Contact details

Email: marco.haenssgen@warwick.ac.uk

Tel.: Office ext. 23504; +44 (0) 7771 805068

Room: R3.18, Ramphal Building

Office hours Wed 2-3pm: Teams video call (by appointment) Fri 2-3pm: Teams chat drop-in

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

ORCID  0000-0002-5849-7131

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Recent blogs and commentary Changing the context of drug resistance Working across the social and medical sciences Superbug awareness campaigns might fail Rural survey innovation in developing countries Tales of treatment and global health crisis Eyes in the sky can cut survey costs Fighting superbugs with management thinking Hardship, antibiotics, and markets for solutions Against the myth of mobile phone ubiquity The tyranny of digital inclusion Obscuring AMR’s language problem Mobiles and healthcare: digital fast lanes? Big data and the SDGs Mobile Internet use in rural India and China

Assistant Professor

Ethics Officer for the School for Cross-Faculty Studies
Associate Fellow, Warwick Institute of Advanced Study
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

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:

Exploring behavioural spill-overs in a nationwide agricultural insurance field experiment in Thailand (Principal investigator, Institute of Advanced Study and Warwick Interdisciplinary Centre for International Development, £4,100): Pump-priming research into linkages between agricultural insurance uptake and health-related behaviour in Thailand.
	Dynamism of land use and livelihood strategies among highland ethnic minorities in Northern Thailand: Co-producing narratives of change (Principal investigator, GCRF Catalyst Fund, £19,793): Interdisciplinary study with Thai collaborators using innovative narrative co-production to study livelihood change and adaptation among marginalised groups.
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
	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 to understand social consequences of marine protected areas in Cambodia.
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 rural Thailand and Lao PDR to understand the social context of antibiotic use.
	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.
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.
	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 to reduce antibiotic use in Thailand and Myanmar
	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
Exchange in International Development Across UK Doctoral Training Centres (Principal Investigator, Oxford ESRC DTC Interdisciplinary Project Grant, £1,300): An interdisciplinary network of UK international development students

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 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, Charoenboon, N, Xayavong, T & Althaus, T. (in press). Precarity and clinical determinants of healthcare-seeking behaviour and antibiotic use in rural Laos and Thailand. BMJ Global Health.
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, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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

Comments, reviews, and practitioner-oriented publications

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.