Anne Cockcroft
anne.cockroft [at] mcgill.ca (Anne Cockcroft MB BS MD FRCP FFOM)
Full Professor, Dept of Family Medicine
Anne Cockcroft is a clinician and global public health researcher with a background in respiratory and occupational medicine in the UK. Working with a research and training NGO Community Information for Empowerment and Transparency (CIET) since 1994, she has undertaken large scale community-based participatory research projects in some 20 countries, especially in South Asia and Southern Africa, and in Canada. She has studied access to and experience of health and other services by the most vulnerable, working with them, and with service providers and policy makers to use evidence to develop equitable and effective services. Most of her research is in resource-poor settings, including the poorest populations of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
In the last decade, her work has focused on co-designing interventions, implementing them, and measuring the impact. Her current projects include a trial to engage youth and communities to plan and implement activities to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Bauchi State, Nigeria; a study of engaging communities to support equitable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in Bauchi State, Nigeria; a pilot of involving older adults in participatory research to reduce the risk of dementia in Botswana; and a study of youth co-designing interventions to reduce both youth partner violence and youth suicide in Botswana.
Dr. Cockcroft also trains health planners and researchers in Southern Africa and South Asia in evidence-based planning, usually linked to projects there.
Recent and Current Projects: Nigeria home visits; Nigeria child spacing; Nigeria adolescent sexual and reproductive health (Adolescent sexual and reproductive health – PRAM); Nigeria COVID-19 recovery (Building on strength – PRAM); Botswana dementia prevention; Botswana prevention of youth IPV and suicide (Funding Decisions Database - CIHR).
Keywords: Global health, implementation research, participatory research, social audit, structural interventions, community-based research, HIV prevention, gender violence, maternal and child health, cluster randomised controlled trials.
