Med Anthro
Anthropologists who study health, healing, or human biology in context
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@lancegravlee.bsky.social
@janinakehr.bsky.social
Medical Anthropoloy I Hospitals - Biomedicine - Austerity - More-than-human Public Health I Spectres, Slowness and Low-Tech | Medical Killjoy I Prof@Uni Vienna https://health-matters.univie.ac.at/
@mariamtokhi.bsky.social
Doctor, Writer, Narrative Medicine course lead at UniMelb. Loves poetry, essay, art, literary fiction and people who strive to make world around them softer, sillier, sweeter and more inclusive. Proud board member at https://thesocialstudio.org
@visualplague.bsky.social
Professor of Medical Anthropology (St Andrews) | Global War Against the Rat project, zoonoses, plague, medical anthropology, history of colonial medicine, animal studies & visual culture https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/social-anthropology/people/cl1
@nickrattray.bsky.social
spatial anthropologist of health and bodily differences, health services researcher / #ImpSci #DisAnthro #MedAnthro (https://x.com/nickrattray) :: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=MT5y-bMAAAAJ&hl=en
@rwhitacre.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist @UCSF @PHI #pharma #cannabis #HIV https://rwhitacre.com/
@barbwittmann.bsky.social
Jun.-Prof. European Ethnology @ Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg Homepage: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/euroethno/lehrstuhl/personen/wittmann/ Research interests: intangible heritage, gender & medicine (esp. womens health movement) and agro-food-studies
@asherrosinger.bsky.social
Human biologist | Associate professor @PennState Biobehavioral Health & Anthropology | Climate & health | If you like #water, you'll already like 62% of me | #UNC #UGA #CDCEIS Alum (he/him) https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c89wo3AAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
@almaionescu.bsky.social
PhD student in Global Health @UCL | critical mental health, activism, care, social justice
@gsodikoff.bsky.social
Medical and environmental anthropologist: zoonosis, extinction, multispecies ethnography, kinship, conservation, Madagascar. Rutgers University-Newark
@jencarroll.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist. Rig slinger. Drug/overdose research. Harm reduction collaborator. 🇺🇸/🇺🇦 Opinions my own. Русский военный корабль, иди нахуй.
@noracbridges.bsky.social
Applied Medical Anthropologist | Exploring stories and analyzing systems to advance health equity through qualitative research and evaluation (she/her)
@rcromer.bsky.social
anthropologist, advocate, artist | cultural, medical, science/tech, applied, feminist | REPRODUCTIVE POLITICS | she/her work: risacromer.net play: www.doctoringdobbs.com book: http://tinyurl.com/2p9bkbue
@danagfield.bsky.social
Peds Palliative Doc @MSKCC in NYC Recovering grad student. Undercover anthropologist. Muddling through. Figuring things out. Loves: a good cry, biking, long phone calls. (She/her) #pedsky #medsky #HAPC #medanthro #meded
@jennifershirsch.bsky.social
Writing a book. Doing the work. Loving my people. Making some pies. Skiing while there is still snow. Co-author (w Shamus Khan) of #SexualCitizens (@wwnorton)
@soullimani.bsky.social
phd-ing @university of cape town. doctoral research fellow @humauct.bsky.social | medical anthro. STS. algorithms. futures. ethics of care 💭 alternatives.
@mamatommy.bsky.social
Professor of Anthropology @Durham University. Interested in care, development, health, livelihoods, animals, epidemics, Africa...
