Dr Carine Asnong
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Carine Asnong
IHTM Senior Teaching and Research Associate
- IHTM Management Team
- Lead for Life Course sub-module
I am a medical doctor and a graduate of the first 2015-2016 cohort of the Oxford MSc in International Health and Tropical Medicine. Since 2017 I have been a lecturer in the MSc IHTM and I am currently an IHTM Senior Teaching and Research Fellow and Lead of the Life Course sub-module.
My research interests span adolescent health, maternal health and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), using qualitative and participatory methods. During my IHTM placement project “Perceptions and experiences of adolescent pregnancy in refugee and migrant communities on the Thai-Myanmar border”, I had the opportunity to work with vulnerable adolescents in a fragile setting. More recently, I organised adolescent advisory groups in sub-Saharan Africa for the UKRI GCRF Accelerating Achievement for Africa’s Adolescents Research Hub, aiming to inform and align research priorities and linked services with adolescents’ priorities.
Together with colleagues I also dedicate time to research capacity sharing with organisations and institutions of IHTM alumni. In Liberia I collaborate with a team of early career Liberian researchers and IHTM alumni to generate locally relevant evidence, assess evidence gaps and identify research priorities in Maternal and Neonatal Health in Liberia (OMNeo Health). By invitation of colleagues in the Seychelles Ministry of Health, I am supporting the development of research skills of MoH project managers to inform health policies. We hope that these collaborations cause a ripple effect and will give rise to a sustainable transformation, in which local research with local data drives local policy and improves the health outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Contribution to MSc IHTM publications
Adella FJ, Vanna M, Adhikari B, Ol S, Tripura R, Davoeung C, Callery JJ, Sovann Y, Chandna A, Bunreth V, Asnong C. et al., (2023) Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 117(11):788-796
Evaluating the Impact of a Digital Hospital Information Management System on the Operational and Financial Performance of Health Facilities in Kenya
Apholung Ngwashi C. et al, (2023) International Journal of Health Sciences and Research
Recent publications
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Power to participants: methodological and ethical reflections from a decade of adolescent advisory groups in South Africa.
Cluver L. et al, (2020), AIDS care, 1 - 9
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Adolescents’ perceptions and experiences of pregnancy in refugee and migrant communities on the Thailand-Myanmar border: a qualitative study
Asnong C. et al, (2018), Reproductive Health, 15
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LESSONS LEARNED FROM A MEASLES OUTBREAK IN ANTWERP, BELGIUM 2007-2008
Asnong C. et al, (2011), PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASE JOURNAL, 30, 343 - 345
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Lymphocytes from lymph nodes at different distances from human melanoma vary in their capacity to inhibit/enhance tumor cell growth in vitro.
Farzad Z. et al, (1997), Melanoma Res, 7 Suppl 2, S59 - S65
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THE HISTOLOGY AND DIFFERENTIAL-DIAGNOSIS OF SPITZ NEVUS
BINDER SW. et al, (1993), SEMINARS IN DIAGNOSTIC PATHOLOGY, 10, 36 - 46