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); and Health, social change and communities (with Heather Gardner, Oxford University Press, 2003). She has also recently published books titled The journey of becoming a mother amongst women in northern Thailand (Lexington Books, 2007); and Reproduction, childbearing and motherhood: A cross-cultural perspective and Childrearing and infant care: A cross-cultural perspective (Nova Science, 2007). The most recent book that she published is Community, health and population (with Sansnee Jirojwong, Oxford University Press, 2008) and Infant feeding practices: A cross-cultural perspective (Springer 2010). She is now completing a book on Motherhood and Postnatal Depression: Narratives of Women and their Partners, for Springer (with Carolyn Westall), and will be published in early 2011.