@rehanameeajan.bsky.social
PhD Student @ UCL A lifecourse approach to maternal perinatal health, lactation, and cardiovascular disease. Institute of Epidemiology of Healthcare & UCL Anthropology (Soc-B CDT/ Med Anth) NHS GP 📍London
@bridgetmcgann.medsky.social
Bioanthropologist & curator of #LactFacts Doing: #LactSci & #SciComm @ #THRiVELab 🤱🏾 CU Denver grad student • Did: #MarchforScience crappy violinist • drochghaeilgeoir ☘️ Neurospicy 🌈🦋 • nuance, kindness, hope THRiVEdiscovery.ca
@abbeyepage.bsky.social
Lecturer CCE Brunel in working on all things on reproduction, childrearing, early childhood and social support. Thinks in evolutionary and other frameworks. Secretary of EHBEA. 🩷💜💙🩵
@kelizaw.bsky.social
Anthropologist writing about infectious disease afterlives, care, and disability worlds in Brazil + impacts of the US foreign aid freeze + maybe misophonia. Currently postdocking @dukeghi.bsky.social. Toddler mom.
@elijahjwatson.bsky.social
biosocial anthropologist/epidemiologist interested in biological aging, embodiment, climate & health, and biodemography | NIA F31 Fellow & PhD (anthro) / MPH (epi) candidate at Northwestern | Tar Heel https://ejwatson.github.io
@ericaborgstrom.bsky.social
Prof of Medical Anthropology, The Open University (UK) Researches death, palliative and end of life care. Co-editor for Death and Culture book series. Co-chair of Open Thanatology
@sarahszurek.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist. Program Director at NCI. Also here for food, travel, funnies, and cats. Views are my own.
@karinf.bsky.social
Cultural/medical anthropologist @WFU. Gender, human rights, global health, violence, development, community-organizing, chronic illness & NC politics. Latin America/Ecuador, US, Sweden. Author: The Prism of Human Rights. NGO: The Minga Foundation #pwME
@eyatesd.bsky.social
anthropology professor (sts, food justice, nuclear history). author of Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm, UC Press. she/her on sabbatical 2024-2025. 🌱🌱
@bermorenop.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist working on geographical imaginations and histories of #chagas disease in the United States. PhD student @UC Berkeley/ UCSF [previously UoEdinburgh, UNAM] Ethnography of science, landscapes, and health.
@jamesstaples.bsky.social
Anthropologist at Brunel University of London, co-host of The Migration Menu podcast (www.themigrationmenu.com), co-editor of the journal Medical Anthropology, and author of “Sacred Cows and Chicken Manchurian.”
@jameskgibb.bsky.social
Biological Anthropologist | LGBTQ+ Health Researcher | He/Him/His | PhD Candidate Northwestern | 🇨🇦🏳️🌈
@claudiamerli.bsky.social
Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic conversational therapist. She/Her. https://eirapsychotherapy.se
@sarahwillen.bsky.social
Time to figure this place out I guess. Professor of Anthropology | https://tinyurl.com/SSW-UConn Pandemic Journaling Project | https://tinyurl.com/PandemicJournaling ARCHES | https://arches.chip.uconn.edu Also: https://tinyurl.com/FightingforDignity
@beccaella.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist, fascinated/ horrified by the politics of reproduction, studying gender, science, and microbes (and capitalism), abortion community organizing, companioned by a husky named Colibri.
@noellesullivan.bsky.social
Director, Global Health Studies @ NorthwesternU, medical #anthropology, clinical #voluntourism, #health policy & health care in 🇹🇿🇺🇸, bike commuter, closet hippy, 🇨🇦 raised, still editing that memoir. https://noellesullivan.wordpress.com
@dafnushka.bsky.social
Assistant Prof UNC | medical anthropologist: global health, bureaucracies, humanitarianism | geek & sci fi fan 🖖 | 🦮 parent | a 🇺🇦 in 🇺🇸
@kswiley.bsky.social
Biological Anthropologist & Human Biologist. PhD. Assistant professor at UTEP using biosocial perspectives in research on stress, pregnancy, and maternal and child health disparities. 🏳️🌈 he/him
@nilikm.bsky.social
Family doctor | Trustee | medical #anthropology | #McGill | #UCL | #Yale | writer | #feminism | RxAdvocacy | Fulbright Scholar | Commonwealth Scholar | Jabapalooza | #WomenInMedicine | #Ottawa | #MedSky | personal account (she/her) 🇨🇦
@noahtamarkin.bsky.social
Author of: Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa Current research: Forensic genetics and carcerality Trans Health Assoc Prof Cornell Anthropology and STS Research associate, WISER, South Africa
@mrvanderheijden.bsky.social
Contains multitudes. Global health lawyer. Anthropologist in training. PhD candidate at LSHTM researching future-making in access to medicines. 🌍💊 Consultant at WHO + FAO, ex-MSF
@ddroney.bsky.social
Cultural & medical anthropologist working in postcolonial science studies.
