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 |
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Term 2 office hours and comms policy: I normally try to respond to emails on the same day, but expect up to 3 working days (excl. weekends) for your queries to be processed. I don't regularly monitor MS Teams outside of the office hours above - please better contact me via email to avoid disappointment. |
| Teaching roles GSD Project (Contributor) Health and Sust. Dev't (Convenor) Dissertation (Co-Convenor) |
| Administrative roles SCFS Ethics Officer (GSD and LA Moodle spaces) |
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Research interests
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ORCID  0000-0002-5849-7131 |
ResearchGate  Research Profile |
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Podcast Interview: On Social Science and Medicine
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Podcast Interview: Socio-Medical Research
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WICID Methods Lab Podcast: Policy Analysis
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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:
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Satellite-powered remote sensing approaches for more inclusive forest conservation policy (Principal investigator, Royal Academy of Engineering, £29,865): Proof of concept research to stimulate more inclusive satellite-informed conservation policy in Thailand, Malaysia, and Madagascar |
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Activity Spaces and Household Exclusion from Food Environments (IMMANA Competitive Research Grant: £249,351, PI: C.S. Srinivasan): Study of physical and social food environments in Thailand and Lao PDR using innovative accelerometer data collection. | |
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Low-cost water purification at the household level in Kabul (Principal investigator, Royal Academy of Engineering, £15,730; co-PI with Daud Mohammad Hamidi): Pump-priming research into the uses and social development consequences of clay-based water filtration in urban Kabul. |
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Learning space: education and its pathways to health belief and behaviours (EUTOPIA, Institute of Advanced Study, Institutional Research Support Fund, GRP Connecting Cultures: £157,200; co-PI with Thipphaphone Xayavong): Interrogating the link between education, health behaviour and rural livelihoods of indigenous peoples. | |
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What if precarity causes drug resistance? (Principal investigator, Global Research Priority on International Development & Institute of Advanced Study, £6,000): Leading interdisciplinary and international team to pump-prime research into the structural drivers of drug resistance. |
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Dynamism of land use and livelihood strategies among highland ethnic minorities in Northern Thailand (Principal investigator, GCRF Catalyst Fund, ESRC Impact Accelerator Account, and Warwick Policy Support Fund: £74,119): Interdisciplinary and art-based study of livelihood change and adaptation among Indigenous highland groups. | |
| Antibiotics and Activity Spaces: An Exploratory Study of Behaviour, Marginalisation, and Knowledge Diffusion (Principal investigator, ESRC, £237,633): Health behaviour and social network surveys with 5,885 villagers in Thailand and Lao PDR on the social context of antibiotic use. |  |
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Protected Areas and People: Exploring perceived wisdoms surrounding natural resource management and sustainability (Social research lead, GCRF Catalyst Fund, £16,300, PI: Jessica Savage): Policy research on the social consequences of marine protection in Cambodia. | |
| Supply-induced demand for antibiotics among marginalised populations in Northern Thailand (Principal investigator, University of Oxford Medical Sciences Division Internal Fund, £9,380): Mixed-method research on the evolution of antibiotic supply and demand. |  |
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Advancing Realist Evaluation Approaches for Public Engagement: Health-Themed Science Theatre in Thailand (Principal Investigator, Oxford University Public Engagement with Research Fund, £3,500): Innovative realist evaluation of public engagement with science. | |
| The impact of C-reactive protein testing on antibiotic prescription in febrile patients attending primary care in low-resource settings (Social research lead, Wellcome Trust, £98,750, PI: Yoel Lubell): Mixed-methods research on social context of biomarker tests in Thailand and Myanmar. |  |
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Mobile technologies and health: a pilot study in India and China (Co-investigator, John Fell OUP Research Fund, PI: Proochista Ariana, £28,068): Mixed-methods research on the social implications of phone diffusion, esp. rural healthcare access. | |
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 including the Warwick Award for Personal Tutoring Excellence 2021 and the 2018 University of Oxford Student Union 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.
Among my engagement work are also funded networking and conference events, including:
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Hosting visiting scholar at University of Warwick (EUTOPIA Researcher Mobility Grant: £1,524): Hosting Prof Elizabeth Auclair from CY Cergy Paris Université to explore heritage-sensitive sustainability policy | |
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Exploring behavioural impacts of agricultural insurance in Thailand (Principal investigator, Institute of Advanced Study and WICID, £4,100): Exchange with Thai policy researchers to understand links between agricultural finance and health behaviour. |
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GCRF Knowledge Exchange Dialogues: International Network for Socio-Medical Research, Public Engagement, and Evaluation (Convener, Oxford ESRC IAA, £7,399): A network of academic and non-academic collaborators to intensify intersectorial conversations. | |
| Exchange in International Development Across UK Doctoral Training Centres (Principal Investigator, Oxford ESRC DTC Interdisciplinary Project Grant, £1,300): Workshop at Oxford University to host an interdisciplinary network of UK international development students. |  |
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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, Savage, J, Yeboah, G, Charoenboon, N & Srenh, S. (2021). In a network of lines that intersect: the socio-economic development impact of marine resource management and conservation in Southeast Asia. World Development, 146, 105576. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105576 | |
| Haenssgen, MJ, Charoenboon, N, Thavethanutthanawin, P & Wibunjak, K. (2021). Tales of treatment and new perspectives for global health research on antimicrobial resistance. Medical Humanities, 47(4), e10. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-011894 | |
| 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 | |
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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 | |
| 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 | |
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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 |
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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 | |
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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 |
Data sets
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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 |
Published correspondence, commentary, book reviews
| Haenssgen, MJ, Lechner, AM, Rakotonarivo, S, Leepreecha, P, Sakboon, M et al. (2022). Implementation of the COP26 declaration to halt forest loss must safeguard and include Indigenous people. Nature Ecology & Evolution. doi: 10.1038/s41559-021-01650-6 | |
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Haenssgen MJ (2021). Commentary: sustainable development as theme and platform for interdisciplinary undergraduate research. Reinvention: an International Journal of Undergraduate Research, 14(1):823. doi:10.31273/reinvention.v14i1.823 |
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| 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). 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 |