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Ms. Emily Freeman
Affiliation
Research Degree Student, London School of Economics
Research Degree Student, London School of Economics
Address
London School of Economics
Department of Social Policy
Houghton Street
London
WC2A 2AE
UK
Contact
E.Freeman@lse.ac.uk
Biosketch
Ms Freeman is a PhD student at the London School of Economics concerned with HIV among older people in Kenya. She holds an MSc in Demography and Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and a BA in Geography from the University of Cambridge. Ms Freeman has worked in South Africa as a Junior Demographer at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal and has conducted research for a number of international health and development NGOs in which programmes were developed and coordinated by older people.
Key research/capacity building interests
Research Interests
- HIV/AIDS, sexual health and older people
- Poverty and health inequalities
- Ageing
- Social demography
- Population and development
Key methodological skills
- Qualitative research (in depth interviews, focus groups)
- Quantitative analysis of demographic and health data
Current/planned research
- PhD research ‘Sexually transmitted HIV among older people in Kenya: perceptions, attitudes, behaviour and risk.’