@resourcefulsqrl.bsky.social
Asst Prof. Anthropologist & engineer. Celiac. Feminist. Studies bone health, physical activity, & menses. she/her
@cinziag.bsky.social
Medical Anthropology& Humanities, Research Fellow, Univ of Manchester, CHSTM | Medical uncertainty| Autism| Gender (https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/cinzia.greco) Editor Anthropologie&Santé (https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/)
@hdilger.bsky.social
Social and Cultural Anthropologist @FU_Berlin, Director of Collaborative Research Centre "Affective Societies", Head of Research Area Medical Anthropology | Global Health, Co-speaker of @DFG Network "Public Anthropology" & Co-PI @MoRePPaR
@dianetober.bsky.social
Anthropologist, Professor, author, filmmaker, examining reproductive technologies and body commodification. Author of Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them.
@adampjohnson.bsky.social
Anthropologist: environmental, human-wildlife relations, science studies, primatology, infectious disease.
@janitavandyk.bsky.social
PhD Candidate in Anthropology and Food Studies, UofT | Reviews Editor, Gastronomica | Food, agriculture, time in Italy
@amycooper.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist, professor and author. I’m writing a book about biomedicine’s colonial legacy for @ucpress. My other book: State of Health: Pleasure and Politics in Venezuelan Health Care Under Chávez.
@anthrobite.bsky.social
Anthropologist of science, health & the environment in an unequal 🌍 | thinks a lot about Brasil & bugs 🦟 🦠 Assistant Prof at the University of Southern California; before MIT, Maastricht Univ, UFMG In a love-hate relationship with Los Angeles – ela/she
@siobhancully.bsky.social
Anthropologist at #Rutgers studying disability, health, gender, inequality, evolution. Former program officer at #NSF. Mom, #DisabledinSTEM, musician. Passionate about #STEM #equity and #inclusion. Repost != endorsement. Views mine.
@heavyredaction.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist, Assoc. Prof. at SFSU. EIC at @jvietnamstudies.bsky.social. Studying online health influencers. “In the dark times/Will there also be singing?”—Bertolt Brecht
@anthrolactology.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist. Biocultural lactation, human rights, bioethics, global health equity. Climate & Reproductive Justice. Novice Thai herbalist. she/they. Personal account.
@ievajusionyte.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Writer. Professor at Brown University. Author of THRESHOLD (2018) and EXIT WOUNDS (2024)
@drtomori.bsky.social
🇭🇺🇺🇸 Anthropologist/Public Health Prof breastfeeding, lactation, MNCH, reproduction, public health, health policy, equity, justice 🤱🏾🤱🏽🤱 posts - my own. https://nursing.jhu.edu/faculty-research/faculty/directory/cecilia-tomori/
@rahallclifford.bsky.social
Global health, medical anthropology, co-design for health equity. @Emory U, working in Guatemala and beyond. Loves sightings of the absurd and compassion.
@liabetti.bsky.social
Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at UCL. Research interests in human diversity, health inequalities, bioarchaeology, and the evolution of the pelvis and childbirth.
@drhollyhds.bsky.social
Anthropologist @USouthFlorida, @UVA Ph.D., Ed.board @SocSciMed. Reproduction & #ReproJustice, South Asia, demography, feminisms, infertility, #MedHum. My views. http://linktr.ee/drhollyhds
@daisydeomampo.bsky.social
Medical and cultural anthropologist // Author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India // Associate Professor @ Fordham University
@tessamuldvarp.bsky.social
Anthropologist on reprotech, postgenomics and race in South Africa; rock climber; Texpat. Postdoc @WitsUniversity Views are my own. She/her/y'all
@luguerra.bsky.social
She/Ella, medical anthropologist, public health, peruana 🇵🇪🇵🇪, twin mom, kinda baker, trying to find joy. Birthcare, contraceptive decision making, access to SRH care, health equity, repro justice.
