I am an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Lead Faculty for Global Health Equity and Social Medicine at the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda. I work at the intersection of global public health, social medicine, health professions education, and anthropology, with a particular interest in the social, political, institutional, and environmental determinants of population health and health inequalities.

I trained in social anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), where my doctoral research, supervised by Rita Astuti and Maurice Bloch, examined slavery, social exclusion, kinship, and identity in Madagascar. This anthropological background continues to shape my approach to global health.

I conduct research primarily in Rwanda and Madagascar, with additional interests in the Pacific Islands. My current work focuses on chronic disease care, physical activity transition, institutional change, and climate-related health vulnerability. I approach health and illness as emerging from various processes rather than as phenomena that can be explained at a single level. I am particularly interested in how political economy, livelihoods, social relations, and cultural understandings shape embodied experience, health outcomes and access to care in specific historical contexts. This perspective supports a methodologically plural approach, bringing ethnography and qualitative research into dialogue with epidemiological and other quantitative forms of evidence.

At UGHE, I teach Medical Anthropology and Social Medicine, Sociology, Global Health Equity, Health Policy and Political Economy, Critical Thinking and Scientific Reasoning, and Qualitative Research Methods. I have also held academic leadership responsibilities in departmental management, curriculum development, academic governance, and research.