Why do People Sell their Kidneys? An Ethnographic Study of a Hokse Village
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7 January 2024/२२ पुस २०८० (आइतबार, दिउँसो ३ बजे)
Research Seminar Series
Why do People Sell their Kidneys? An Ethnographic Study of a Hokse Village
Bijaya Shrestha, PhD, Medical Anthropologist
Bipin Adhikari, DPhil, Researcher, Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok
About the Speakers:
Bijaya Shrestha is a medical anthropologist and holds a degree in Master in Public Health and Health Social Sciences from Mahidol University, Thailand. Shrestha is a passionate researcher and works in Nepal. His fields of study are human trafficking, migration, reproductive health, health system in Nepal. He is currently working at the Center for Research on Education Health and Social Science.
Bipin Adhikari is a researcher who joined Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Bangkok in 2015. After completing DPhil at the University of Oxford in 2019, in which he concentrated his research around community engagement for targeted malaria elimination in Laos, he has worked with global researchers to broaden the scholarship around community engagement in health research. He is currently working at the malaria department of MORU based at field sites in Cambodia. His research interests are in social and clinical aspects of infectious diseases, epidemiology, and antimicrobial resistance in South/Southeast Asia.