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Pranee Liamputtong holds a Personal Chair in Public Health at the School of Public Health, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. Pranee has previously taught in the School of Sociology and Anthropology and worked as a public health research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Mothers' and Children's Health, La Trobe University. Pranee has a particular interest in issues related to cultural and social influences on childbearing, childrearing and women's reproductive and sexual health. She has published several books and a large number of papers in these areas. 



Her books in the health area include: Maternity and reproductive health in Asian societies (with Lenore Manderson, Harwood Academic Press, 1996); Hmong women and reproduction (Bergin & Garvey, 2000); Coming of age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, courtship and sexuality (with Lenore Manderson, Curzon Press, 2002); Health, social change and communities (with Heather Gardner, Oxford University Press, 2003); The journey of becoming a mother amongst women in northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007);  Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood: A cross-cultural perspective(Nova Science, 2007);Childrearing and infant care: A cross-cultural perspective (Nova Science, 2007); and Community, health and population (with Sansnee Jirojwong, Oxford University Press, 2008). Her most recent books includeInfant feeding practices: A cross-cultural perspective (Springer, 2010),Motherhood and postnatal depression: Narratives of women and their partners, for Springer (with Carolyn Westall, Springer, 2011) and Health, illness and well-being: Perspectives and social determinants (with Rebecca Fanany and Glenda Verrinder, Oxford University Press, 2012).



Pranee is also the General Editor of Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Infectious Diseases series, which will be published by Springer.

Pranee has also published several method books. Her first method book is titled Qualitative