Professor Hayley MacGregor trained as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town in South Africa and worked clinically in the Eastern Cape Province. She pursued further studies in Social Anthropology and completed a PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2003 on the experience of mental disturbance in a low-income urban settlement in South Africa.
Her research interests include emerging infectious disease and pandemic preparedness; the anthropology of antimicrobial resistance; informality in health provision; and concepts of care and chronicity in responses to lifelong illness, principally HIV. Her primary ethnographic work has been in South Africa but she has also done research elsewhere in Africa, and in SE Asia.
She is a Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health at the Institute of Development Studies in the Health and Nutrition research cluster. She retains clinical registration with the General Medical Council of the UK, with an honorary contract in clinical psychiatry and an honorary research professorship at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School. She is also a member of the Health Professions Council of South Africa.
