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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.
Key publications
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DIY HIV prevention: Formative qualitative research with men who have sex with men who source PrEP outside of clinical trials
Journal article
Paparini S. et al, (2018), PLoS ONE, 13
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Qualitative study of the BREATHER trial (Short Cycle antiretroviral therapy): Is it acceptable to young people living with HIV?
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Bernays S. et al, (2017), BMJ Open, 7
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The biopolitics of engagement and the HIV cascade of care: a synthesis of the literature on patient citizenship and antiretroviral therapy
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Paparini S. and Rhodes T., (2016), Critical Public Health, 26, 501 - 517
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Towards "evidence-making intervention" approaches in the social science of implementation science: The making of methadone in East Africa
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Rhodes T. et al, (2016), International Journal of Drug Policy, 30, 17 - 26
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The stories we tell: Qualitative research interviews, talking technologies and the 'normalisation' of life with HIV
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Mazanderani F. and Paparini S., (2015), Social Science and Medicine, 131, 66 - 73
Recent publications
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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 : journal of the International Society 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
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Adolescents Living With HIV: Checking Unhelpful Terminology
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Bernays S. et al, (2020), Journal of Adolescent Health
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We Need to Talk About Complexity in Health Research: Findings From a Focused Ethnography
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Papoutsi C. et al, (2020), Qualitative Health Research