Personal profile
Research interests
My work uses interdisciplinary and ethnographic approaches to transform understanding of key global public health issues including antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and infectious disease, building on longstanding research in Asia into medical plurality, treatment-seeking and inequalities in access to care. I am an elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and have published over 100 peer-reviewed articles as well as two edited books, the latest of which is Abrams, S., Lambert, H. and Robinson, J (eds) How to live through a pandemic (Routledge, 2023).
I am interested in the application of anthropological perspectives to a range of public health issues. These include:
Anthropological and interdisciplinary research on antimicrobial resistance
HIV prevention and sexual health in vulnerable communities in South Asia, with a particular focus on sex work
Popular understandings of health, illness and therapy
Non-biomedical therapeutic traditions in India within and outside the formal health sector
Social and cultural dimensions of health systems
Lay understandings of suicide and suicide prevention in social and kinship networks
The role of ethnographic and other forms of qualitative research evidence in the formulation and evaluation of public health interventions
External positions
AMR Research Champion, Economic and Social Research Council
1 Oct 2015 → 30 Sept 2016
Research Groups and Themes
- Health and Wellbeing
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Research output
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Implementing multi-component intervention to reduce antibiotic prescribing in primary care of rural China: a qualitative process evaluation of the trial
Zhang, T., Shen, X., Chai, J., Liu, R., Wang, D., Yardley, L., Lambert, H. & Cabral, C., 16 Jan 2026, In: BMJ Open. 16, 1, 11 p., e108618.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Waste-ing antibiotics: Antimicrobial resistance, environmental pollution and unsettled science in the governance of pharmaceutical manufacturing
Lambert, H. S., Panwar, A., Taneja, N. & Wellington, E. M. H., 1 Jul 2026, In: Social Science and Medicine. 400, 12 p., 119292.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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A multi-country mixed method evaluation of the HERA (Healthcare Responding to Domestic Violence and Abuse) intervention: A comparative analysis
Bacchus, L. J., Pereira, S., Joudeh, N. O., Kc, S., Silva, T., d’Oliveira, A. F., Batra, P., Shresta, S., Blima Schraiber, L., Alkaiyat, A., Rajapakse, T., Shaheen, A., Feder, G. S., Lambert, H. S., Garcia Moreno, C., Colombini, M. & The HERA Research team, 1 Jun 2025, In: SSM - Health Systems. 4, 15 p., 100042.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
Open Access
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COBRA Holistic Senior Study: Managing Cardiometabolic and Mental Wellness in Sri Lankan Communities
Lambert, H. S. (Principal Investigator)
1/12/25 → 31/05/30
Project: Research
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Exploring Social and Cultural Determinants of Antibiotic Use in Semi-Urban Egypt
Lambert, H. S. (Principal Investigator)
30/06/24 → 31/12/25
Project: Research
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Sanitation and hygiene after the pandemic in China and India and their influences on antimicrobial resistance: a scoping review
Zhang, T. (Principal Investigator), Nijhawan, A. (Co-Investigator), Cabral, C. L. (Co-Investigator) & Lambert, H. S. (Co-Investigator)
1/02/24 → 31/07/24
Project: Research
Datasets
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Antibiotic_pathways_China
Lambert, H. (Creator), Cole, M. (Creator), Cong, W. (Creator) & Cabral, C. (Creator), University of Bristol, 27 Jul 2022
DOI: 10.5523/bris.1waogd70b72v2s329r0tajapp, http://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/1waogd70b72v2s329r0tajapp
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