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MSc in Translational Health Sciences
Sara is Module Lead for the Translational Science and Global Health module.
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Sara Paparini
BA (Hons), MSc, PhD
Health Services Researcher
Dr Sara Paparini is a health services researcher at the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences. Her interests include the making and uses of evidence in global public health interventions and policy, the social science of clinical trials, and the social aspects of HIV. Sara is also very interested in qualitative methodology, with a focus on longitudinal and ethnographic approaches, and qualitative synthesis. She is an experienced qualitative researcher, particularly in healthcare settings, and has also worked on different secondary research projects.
Sara has joined the University of Oxford in 2019 to work on the TRIPLE C project, looking at the use of case study research for understanding the role of context in complex health interventions. She is currently involved in knowledge exchange activities with the London's Fast Track City programme for HIV elimination. Prior to joining the Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Sara has been working at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies on an anthropological study of HIV eradication efforts, and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine on social science studies within international paediatric HIV clinical trials. She has also worked in the NHS carrying out social research on HIV and in the UK HIV third sector.
Sara holds a BA in Anthropology from Goldsmiths College University of London, an MSc in Policy Research from the University of Bristol, and a PhD in Social Policy also from the University of Bristol. Her doctoral thesis was focussed on methodological advancements (informed by intersectionality theory) for qualitative research on HIV-related stigma and discrimination.
Recent publications
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"If that would have lessened my symptoms, that would have been great...": a qualitative study about the acceptability of tecovirimat as treatment for mpox.
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Paparini S. et al, (2025), BMC Med, 23
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Mobilising context as complex and dynamic in evaluations of complex health interventions
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Murdoch J. et al, (2023), BMC Health Services Research, 23
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Gender in the consolidated criteria for reporting qualitative research (COREQ) checklist
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Albury C. et al, (2021), International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 33
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Case study research for better evaluations of complex interventions: rationale and challenges
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Paparini S. et al, (2020), BMC Medicine, 18
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“Because we all have to grow up”: supporting adolescents in Uganda to develop core competencies to transition towards managing their HIV more independently
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Lanyon C. et al, (2020), Journal of the International AIDS Society, 23