Julie Botticello Staff Profile

Dr Julie Botticello

Senior Lecturer in Public Health

Senior Lecturer

Public health

Department of Allied and Public Health , School of Health Sport and Bioscience

My work is situated at the intersection of moral anthropology, care ethics, and global health. I examine how postcolonial diasporic communities navigate everyday ethical decision-making amid structural constraint and systemic neglect. I am developing Diasporic Ethics, a theoretical framework that explores plural moral reasoning, moral translations, subaltern moral judgment, and care as co-existence.

Areas Of Interest

Anti-racism; infectious diseases and non-communicable; migrants and refugees; social determinants of health; social justice; structural inequalities.

Julie Botticello Staff Profile

OVERVIEW

Current interests for PhD students include:

  • Global Health and Structural Inequality: how systemic neglect, racism, and inequitable infrastructures shape health-seeking, responsibility, and vulnerability.
  • Migration, Belonging and Identity: how mobile and diasporic populations negotiate moral belonging, obligation, and survival across borders.
  • Care Ethics and Feminist Ethics: relational care, moral ambiguity, and structural constraint in reproductive, community, and global health contexts.

Completed PhD/MPhil students include:

  • Dr Ifeoma Dan-Ogosi: The impact of participatory budgeting on health and well-being: a qualitative case study of a deprived community in London.
  • Dr Nasrin Soltani: An exploratory study on the physical activity and dietary behaviours of Iranian immigrant and refugee women in the United Kingdom.
  • Ms Margaret Apwonyokwe: Structural violence and displaced people in Uganda: Acholi people and their experiences of war and forced displacement.

CURRENT RESEARCH

An anthropologist, I bring expertise in qualitative methods, including ethnographic practice and community-led research. My PhD addressed the well-being of Yoruba-Nigerian émigrés to the UK, through attention to diet, alternative medicines, social cohesion, and religious practice. My current research addresses the social determinants of health, with respect to migrant and otherwise marginalised groups, regarding inclusion in higher education and access to appropriate health care. Since 2015, I have collaborated with colleagues from Imperial College London, Public Health England, the National Health Service, Queen Mary, University of London, and community-based organisations to develop research and deliver health promotion initiatives.

TEACHING

  • Global health
  • Health promotion
  • Research proposal
  • Dissertation
  • Introduction to human health and disease
  • Local and global perspectives in health
  • Public health
  • Public health ethics and the law

EXTERNAL ROLES

  • Academic mentor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, USA.

Publications

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