Profile

I explore how major diseases like cancer and infectious diseases shape healthcare systems and people's lives. My research focuses on how demographic changes and health policies, such as cancer diagnostics and vaccination, influence healthy individuals living with the expectation of illness. I also examine how citizens respond to vaccine side effects while navigating uncertainty in a healthcare system driven by technological changes and standardized solutions.

Teaching

I coordinate the Master’s Degree Programme in the Anthropology of Health and teach courses in medical anthropology as well as ethnographic and sociological methods. As a certified Carpentries instructor, I can provide live instruction in coding and data processing at a foundational level. I supervise both health professionals in the master’s programme and MA students in Anthropology and Human Security who focus on health and illness or combine qualitative and quantitative methods.

Job responsibilities

As Director of the Anthropology Research Programme, I support individual researchers as well as projects and enhance the integration staff at all levels in the research collective through talent development, individual mentoring, workshops, and the organization of staff seminars and conferences.