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Amy Paterson
MBChB MSc Med
DPhil Student
Amy is a DPhil student in the Epidemic diseases clinical research group (ERGO). Her research focuses on stigma associated with emerging infectious diseases with the aim of developing a cross-outbreak stigma assessment tool. She is supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and supervised by Professor Piero Olliaro, Dr Amanda Rojek, Dr Nina Gobat, and Dr Ashleigh Cheyne.
Amy received her MBChB and MSc Med from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and worked as a clinician in her home province of KwaZulu-Natal before joining the University of Oxford. She is a passionate advocate for equitable, person-centred healthcare.
Recent publications
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The (Re)-emerging And ePidemic Infectious Diseases (RAPID) Stigma Scales: a cross-outbreak scale development and pyschometric validation study
Journal article
Paterson A. et al, (2025), The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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Embedding treatment in stronger care systems
Journal article
Rojek A. et al, (2024), The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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The Virulence of Otherness
Journal article
Paterson A., (2024), Annals of Internal Medicine, 177, 1284 - 1284
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Systematic Review of Scales for Measuring Infectious Disease–Related Stigma
Journal article
Paterson A. et al, (2024), Emerging Infectious Diseases, 30
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Tenderness
Journal article
Paterson AF., (2024), JAMA, 331, 620 - 620