Mobilized, Recruited, Conscripted: Leveraging community health work, citizenship and public authority in northern Kenya
Principal investigator
Principal investigator
Overview
Description
Community health workers (CHWs) have become the backbone to primary health care delivery in many low-income settings; most are unsalaried. The project adopts a critical, historical lens to community voluntarism as promoted by global health agencies, NGOs and the state. It combines with ethnography and life histories in Isiolo to understand how voluntary labour is actualised today.
The project is funded by UK's Wellcome Trust and runs from 2021-25 and works in partnership with the Department of Anthropology, Gender and African Studies at the University of Nairobi.
- Articles
'Our hands are bound': Pathways to community health labour in Kenya
Dodworth & Mukungu (2023), Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 332 (Open Access)- Briefings
Digitizing Community Health in Kenya: Insights from Community Health Volunteers
Brenda N. Mukungu, Kathy Dodworth and Charles Owuor Olungah
- Posters
- Podcasts & Blogs
Nov 2023, Dispossession and voluntarism on 'The Kenyanist'
Community health: radical revolution or conservative coloniality? Kathy writes for SKAPE
May 2023, Global Development Institute Podcast
Further information
Further information
Research themes
- Global health policy
- Health & Well-being
- Historical approaches to science, technology and medicine
- International development
- Public anthropology
- Social studies of biology and medicine
- Work & Economy