australian
Centre for International and Tropical Health and Nutrition, The University
of Queensland. |
| 12 August 2004 |
Challenging western idea of health promotion (invited speaker), Key Centre
for Women’s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne. |
| 2 - 3 May 2005 |
Research training workshop (with Professor Lenore Manderson), Faculty
of Medicine 1, University of Yangon, Myanmar. |
| 6 Oct 2005 |
International Research Perspectives (invited speaker) Institute for Gender
Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. |
| 28 Oct 2005 |
Qualitative Research Workshop (with Dr. Milica Markovic), Key Centre for
Women’s Health in Society, The University of Melbourne. |
| Apr 2003 – on going |
RESILIENCE Project funded by the Australian Research Council, Chief investigator
Professor Lenore Manderson (The University of Melbourne). The aim of this
project is to explore the social experience and cultural perceptions of
disability, consider how contextual and environmental factors affect individual
functioning and disability, and explore the consequent disadvantages and
marginalisation of individuals and their family. |
| February 2006 – on going |
Diabetes and Depression project, funded by Beyond Blue, Chief investigator
Professor Lenore Manderson. The project describes and analyses social aspects
of depression and chronic illness (type 2 diabetes) among CALD groups |
Cutherbertson C.C., Naemiratch, B., Thompson, L.M., Osman,
A., Paterson, J.H., Mark, G.C., Hanafiah, M.S., Zaleha, M.I. 2000. Dietary intake
and iodine deficiency in women of childbearing age in Orang Asli community close
to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Asian Pacific Journal of Clinical Nutrition,
9 (1): 36-40.
Cutherbertson C.C., Naemiratch, B., Thompson, L.M., Osman,
A., Paterson, J.H., Mark, G.C., Hanafiah, M.S., Zaleha, M.I. 2000. Suna's Story:
IDD in an Orang Asli Village Close to Kuala Lumpur. IDD Newsletter, 16(3): 46-48.
Naemiratch, B., and Manderson, L. 2006. Control and adherence:
Living with diabetes in Bangkok, Thailand. Social Science and Medicine
(In Press).
Naemiratch, B., and Manderson, L. 2007. Lay explanation of
type 2 diabetes among urban dwellers in Thailand. Anthropology and Medicine
(In Press).
Naemiratch, B., and Manderson, L. "Normal, but …" The Qualified
Identity of People Living with Type 2 Diabetes in Bangkok, Thailand. Medical
Anthropology Quarterly (under review).
Naemiratch, B., Manderson, L. Even the Deities Drink Pepsi:
Dietary Change in Contemporary Thailand. Human Organisation (under
review)
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