Jennifer Creese

University of Leicester - Global Challenges Teaching Award: Health Inequality

Dr Jennifer Creese is a social anthropologist with a focus on healthcare, particularly organisational cultures of healthcare work, health worker migration, health inequalities and ethnic minority experiences in healthcare. She holds a PhD in Social Science from The University of Queensland, Australia (2020), in which she explored experiences of religious minorities within Australian multiculturalism. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland (2020-2022) where her work explored emigration of Irish doctors and experiences of medical working conditions during Covid-19.

As a Lecturer in Health Services Research at the University of Leicester since 2022, her research interests include inclusive in maternity, respiratory and autism & learning disability healthcare provision, workplace wellbeing of healthcare staff, and ethnically-diverse staff involvement in patient safety. She teaches Population and Social Science at Leicester Medical School, and is passionate about equipping students with critical social insights behind biomedicine for holistic patient-focused healthcare and health promotion. She has a strong interest in increasing diversity and inclusion within the healthcare workforce, and fostering empathy and cultural humility. This Fulbright will give her the opportunity to empower students as critically aware global health advocates and build relationships between the UK and USA.

Jennifer is joined by her institutional team: Peter Hough and Terese Bird.