Georgina Pearson is an LSE Fellow in the Department of International Development of the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She teaches on International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies consultancy programme (DV453) and supports the DV410 Dissertation course.  She has previously taught on Global Health and Development (DV421) and African Development (DV418).

Georgina’s research investigates global health priorities from an interdisciplinary, biosocial perspective. Her main research interests include: methods and ethics in health research; local understandings of health, illness, disease and public health interventions; Uganda; fisherfolk; neglected diseases and their control.  Georgina’s PhD, Global health, local realities: neglected diseases in northwestern Uganda, was based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork and epidemiological study exploring everyday realities of neglected diseases (schistosomiasis, Buruli ulcer and hepatitis) among fishermen and women. 

Georgina has an undergraduate medical degree (MBChB) from the University of Birmingham, a Masters in Medical Anthropology from Brunel University and a PhD in International Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She has Diplomate Membership of the UK Faculty of Public Health of the Royal College of Physicians, and is also a Clinical Teaching Fellow in Public Health at St George’s, University of London.