Priscilla A. Magrath

Priscilla Magrath

Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Promotion Sciences
Priscilla Magrath

1295 N. Martin Ave
Drachman Hall
PO Box: 245163
Tucson, AZ 85724-5163

(520) 626-2850 – Not currently accepting doctoral graduate students
pmagrath@arizona.edu

Documents

Priscilla-Magrath-CV-2025.pdf

Priscilla Magrath, PhD, joined the College of Public Health in January 2018. She is a Medical Anthropologist specializing in global health, health policy and systems, and maternal and child health with a regional focus on Indonesia. She is especially interested in the use of moral frames such as the right to health in health policy and health promotion. Priscilla also provides training and mentoring in qualitative research methods to students and faculty.

Priscilla has more than 25 years’ experience as an engaged anthropologist working on programs including the Title V Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment for Arizona for Arizona Department of Health Services; IUWASH PLUS, Indonesia for USAID; Provincial Health Project, Indonesia for the World Bank; and Livelihoods Recovery through Agriculture Program for CARE Lesotho-South Africa. Dr Magrath gained her PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of Arizona, US, her MS in Agricultural Economics from the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia in the UK, and her BA in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University in the UK.

Publications

2022Magrath, P., & Nichter, M. Moral framing in health promotion: lessons from an Indonesian case study. Global Health Promotion 0(0), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1177/17579759221112559
2022Magrath, P. Regulating Midwives: Foreclosing Alternatives in the Policymaking Process in West Java, Indonesia. In Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice. Co-edited by Lauren Wallace, Margaret MacDonald and Katerini Storeng for Springer. 139-158. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84514-8_8
2019Magrath, Priscilla. “Right to Health: A Buzzword for Health Policy in Indonesia.” In Special Issue “Ethnographic Explorations of the Right to Health in Practice.” Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness. 38(6):464-447. DOI: 10.1080/01459740.2019.1604701 https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/wwVPjqsvVHITgJVfahVA/full?target=10.1080/01459740.2019.1604701
2012Magrath, Priscilla and Mark Nichter. “Paying for Performance and the Social Relations of Health Care Provision: An Anthropological Perspective.” Social Science and Medicine 75(10):1778-1785. https://www-sciencedirect-com.ezproxy3.library.arizona.edu/science/article/pii/S0277953612005667
2010Magrath, Priscilla. “Beyond Governmentality: Building Theory for Weak and Fragile States,” Anthropology Matters Journal 12(2):1-18. https://www.anthropologymatters.com/index.php/anth_matters/article/view/208
1997Magrath, Priscilla, Julia Compton, Anthony Ofosu and Felix Motte. “Cost-benefit Analysis of Client Participation in Agricultural Research: A Case Study from Ghana,” Agricultural Research and Extension Network Paper No.74b, Overseas Development Institute, London, UK.

Courses Taught

  • Global Health
  • Global Health Systems
  • Global Maternal Health
  • Qualitative Methods

Degrees

  • MS, PhD