Teesside University

Faculty Member, School of Health and Social Care

Senior Lecturer

About

After a degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Goldsmiths' College, Lisa Arai completed a MSc in Medical Demography at the Centre for Population Studies (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and a PhD at Queen Mary on neighbourhood effects on teenage pregnancy.


Dr Arai has worked in a variety of institutions including the Medical Research Council, City University, the Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education and the Open University. She has published papers on a range of topics, and has special interests in teenage pregnancy and motherhood, the surveillance of children and the family, factors affecting the implementation of interventions, evidence-based policy-making and practice and methodological innovation in the public health sciences.

Her book 'Teenage Pregnancy: the Making and Unmaking of a Problem' was published by the Policy Press in Summer 2009.

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