缅北禁地

My background is in medical anthropology and the social anthropology of South Asia and Tibet. Previously I have worked at Edinburgh University teaching anthropology, as co-ordinator of the programmes in the Center for South Asian Studies, and as part of a team of researchers looking at access to medicines in India, Uganda and South Africa.

I have also worked as Research Associate at Cardiff University on a research project focusing on a Tibetan medical hospital and school in west Tibet, and traditional medical practice in northeast Tibet. Before coming to 缅北禁地 I worked in the Global Health Unit at Queen Mary University of London, first as Research Fellow in Social and Cultural Aspects of Clinical Trials and then as Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology and co-ordinator of the BSc in Global Health and the intercalated BSc in Global Health.

I am currently Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology in the Population Health Sciences Institute, Senior Tutor, Public Health, Oncology and Clinical Research, and Global Health Module Lead

I have carried out extensive fieldwork in Nepal, India and Tibet on various aspects of traditional medical practice, the use of ritual in healing, the Bon religion of Tibet, and forms social and political identity, mostly in the Himalayan region. I carried out my first fieldwork on patterns of pluralistic health care in Ladakh, the north-east Himalayan region of the Indian State of Kashmir and Jammu in 1992. In 1996 I carried out 18 months fieldwork on learning processes in a Tibetan medical school and health care practices in the Tibetan medicine clinic in the valley of Dhorpatan in the Baglung district of west Nepal. From 2002, I carried out research over a period 2 years in clinics of Tibetan medicine in the United Kingdom. In 2008 I was awarded a grant by the Leverhulme Trust for £150,256 to carry out a 3 year project on ‘Tradition and Modernity in a Bon Medical School and Hospital in West Tibet (£150,256). In 2012, I was employed at Edinburgh University as Research Fellow, on a 3 year research project funded under the European Union’s Framework 7, Accessing Medicines in Africa and South Asia (AMASA). The research focused on the supply chain of six essential medicines in South Africa, Uganda and India. In the last decade my research has increasingly focused on the social and cultural aspects of medical technologies, access to medicine, medicine regulation and global health.

Research Expertise

• Global Health and Global Health Governance
• Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals
• The regulation of Medical Technologies
• Asian Medicine
• Complementary and Alternative Medicines
• Social Networks
• The Anthropology of Tibet and South Asia

I am currently Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology in the Population Health Sciences Institute, Senior Tutor, Public Health, Oncology and Clinical Research, and Global Health Module Lead

Supervision

I am currently supervising 2 PhD students. I am happy to supervise new research students whose projects are within my research expertise.

• Articles

  • Wang Y, Rathbone AP, Millard C. . Social Sciences and Humanities Open 2024, 10, 101045.
  • Baldeh A, Millard C, Pollock AM, Brhlikova P. . Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice 2023, 16, 18.
  • Millard C, Kadam AB, Mahajan R, Pollock AM, Brhlikova P. . Journal of Global Health 2018, 8(1), 010402.
  • Millard C, Brhlikova P, Pollock A. . Social Science and Medicine 2015, 132, 190-196.
  • Millard C, Pollock AM, Brhlikova P. . BMJ 2014, 349, g4823.
  • Soktsang LD, Millard C. Diversity in Unity: The Changing Forms of Tibetan Medicine. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 2013, 7(13).
  • Millard C. . East Asian Science, Technology and Society 2013, 7(3), 353-379.
  • Millard C. The Life and Medical Legacy of Khyung sprul ’Jig med nam-mkha’i rdo rje (1897-1955). East and West (special edition, New Horizons in Bon Studies vol 2) IsIAO, Rome 2009.
  • Millard C. Tibetan Medicine in the Context of Changing European Legislation on Herbal Medicine and Statutory Legislation. The Journal of Traditional Tibetan Medicine 2007, 1(1).
  • Millard C. 2006 sMan and gLud: Standard Tibetan Medicine and Ritual Medicine in a Bon Medical School and Clinic in Nepal . The Tibet Journal, Special Edition on Tibetan Medicine (guest eds.) A. Boesi and F. Cardi 2006.

• Book Chapters

  • Millard C, Samphel N. . In: Yungdrung TY; Ramble C, ed. Celebrating 100 Years of Wisdom: Honouring His Eminence Yongdzin Lopon Tenzin Namdak Rinpoche's 100th Birthday. Kathmandu: Vajra Publications Inc. Pvt. Ltd, 2025, pp.353-378.
  • Millard C, Samphel N. . In: Ehm CC; Cueppers C, ed. Walking Nebulous Mountain Slopes: Exploring Healing Practices in the Himalayas. Lumbini, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2024.
  • Millard C, Samphel N. . In: Ehm CC; Cueppers C, ed. Walking Nebulous Mountain Slopes: Exploring Healing Practices in the Himalayas. Lumbini, Nepal: Lumbini International Research Institute, 2024.
  • Millard C. . In: Ramble, C; Roesler, U, ed. Tibetan and Himalayan Healing: an Anthology for Anthony Aris. Vajra Books, 2015.
  • Millard C. Bon Religion in Reb kong. In: Dhondup,Y. Pagel,U. Samuel,G, ed. Monastic and Lay Traditions in North-Eastern Tibet. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
  • Millard C. Illness Narratives and Idioms of Meaning in Two Tibetan Medical Clinics, forthcoming. In: Schrempf, M; Craig, A; Garrett, F; Tshomo, M, ed. Medicine, Health, and Modernity: Proceedings from the XIth International Association of Tibetan Studies Meetings. Bonn: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, Contributions to Research on Central Asia Series, 2010.
  • Millard C. The Integration of Tibetan Medical Practice in the UK: the Clinics of the Tara Institute of Tibetan Medicine. In: Pordie, L, ed. Tibetan Medicine in the Contemporary World: Global Politics of Medical Knowledge and Practice. 2008.
  • Millard C. Tibetan Medicine and the Classification and Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders. In: Schrempf, M, ed. Soundings in Tibetan Medicine: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives, Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies 2003. 2007. In Preparation.
  • Millard C. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: An Overview With Some Perceptions from the Valley of Dhorpatan. In: Gellner, D, ed. Resistance and the State in Nepal. 2002.
  • Millard C. Democracy and Dissent in Nepal: an Overview with Some Perceptions from the Valley of Dhorpatan. In: Gellner, D, ed. Resistance and the State in Nepal. New Delhi: Social Science Press. (New edition 2006 from Berghahn, Oxford and New York), 2002. In Preparation.

• Online Publication

  • Millard C. . The Swaddle, 2018. Available at: .