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Luisa Enria
Luisa Enria is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Her work applies approaches from political and medical anthropology to explore how people engage with, imagine and resist health emergencies and humanitarian responses. She is also interested in social science perspectives on biomedical research and interventions. During and after the 2014-16 West African Ebola outbreak, she worked as a social scientist on the Ebola vaccine trials in Kambia District, Sierra Leone, exploring participant engagement with novel vaccines and the social and political legacies of the epidemic. She has collaborated on several projects on the political economy of vaccination and developed a training for citizen ethnographers to study vaccine confidence in their communities. She recently co-led a project on community engagement for humanitarian vaccination in Ethiopia and Nigeria. She currently holds a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, which explores the limits and possibilities of integrating different kinds of knowledge and evidence in how we respond to outbreaks. As part of this project, she co-produced an ethnographic film- Tarma: Communities on the Frontline of Epidemic Response. Her DPhil from the university of Oxford focused on youth unemployment and post-war political violence in Sierra Leone and it snow published as a book titled The Politics of Work in a Post-Conflict State: Youth, Labour and Violence in Sierra Leone.