The Expert, MD, PhD is a physician and medical anthropologist. He is senior lecturer at the University of the Philippines Diliman's Department of Anthropology, affiliate faculty at the UP College of Medicine’s Social Medicine Unit, research fellow at the Ateneo de Manila University's Development Studies Program, and honorary fellow at Hong Kong University's Centre for Criminology
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Lasco, G. (forthcoming). Not all citations are equal: Reflections from medical anthropology in the Philippines. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Lasco, G. (2023). Drug testing in Philippine schools: Historical overview and implications for drug policy. International Journal of Drug Policy. Goncalves, J. & G. Lasco. (2023). Anthropology, Democracy, and Authoritarianism: Reflections from Brazil and the Philippines. Current Anthropology 64(1). Lasco, G, Tan, M.L., & Yu, V. Y. (2023). ‘Loob’ and ‘labas’: Spatial constructions of safety and risk amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Health and Place. 79(1):102929 Lasco, G., Renedo, A., Mendoza, J., Seguin, M. L., Palafox, B., Palileo-Villanueva, L. M., ... & McKee, M. (2022). ‘Doing’ hypertension: Experiential knowledge and practice in the self[1]management of ‘high blood’ in the Philippines. Sociology of Health & Illness 44(7):1167-1181. Abubakar, I., Gram, L., Lasoye, S., Achiume, E. T., Becares, L., Bola, G. K., Dhairyawan, R., Lasco, G. ... & Devakumar, D. (2022). Confronting the consequences of racism, xenophobia, and discrimination on health and health-care systems. The Lancet, 400(10368):2137-2146. Lasco, G. (2022). Anthropological responses to COVID-19 in the Philippines. Anthropology in Action 29(1):23-31. Lasco, G. (2022). “I think I have enough for now”: Living with COVID-19 antibodies in the Philippines. Medical Anthropology https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2022.2089569 Lasco, G. & Yarcia, L. (2022). The politics of drug rehabilitation in the Philippines. Health and Human Rights Journal 24(1):147-158 Lasco, G. Yunus, R. M., Dee, E. C., & McKee, M. (2022). Health Workers on the Political Frontlines. Health and Human Rights Journal 24(1):121-123 Lasco, G. (2022). Decolonizing harm reduction. Harm Reduction Journal, 19(1):1-3. Lasco, G. et al. (2022). Child nutrition in times of crisis: A qualitative study in Siargao Island, Philippines. Acta Medica Philippina Lasco, G., & Yu, V. G. (2022). Pharmaceutical messianism and the COVID-19 pandemic. Social Science & Medicine, 114567. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114567 Mendoza, J., Lasco, G.. Renedo, A...D. Balabanova. (2022). (De)constructing ‘therapeutic itineraries’ of hypertension care: A qualitative study in the Philippines. Social Science & Medicine, 114567, 114570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114570 Seguin, M., Mendoza, J., Mallari, E., Lasco, G., Maever L Amit, A., Palileo-Villanueva, L. M., ... & Balabanova, D. (2022). Participant Use of Digital Diaries in Qualitative Research: A Strong Structuration Analysis. International Journal of Qualitative Methods 21: 16094069221124725. Lasco, G. & Yu, V. (2021). Medical populism and the politics of dengue epidemics in the Global South. Global Public Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2021.1965181 Tan, M. L. & G. Lasco. (2021). ‘Hawa’ and ‘resistensya’: Local health knowledge and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines. Anthropology & Medicine https://doi.org/ 10.1080/13648470.2021.1893980 Dee, E. C., Paguio, J. A., Yao, J. S., Lim, J., & Lasco, G. (2021). Asian minorities in Asian countries: intersecting disparities affecting minoritised groups. The Lancet Oncology, 22(9), e381. Lasco, G., & Yu, V. G. (2021). “Shabu is different”: Extrajudicial killings, death penalty, and ‘methamphetamine exceptionalism’ in the Philippines. International Journal of Drug Policy, 103168. Yu, V. G., Lasco, G., & David, C. C. (2021). Fear, mistrust, and vaccine hesitancy: Narratives of the dengue vaccine controversy in the Philippines. Vaccine. https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.vaccine.2021.07.051 Hedges, K. & Lasco, G. (2021). Medical populism and COVID-19 testing. Open Anthropology Research 1(1)73-86. Lasco, G., & Yu, V. G. (2021). Communicating COVID-19 vaccines: lessons from the dengue vaccine controversy in the Philippines. BMJ Global Health, 6(3), e005422.