I currently work as an Associate Research Scholar in Princeton University’s Global Health Program. I use my multi-disciplinary training in social medicine, social studies of science and technology and anthropology to produce a nuanced critical perspective of how ideas of pathology, normality and health are conceptualized in contemporary science, and how such ideas are integrated into medicine, public health, and ethical debates.

With a PhD in Social Medicine, IMS/UERJ (The Institute for Social Medicine, State University of Rio de Janeiro), I am interested in looking more carefully into the use of diagnostic categories and of biotechnologies, especially pharmaceuticals, as treatment resources to adjust affects, relations and attention. MSc in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA/IFCS/UFRJ). BA in Journalism (PUC-Rio).

Other interests: learning, especially with humans and non-humans I feel affectively connected with (and therefore affected by). Movies, books / texts / words, notebooks, ideas, songs (and the stories behind them), dancing, writing, cats, dogs, folks and observing them, the ocean, the breeze, the dunes from the northeast of Brazil, and life as it unfolds. For me, life makes more sense when doing things together.