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Health Matters is a research group at the University of Vienna’s Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology.

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our topics & questions

Our work is situated at the intersection of Critical Medical Anthropology, Global / Public Health and Feminist Science and Technology Studies. We want to understand how health matters and how health is mattered.

Our topics range from the critical analysis of medicine, healing practices and notions of health, illness and disability, to collective forms of care, ethics, and morality. We are concerned about the wide-ranging intersectional inequalities that shape past and current biopolitics and embodied experiences. Our aim is thus to understand how the global economy, contentious politics, diverse forms of medicine, and technology shape human and more-than-human lives in postcolonial worlds.

We care about nurturing open academic spaces of collaboration, kindness, mutual understanding, creativity and joy. We strive to build environments of relatedness and solidarity which are driven by concerns for social and environmental justice.

With the present website, we aim to create a forum where we can enter in touch with students, scholars and activists in both Austria, Europe and the world at large.

people

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Janina Kehr

Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health

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Sofie Kronberger

PraeDoc
(University Assistant)

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Lucia Mair

PraeDoc
(University Assistant)

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Giorgio Brocco

Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer

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María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer

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Veronika Siegl

Senior Research Fellow

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Lisa Lehner

Postdoctoral Researcher & Co-PI for "Less is More"

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Miriam Schwaiger

Research Administration

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Julia Koroknai

Student Staff

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Sophie Wagner

PraeDoc / Research Fellow

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Laila Rajani

Visiting Fellow

Mara Köhler_©Mara Köhler

Mara Köhler

PhD Student

people

Portrait photo of J. Kehr in colour_©J. Kehr

Janina Kehr

Professor of Medical Anthropology and Global Health

Sofie Kronberger_©Sofie Kronberger

Sofie Kronberger

PraeDoc
(University Assistant)

Portrait photo of L. Mair in colour_©L. Mair

Lucia Mair

PraeDoc
(University Assistant)

Portrait photo of G. Brocco in colour_©G. Brocco

Giorgio Brocco

Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer

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María Fernanda Olarte-Sierra

Research Associate (PostDoc) / Lecturer

Portrait photo V. Siegl in black and white_©V. Siegl

Veronika Siegl

Senior Research Fellow

LisaLehner_lr_02©MarisaVranješ

Lisa Lehner

Postdoctoral Researcher & Co-PI for "Less is More"

miriam schwaiger_©Miriam Schwaiger

Miriam Schwaiger

Research Administration

Julia Koroknai_©Julia Koroknai

Julia Koroknai

Student Staff

Mara Köhler_©Mara Köhler

Mara Köhler

PhD Student

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Sophie Wagner

PraeDoc / Research Fellow

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Laila Rajani

Visiting Fellow

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