Professor Lisa Dikomitis is currently leading or co-leading global health and humanitarian public health projects in Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. She has carried out substantial ethnographic fieldwork in several of these countries, as well as in Cyprus, Belgium, and the UK (click here for fieldwork pictures). Her research is situated at the intersection of medicine, development studies, social science and humanities. Substantive research fields are forced migration and the effects of conflict, non-communicable diseases, health systems and neglected tropical diseases in unserved and underserved areas.

REFUGEES AND FORCED MIGRATION

Professor Dikomitis conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork among Greek and Turkish Cypriot refugees on the effects of protracted conflict. This resulted in her internationally acclaimed monograph Cyprus and Its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees (Bloomsbury IB Tauris, 2012), also in Anthropology Today. She continues her research on ethnic conflict and regularly publishes in the area (including a project on refugees and the politics of restoring religious sites and cemeteries, published in 2020, When the Cemetery Becomes Political)

HUMANITARIAN AND GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH

This global health research addresses the social and cultural health determinants, policies and health systems in societies experiencing major social and political change. Research is always carried out in partnership with local communities, NGOs and academic colleagues to improve health and health equity. Professor Dikomitis led the MRC-AHRC funded SOLACE , on humanitarian public health in the Philippines and currently co-leads ECLIPSE, on cutaneous leishmaniasis. She also leads qualitative and ethnographic work packages on mental health projects in Pakistan (STOPS+).

HEALTH SERVICE RESEARCH

This strand includes a study on complex interventions in primary care (Primary Health Care Research & Development ), cluster headache studies (BJGP, Neurological Sciences, Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, Brain Sciences), studies on mental health and self-harm and primary care (BJGP, British Journal of Psychiatry, EClinicalMedicine by The Lancet), studies on musculoskeletal pain and primary care (Trials, Musculoskeletal Care).

MEDICAL EDUCATION

Professor Dikomitis wrote about researching curriculum development (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), assessments in medical education (Medical Education), anthropology in medical education (Springer Anthropology), palliative care component in medical education (BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care).