Dr Marco J Haenssgen
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Contact details |
Email: marco.haenssgen@warwick.ac.uk |
Tel.: Office ext. 23504 |
Room: R3.18, Ramphal Building |
Term 2 office hours and comms policy:
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Teaching roles GSD Project (Contributor) Health and Sust. Dev't (Convenor) Dissertation (Co-Convenor) |
Administrative roles SCFS Ethics Officer (GSD and LA Moodle spaces) |
Research interests Human behaviour | policy implementation | marginalisation | socio-technological change | global health | evaluation | public engagement ![]() |
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Podcast Interview: Social Science & Medicine
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Podcast Interview: Socio-Medical Research
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Recent blogs and commentary
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Assistant Professor
Ethics Officer for the School for Cross-Faculty Studies
Associate Fellow, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Affiliated Researcher, Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University
Biography
I am a social scientist by training, holding a DPhil in International Development (2015) and MPhil in Development Studies (2012) from the University of Oxford and a BSc in General Management from the European Business School, Oestrich-Winkel (2009; now EBS University of Business and Law). After my doctoral research on the social implications of mobile technology diffusion in rural India and China, I took on a position as Postdoctoral Scientist - Health Policy and Systems at the Centre of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford. I joined Warwick as Assistant Professor in Global Sustainable Development in January 2019. Outside of academia, I have worked as a development economist and consultant for German development agencies (DEG, KfW), and I have work experience in aid evaluation, management consulting, and intergovernmental policy making at the United Nations.
Research
I am a mixed-methods researcher in development studies, focusing geographically on Asia and thematically on human behaviour and policy implementation in contexts of marginalisation and societal change (e.g. technology diffusion). My research currently investigates the social context of antimicrobial resistance (a global health priority), exploring rural healthcare-seeking behaviours, how people understand antibiotics and illness, their constraints in accessing healthcare, and the intended and unintended consequences of health interventions. With my return from tropical medicine back to the field of global sustainable development, I am applying similar questions to other domains such as employment search and government service access. My recent research projects and initiatives include:
Teaching
At the Department for Global Sustainable Development, I am leading the second-year module on Health and Sustainable Development and the third-year Dissertation module (with Dr Gioia Panzarella), and I am contributing to the first-year Global Sustainable Development Project. Prior to joining Warwick, I taught on the graduate level at the University of Oxford, where I led or co-led modules on International Development and Health, Critical Engagement, and Health Policy and Systems Research in the MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine. I have also provided training on interdisciplinary research methods and survey research to graduate students across the social sciences, supervised MSc student theses (yielding a student publication in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene), and provided pastoral care as college advisor. My students awarded me twice with a junior teacher award in the MSc International Health and Tropical Medicine and nominated me for university-wide teaching awards.
Engagement and impact
My research and teaching place strong emphasis on capacity building, non-academic engagement, and research impact. One example of impact is the uptake of the research in the international media (e.g. in the New Statesman, Chiang Rai Times, the Southeast Asia Globe, or on SciDevNet) and contributions to debates through research blogs and social media. As part of the public engagement with science, my research involved, for instance, bi-directional educational activities with villagers in Thailand and Laos - providing a platform for sharing ideas but also for the survey teams to learn from villagers. The same project also supported the team in cultivating their own ideas through internship opportunities to build local research capacity. This culminated in the international photo exhibition "Tales of Treatment," which we hosted at the Warwick Arts Centre, in Bangkok, Oxford, and Chiang Rai (Thailand) and which in itself has inspired new ideas around global health challenges that would have remained invisible without the team's enthusiastic work.
Publications
Monograph
Haenssgen, MJ (2020). Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research in Global Development: A Concise Guide. Bingley: Emerald. doi: 10.1108/9781839092299 |
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Haenssgen, MJ, Closser, S & Alonge, O. (2021). Impact and effect mechanisms of mass campaigns in resource-constrained health systems: quasi-experimental evidence from polio eradication in Nigeria. BMJ Global Health, 6, e004248. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-004248 | |
Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N & Zanello, G. (2021). You've got a friend in me: how social networks and mobile phones facilitate healthcare access among marginalised groups in rural Thailand and Lao PDR. World Development, 137, 105156. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2020.105156 | |
Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Xayavong, T & Althaus, T. (2020). Precarity and clinical determinants of healthcare-seeking behaviour and antibiotic use in rural Laos and Thailand. BMJ Global Health, 5, e003779. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2020-003779 | |
Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Thavethanutthanawin, P & Wibunjak, K. (2020). Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance. Medical Humanities. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-011894 | |
Haenssgen, MJ. (2019). New impulses from international development for more comprehensive and balanced public engagement evaluation. Global Health Action, 12(Suppl. 1), 1680067. doi: 10.1080/16549716.2019.1680067 |
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Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Zanello, G, Mayxay, M, Reed-Tsochas, F, Lubell, Y et al. (2019). Antibiotic knowledge, attitudes, and practices: new insights from cross-sectional rural health behaviour surveys in low- and middle-income Southeast Asia. BMJ Open, 9: e028224. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028224
