Dr Nancy Tamimi is a Senior Lecturer in Global Health & Social Medicine in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM). She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). Previously, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate, Teaching Fellow and a Lecturer in GHSM. 

Nancy was trained as a dentist and holds a master's degree in the Science of Dental Public Health and a PhD in Medical Sociology.

Her PhD work focused on tobacco harm reduction strategies. It was one of the first sociological studies that addressed the perception of electronic cigarette use among users and stop-smoking advisers at the National Health Service in the UK in 2013.

Nancy worked for 4 years on the Global Challenge Research Fund project “Research for Health in Conflict MENA” which aimed to build research and policy capacity in conflict-affected areas. Nancy’s focus was on mental health. She co-designed and taught on courses directed at mental health professionals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).

She leads the GHSM Anti-Racism Steering Group, which aims to contribute to efforts to achieve race equality and to decolonise education and research in the fields of Global Health and Social Medicine and beyond.

Her current focus is on decolonising higher education. She led departmental workshops, symposiums, and designed courses on decolonising knowledge and research methods in global health. She co-founded the Decolonising Global Health Archive and the Palestine Global Health Collective newsletter.

Research

Nancy conducted research on the use of electronic cigarettes, capacity building, mental health, and decolonising higher education. She gained several internal grants to fund the decolonisation initiatives and student led projects.

Nancy can supervise PhD students on the following topics:

• Decolonisation
• Tobacco & Electronic cigarettes use
• Mental health
• Inequalities in health
• Qualitative research

Teaching

Undergraduate

• 4SSHM002 Inequalities in Global Health

• 5SSHM003 Qualitative Research Methods: Analysing Data

Postgraduate

• 7SSHM624 Decolonising Research Methods in Global Health 

Further details

See Nancy's research profile