@drkimsue.bsky.social
Addiction medicine/primary care doctor + medical anthropology at Yale University School of Medicine. Previously at Rikers and National Harm Reduction Coalition. Author of Getting Wrecked: Women, Incarceration, and the American Opioid Crisis. Drkimsue.com
@dtpowis.bsky.social
Living in Tampa or Dakar. Medical Anthropologist of/in Public Health. www.dickpowis.com / kuznitsa.media
@catherinetrundle.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist @ La Trobe University Public Health, climate justice and heat stress, nuclear afterlives, contested illness, ethnographic methods, poetry
@timothyyloh.com
anthropologist of science and tech in the Princeton Society of Fellows, PhD from MIT in HASTS (History, Anthropology, STS), research on assistive tech for deaf people in Jordan, MENA, and Singapore. he/他/هو www.timothyyloh.com.
@mw-m.bsky.social
disability & the American family - design & the biology of everyday life - theory for the world to come - anthropologist, americanist, polemicist -(he/him)
@seanbruna.bsky.social
Former Senior Advisor at AHRQ/HHS. Professor of Medical Anthropology dedicated to improving patient safety & patient experience. From El Paso/Juarez.
@thaoeatworld.bsky.social
🇰🇭 🇻🇳 🏳️🌈 🌱🍲🧶🛼✨ 👩🏻🔬transdisciplinary researcher 🎙️occasional podcaster 🗺️perpetual explorer 📚visiting scholar @ portland state uni 🖋️thaoeatworld.com ✨ #globalhealth #medanthro #food #ethnobotany #STS #rollerskating
@adriennestrong.bsky.social
Associate Prof at UF🐊 medical anthropologist working on care, maternal health, and pain care in Tanzania.
@bioanthmags.bsky.social
Biocultural anthropologist studying the intersections of lactation & perinatal mental health Postdoc @ UIC’s Center of Excellence in Maternal and Child Health 📍Chicago || she/hers || ☕️📚🌲🏋🏻♀️🐱
@emmalouisebacke.bsky.social
Anthropologist working on the politics of care for survivors of gender-based violence / Managing Editor of The Geek Anthropologist / feminist killjoy
@suscrockford.bsky.social
author/Ripples of the Universe (2021) | environmental and medical anthropology with a side of religion | lecturer @ University of Exeter | views my own
@robingnelson.bsky.social
Biocultural Bio Anthropologist at SHESC ASU; studying familial & community dynamics, child growth, health outcomes across the lifespan, & parental investment; parent to 2; happy introvert; loves exercise; NJ ---> AZ
@mammalssuck.bsky.social
EvAnth, EvMed, & Global Health I study mothers, milk, & babies Associate Prof at ASU Cheddar Superfan. "Scarier than a badger" Opinions my own
@drvicmcgowan.bsky.social
Medical anthropologist @newcastleuni.bsky.social research focuses on health equity, social justice, community involvement, and coastal towns. Talk too much about my dog! Can also be found posting photos from fieldwork on Instagram @north_southdivide
@ekochky.bsky.social
Anthropologist, feminist science and technology studies, plants, microbes, soil & health. Pets are family.