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Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Thuy, NDT, Althaus, T, Khine Zaw, Y et al. (2019). How context can impact clinical trials: a multi-country qualitative case study comparison of diagnostic biomarker test interventions. Trials, 20: 111. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3215-9
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Charoenboon, N, Haenssgen, MJ, Warapikuptanun, P, Xayavong, T & Khine Zaw, Y (2019). Translating AMR: A case study of context and consequences of antibiotic-related communication in three northern Thai villages. Palgrave Communications, 5(23). doi: 10.1057/s41599-019-0226-9
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Althaus, T, Greer, RC, …, Haenssgen, MJ et al. (2019). Randomised controlled trial of point-of-care C-reactive protein testing on antibiotic prescription in febrile patients attending primary care in South-East Asia. Lancet Global Health, 7(1), E119-E131. doi: 10.1016/S2214-109X(18)30444-3 |
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Haenssgen, MJ (2019). Manifestations, drivers, and frictions of mobile phone use in low- and middle-income settings: a mixed methods analysis of rural India and China. Journal of Development Studies, 55(8), 1834-1858. doi: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1453605 | |
Haenssgen, MJ, Xayavong, T, Charoenboon, N, Warapikuptanun, P & Khine Zaw, Y (2018). The consequences of AMR education and awareness raising: outputs, outcomes, and behavioural impacts of an antibiotic-related educational activity in Lao PDR. Antibiotics, 7(4), 95. doi: 10.3390/antibiotics7040095
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Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Zanello, G, Mayxay, M, Reed-Tsochas, F, Jones, COH et al. (2018). Antibiotics and activity spaces: protocol of an exploratory study of behaviour, marginalisation, and knowledge diffusion. BMJ Global Health, 3, e000621. doi: 10.1136/bmjgh-2017-000621
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Khine Zaw, Y, Charoenboon, N, Haenssgen, MJ & Lubell, Y (2018). A comparison of patients’ local conceptions of illness and medicines in the context of C-reactive protein biomarker testing in Chiang Rai and Yangon. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 98(6), 1661-1760. doi: 10.4269/ajtmh.17-0906
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Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Althaus, T, Greer, RC, Intralawan, D & Lubell, Y (2018). The social role of C-reactive protein point-of-care testing to guide antibiotic prescription in northern Thailand. Social Science & Medicine, 202, 1-12. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.02.018
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Haenssgen, MJ (2018). The struggle for digital inclusion: phones, healthcare, and sharp elbows in rural India. World Development, 104, 358-374. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.12.023
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Haenssgen, MJ & Ariana, P (2018). The place of technology in the capability approach. Oxford Development Studies, 46(1), 98-112. doi: 10.1080/13600818.2017.1325456
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Haenssgen, MJ (2017). Impact of high-intensity polio eradication activities on children’s routine immunisation status in Northern India [Editor’s Choice]. Health Policy and Planning, 32(6), 800-808. doi: 10.1093/heapol/czx022 | |
Haenssgen, MJ & Ariana, P (2017). The social implications of technology diffusion: uncovering the unintended consequences of people’s health-related mobile phone use in rural India and China. World Development, 94, 286-304. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2017.01.014
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Haenssgen, MJ & Ariana, P (2017). Healthcare access: a sequence-sensitive approach. Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 3, 37-47. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2016.11.008
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Haenssgen, MJ (2015). Exploring the mismatch between mobile phone adoption and use through survey data from rural India and China. Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), 1-15. doi: 10.1109/ISTAS.2015.7439402 | |
Haenssgen, MJ (2015). Satellite-aided survey sampling and implementation in low- and middle-income contexts: a low-cost/low-tech alternative. Emerging Themes in Epidemiology, 12(20). doi: 10.1186/s12982-015-0041-8
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Data sets
Haenssgen, MJ, Zanello, G, Mayxay, M et al. (2019). Antibiotics and activity spaces: an exploratory study of behaviour, marginalisation, and knowledge diffusion [data set]. Colchester: UK Data Service. doi: 10.5255/UKDA-SN-853658 |
Practitioner-oriented publications, commentary, and reviews
Tompson, A. C., Kamenshchikova, A., …Haenssgen MJ et al. (2021). Addressing antibiotic use: insights from social science around the world. A report collated with social scientists of the Antimicrobials in Society Hub. London: London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. doi:10.17037/PUBS.04659562 |
Haenssgen, MJ (2020). Interdisciplinary research in practice: Lessons from “Antibiotics and Activity Spaces” in Thailand and Laos. Bingley: Emerald. |
Charoenboon, N & Haenssgen, MJ (2018). ยาปฏิชีวนะและพื้นที่กิจกรรม: ความสัมพันธ์ของ พฤติกรรม การกีดกันทางสัมคม และการกระจายความรู้ [Antibiotics and activity spaces: an exploratory study of behaviour, marginalisation, and knowledge diffusion] [poster]. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22632.93441 |
Haenssgen, MJ & Charoenboon, N (2018). Antibiotics and activity spaces: an exploratory study of behaviour, marginalisation, and knowledge diffusion [poster]. doi: 10.13140/RG.2.2.15567.33448 |
Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N & Khine Zaw, Y (2018). It is time to give social research a voice to tackle AMR. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 73(4), 1112-1113. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkx533 |
Haenssgen, MJ (2017). Full evaluation report: Informing realist evaluation of health-themed public engagement activities: Lessons from Thai science drama to raise awareness for antimicrobial resistance and research with children. |
Haenssgen, MJ (2017). A rich man’s world: biases of big data in a development context. Asia-Pacific Tech Monitor, 34(4), 24-29. |
Haenssgen, MJ (2017). After Access: Inclusion, Development, and a More Mobile Internet [book review]. Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 18(1), 137-139. doi: 10.1080/19452829.2017.1284950 |
Haenssgen, MJ & Nohr, S (2013). The side-effects of targeted health interventions: a systematic approach to analysing the systemic impacts of social marketing for HIV prevention. Frankfurt: KfW Development Bank. |
Haenssgen, MJ (2010). Keine Flaute in Sicht: Wachstumsmöglichkeiten im Windenergiesektor [Development opportunities in India’s wind power sector]. IndienContact, 1, 21-22. |