Dr Chris Opesen (Uganda)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Affiliations
Biography
Chris holds a PhD in Social Anthropology. He is a Lecturer in Makerere University-Uganda and a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Makerere-Exeter-Edinburgh Universities Collaboration Projects on Social Science Gene Drive Research in Uganda (2019-to date).
Between 2008-11, Chris worked as a Sociologist in the Artemisinin-Combination-Therapy for Malaria Facility Pilots in Uganda.
Expertise
Project social risk assessments, stakeholder engagements, participatory research and analysis, poverty and policy research, transborder-cultural/ritual and RH research.
Key Publication References
Ledingham K, Opesen C and Hartley S (R&R) The role of social scientists in gene drive research in Uganda and Mali Journal of Responsible Innovation
Hartley S, Smith RDJ, Kokotovich A, Opesen C, Habtewold T, Ledingham K, Raymond B, Rwabukwali CB 2021 Ugandan stakeholder hopes and concerns about gene drive mosquitoes for malaria control: new directions for gene drive risk governance Malaria Journal 20
Opesen C 2021 The Risk of Infertility in Women Infibulated in Childhood: Experiences of Pokot Women in East Africa. In: Wakana Shiino and Christine Mbabazi Mpyangu (Eds): Contemporary Gender and Sexuality in Africa: African-Japanese Anthropological Approach. Langaa RPCIG Langaa Research & Publishing Common Initiative Group, Mankon-Bamenda North West Region Cameroon in Collaboration with The Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University, Japan.
Opesen C 2019 Balancing Actions on Many “Borders”: Experiences of Mid-Wives Delivering Infibulated Teenage Mothers at the Pokot Kenya-Uganda Border Corridor. An article published in Leif Manger, Fekadu Adugna, Munzoul Assal and Eria Olowo Onyango (Eds): Borderland Dynamics in East Africa Cases from Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda. Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) Aug, 2019.
Bateganya FH, Kyomuhendo S, Jagwe-Wadda G, Opesen C 2008 Male Involvement in Uganda: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Follér ML., Thörn H. (eds) The Politics of AIDS. Palgrave Macmillan, London.