Dr Rosie Steege

Biography

Rosie Steege is a social scientist with expertise in gender, equity and intersectionality. She uses participatory methods within large multi-partner, multi-disciplinary research consortia.

 

Rosie is currently PI of CARE, a project aiming to co-develop a SRHR conceptual framework with climate affected adolescents in Bangladesh.

 

Rosie is also Equity Lead for GEAR up consortium, supporting mainstreaming of gender and equity into antimicrobial resistance surveillance, working across diverse country contexts. 

 

She was also a co-investigator on the £13 million Global Challenges Research Fund funded ARISE consortium supporting equity and accountability for residents of urban informal settlements in Bangladesh, India, Kenya and Sierra Leone.

 

Rosie is a confident facilitator and communicator. She has won awards for presentations at international conferences and published in journals such as the Lancet and Social Science and Medicine. She has also undertaken consultancies, including for the World Health Organisation and has previous experience in the private healthcare communications sector, where she managed accounts of up to $1million for an international global healthcare communications network.

Research interests

Rosie’s research uses participatory and qualitative methodologies focused on inclusive and gender transformative health systems in the context of global health threats such as antimicrobial resistance, climate change and urban informality and equity backlash.

She is passionate about nurturing equitable partnerships for community led development globally and has published on this topic. 

Teaching

Rosie has 15 years teaching experience. She leads the Global Health in Local Context module for the Global Health MSc at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine.

She supervises diverse PhD and MSc students aligned to her areas of research and is open to supervising new students.

Selected research publications

Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility: understanding implications for women’s children’s and adolescent’s health through layered policy analysis – Journal: Global Health Action – Published: 1st December 2025

Antimicrobial resistance, equity and justice in low- and middle-income countries: an intersectional critical interpretive synthesis – Journal: Nature Communications – Published: 13th October 2025

Who is at the table and who has the power? Case study analysis of decision-making processes for the Global Financing Facility in Tanzania – Journal: Global Health Action – Published: 5th September 2025

Addressing the near absence of formal governance in service provision: governance practices thriving in informal settlements – Journal: Discover Public Health – Published: 23rd July 2025

“The system brought beauty to our community”: Evaluating the impact of a physical address system in Mathare informal settlement, Nairobi, through ripple effect mapping – Journal: Journal of Community Systems for Health – Published: 23rd June 2025

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