Authors
L Dikomitis1; 1 Kent and Medway Medical School, UK Discussion
With the increasing calls for large multidisciplinary teams in global health research, anthropologists work now more than ever together with parasitologists. Such interdisciplinary global health research relies on the collaboration among researchers from radically different academic fields, people in and across various communities, societies and countries. Researchers working on these projects often experience competing demands and obligations to and from the local communities in which they work; to and from team members in the different countries; to and from health policy makers; and to and from funding bodies. Added to this mix is the pressure to maintain a consistent level of academic rigour as conventional in their own 'home' discipline, reflexivity and comprehensibility across field sites, cultures and contexts. In this talk, anthropologist Professor Dikomitis will reflect on the nexus of anthropology and parasitology in such global health research, drawing on her experiences of working with parasitologists and researcher from other academic disciplines in her global health research (including the ECLIPSE programme she co-leads with parasitologist Professor Helen Price, www.eclipse-community.com). 