@awutich.bsky.social
MacArthur Fellow. Anthropologist. Regents & President’s Professor. Director, ASU Center for Global Health & NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program. Editor, Field Methods. Proud co-founder of the AAG WISE (Water Insecurity) Research Community. Own Views
@sprall.bsky.social
Anthropologist at UCLA Health, reproduction, vaccination, mistrust sprall.github.io
@edhagen.net
Professor of Anthropology at Washington State University. Evolutionary medicine with a focus on drug use and mental health. Evolutionary psychology. Faculty page: https://anthro.vancouver.wsu.edu/people/hagen/
@jjosh1313.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 | Dad (to human & dog) | Professor at the University of Oregon w/ research and teaching in biological anthropology, human biology, & global health | Community outreach work in Eugene, OR including the Homelessness Policy and Health Project
@drteresa-winst.bsky.social
Applied anthropologist, former Assoc prof, now Sr Res Scientist in PNW Med Sch. Focused on healthcare as a human rt & harm reduction ❤️🔥 & sovereignty for indigenous people (& loves dogs & dessert, but not dogs for dessert). Opinions mine, of freaking course
@sarahwilliams.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Medical Anthropology @ UConn. Hiker, forager, keeper of cats. Research on repro & perinatal health, repro justice, and queer health in Mexico and Canada.
@allergyphd.bsky.social
STS and Medical Anthropology, cyborgs, care, feminist theories of tech, faculty NYU Tandon, BISR faculty, she/her CYBORG: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547550/cyborg/ Food Allergy Advocacy: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517910563/food-allergy-advoca
@ehemmott.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Biological Anthropology, bringing Evolution to Public Health. Director of Education at UCL Anthropology. Profile: https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30051
@emendenhall.bsky.social
Professor, Georgetown SFS, medical anthropologist & guggenheim fellow, writer, editor, mom Preorder my new book! Invisible Illness, https://www.ucpress.edu/books/invisible-illness/hardcover
@roslynmalcolm.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology (@DurhamU) thinking about bodies, minds, hormones, environments, more-than-human sociality. She/her Profile: scholar.google.com/citations?user=liDxrvsAAAAJ&hl=en
@anthroetc.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Bioanthropology at UoA in Aotearoa/NZ. Infectious disease and epidemics; disability; history and memory.
@juliespray.bsky.social
Childhood & medical anthropologist, child health researcher, Lecturer at University of Galway Ireland, Pākehā New Zealander, she/her, never enough cats. I study people because they fascinate & confuse me. Children make most sense though. We like to draw.
@emilijaz.bsky.social
Anthropologist: kinship, care, reproductive health, chronicity, India, urban poverty. Durham University
@anikakoenig.bsky.social
Anthropologist, researching reproductive technologies, endometriosis, STS, gender, violence, other stuff @FU_Berlin. #sociologus Journal for Social Anthropology #academicsky
@ericshattuck.bsky.social
Biological anthropologist working to understand what people do when they're sick and why. Assistant Professor at FSU www.ericshattuck.com
@jeanhunleth.bsky.social
Anthropologist with too many interests and not enough time. Mostly I study caregiving, illness, and childhood | Arts-based methods | Author of Children as Caregivers | Associate professor at wustl
@patrickclarkin.bsky.social
He/him UMass Boston biological anthropologist. Ph.D. War and health, growth, embodiment, DOHaD, refugees, baseball. ⚾️ Binghamton grad. Child of PVD. kevishere.com
@janbrunson.bsky.social
Medical Anthropologist | Fulbright Scholar in Nepal | Editing @ SS&M | Studying discourses on maternal health & population in global souths | Nepal | views do not represent employer janbrunsonphd.com
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: http://goo.gl/fZalMo
@kateclancy.bsky.social
Feminist science professor at the University of Illinois. Obsessed with the uterus, even when it's being shitty. Author of PERIOD: The Real Story of Menstruation, now out on paperback. Up next: PREGNANCY, INTERRUPTED. White, settler, queer. 🍉
@disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Historian, occasional anthropologist, working on disability, race and Empire; histories of public health. Eternal immigrant, writer, teacher. Indifferent cook. There will be many dogs on this feed. Luddite, yes, in the best way. Lives with epilepsy.
@lancegravlee.bsky.social
Anthropologist and pilot. Former professor at U Florida, now flying for a US-based global airline. Still have some writing to do (racism and health, research methods, aeromobilities). 📝 https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yeAwZhIAAAAJ&hl=en