Handbook of Social Sciences and Global Public Health

lt;b>Pranee Liamputtong, PhD, is a medical anthropologist and Professor of Public Health at the School of Health Sciences, Western Sydney University in Australia. Pranee has a particular interest in issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing, and women's reproductive and sexual health. She works mainly with refugee and migrant women in Melbourne and with women in Asia (mostly in Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam). She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. Some of her books in the health and social sciences include The Journey of Becoming a Mother Amongst Women in Northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007); Community, Health and Population (Oxford University Press, 2009); Infant Feeding Practices: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer 2011); Motherhood and Postnatal Depression: Narratives of Women and Their Partners (Springer, 2011); Health, Illness and Well-Being: Perspectives and Social Determinants (Oxford University Press, 2012); Women, Motherhood and HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2013); Stigma, Discrimination and HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2013); Contemporary socio-cultural and political perspectives in Thailand (Springer, 2014); Children, Young People and Living with HIV/AIDS: A Cross-Cultural Perspective (Springer, 2016); Public health: Local and global perspectives (Cambridge University Press, 2016, with its second edition published in 2019); and Social Determinants of Health (Oxford University Press, 2019).

Pranee is a qualitative researcher and has also published several method books. Her most recent method books include: Researching the Vulnerable: A Guide to Sensitive Research Methods (Sage, 2007); Performing Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research (Cambridge University Press, 2010); Focus Group Methodology: Principles and Practice (Sage 2011, 2016); Qualitative Research Methods, 5th Edition (Oxford University Press, 2020); Using Participatory Qualitative Research methodologies in Health (Sage, 2015); Research Methods in Health: Foundations for Evidence-Based Practice, 3rd ed. (Oxford University, 2017); and Handbook of Research Methods in Health Social Sciences (Springer, 2019). She is now working on the Handbook of Social Inclusion: Research and Practices in Health and Social Sciences, which will be published by Springer in the near future.

Research Methodologies, Social Sciences and Global health.- Research Methods, Social Sciences and Global health.- Social Science Research & The Health of Socially Excluded & Marginalized Groups.- Social Science Research, Sexuality, Sexual & Reproductive Health & Mental Health.-Social Sciences and Health Disciplines.- The Role of Social Science in Infectious Illnesses.- The Role of Social Sciences in Chronic Illnesses.- Theoretical Frameworks and Social Sciences.