Senior Lecturer
Health Promotion Sciences Department
Biography
Priscilla Magrath, PhD, joined the College of Public Health in January 2018. She is a Medical Anthropologist specializing in global health policy and practice. Recent work in Indonesia has examined how global health policies are interpreted and implemented in the areas of decentralization, health insurance and maternal health. Priscilla is especially interested in the use of moral frames such as the right to health in health policy and health promotion.
Priscilla has extensive experience in international health programs including working with USAID on an ongoing major urban WASH program in Indonesia; with WaterAid on WASH access issues for people living with HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia; with CARE on the impact of HIV/AIDS on livelihoods in Lesotho; and with the World Bank on health care access, public accountability, decentralization and health financing in Indonesia.
Publications
| 2022 | Magrath, 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 |
| 2022 | Magrath, 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 |
| 2019 | Magrath, 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 |
| 2012 | Magrath, 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 |
| 2010 | Magrath, 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 |
| 1997 | Magrath, 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
