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Professor Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil

Professor Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil

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jvannuil@oucru.org

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Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil

PhD

Associate Professor

  • Head of Social Science and Implementation Research Group

Social and Behavioural Research

Jennifer Ilo Van Nuil, PhD, is the head of Social Science and Implementation Research (SSIR) at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU). Jennifer is also an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health. Jennifer’s expertise is in Medical Anthropology and she is broadly concerned with the relationships between global health interventions, politics, and practice. Her main research interests include the ethnography of biomedicine, infectious diseases, global health equity, and social theory. Jennifer has been leading the SSIR group across OUCRU in Indonesia, Nepal, and Vietnam since 2018.

Current research topics include exploring the socio-cultural contexts of care for infectious diseases, including sexually transmitted infections (STIs), HIV, viral hepatitis, leprosy, tuberculosis, dengue, and malaria with communities where access to care is often out of their reach or for those living in rural or underserved areas; health systems research focused on co-developing responsive health systems with minoritized communities and in contexts where the health systems do not meet the full needs of communities; acceptability and feasibility research on integration of new technologies and interventions into routine practice, for example, on novel treatments (for STIs, dengue), vaccines (for malaria, HPV), and on end of life care at the community level. 

Prior to joining OUCRU, Jennifer lived in Rwanda from 2009 until 2018 working with a variety of organizations. Her research in Rwanda included an ethnographic study with members of HIV support associations across the country; acceptability and feasibility research within clinical trials regarding women’s health interventions (e.g. vaginal contraceptive rings) at Rinda Ubuzima in Kigali, Rwanda, and qualitative research regarding care seeking pathways for people with hepatitis C virus in collaboration with Partners in Health Rwanda and the Rwanda Military Hospital in Kanombe, Rwanda.

Jennifer is currently based at the OUCRU-Indonesia office in Jakarta.

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