Dr Vic McGowan

Dr Vic McGowan is a Medical Anthropologist whose research interests focus on the political economy of health inequalities, examining the structural processes that drive differences in health outcomes across places.

She views health inequalities as an example of structural violence impacting the most vulnerable people in society and is a matter of social justice.

She is an interdisciplinary social scientist with expertise across applied public health, anthropology, and health geography.

Methodologically she is a highly experienced qualitative researcher with particular expertise in advanced qualitative skills in longitudinal methods, co-produced data collection and analysis, participatory research, and ethnography.

She is also experienced in using Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) to examine how multiple complex factors can influence health outcomes.