Rate My Professor Lisa Dikomitis

Lisa Dikomitis is Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Sciences and Director of Warwick Applied Health at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick. She is an NIHR Senior Investigator whose research integrates medical anthropology into mental health research, clinical trials, and applied global health research. She holds undergraduate degrees in Education and Art History and Archaeology from KU Leuven, Belgium, a Master's degree and PhD in Comparative Sciences of Cultures (Anthropology) from Ghent University, awarded in March 2010, and a PGCert in Academic Practice from the University of Hull in 2015. Previously, she was Professor of Medical Anthropology and Social Sciences at Kent and Medway Medical School, University of Kent, and Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Health at Keele University.

Her research specializations encompass socio-cultural aspects of health and illness, utilizing ethnographic and creative methods across global contexts including Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, Belgium, and the UK. Key areas include forced migration and conflict effects, non-communicable diseases, health systems, neglected tropical diseases in underserved areas, humanitarian public health, primary care interventions for mental health and self-harm, musculoskeletal pain, and medical education. She leads or co-leads projects such as the MRC-AHRC funded SOLACE on humanitarian public health in the Philippines, ECLIPSE on cutaneous leishmaniasis, INTERACT, and mental health initiatives in Pakistan including STOPS+. Major publications include the monograph Cyprus and Its Places of Desire: Cultures of Displacement among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees (Bloomsbury, 2012), forthcoming Culture, Health and Illness (Routledge), and edited volume When God Comes to Town: Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts (Berghahn Books, 2009). Recent articles feature in The British Journal of Psychiatry (e.g., 'Why psychiatry needs ethnography', 2025; impact of trauma on refugees, 2025), BMJ Open, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases (psychosocial burden of cutaneous leishmaniasis, 2024), and Health Expectations (self-harm management, 2024).