Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD - France)

Post-Doc, Santé et Sociétés

Post-Doctoral resercher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement - UMI 233 TransVIHMI

Thesis Title: Anthropology of Medical Research in Rural Senegal

About

I am a Social Anthropologist, working at the « Institut de Recherche pour le Développement » (IRD) as a post-doctoral researcher. I am currently involved in a program called Memorial and Remains of Medical Research in Africa (MEREAF), in collaboration with European and North American historians and anthropologists.

http://mereaf.hypotheses.org/

My research interests focus on medical research in developing countries, ethical issues in biomedicine and anthropology. So far, I have mainly conducted research in Senegal (West Africa) on these topics. I am also interested in visual anthropology, ethnographic theories, and restitution initiatives.

My first interest in Human Science was in Psychology that I studied for two years. Then, I joined the field of Anthropology and worked in various non-western contexts (Africa, India, Mongolia) as well as in Europe (France) on social issues regarding access to primary health care, patient-doctor relations, and more broadly the application of international and national recommendations in the field of HIV/AIDS, Oncology and Clinical Trials.

The research program I am currently working in represents an opportunity for me to explore a new type of ethnography, in which I will use photographic portraits to collect ethnographic data and communicate on the theme of memory.

I am a member and the treasurer of the AMADES.

http://amades.hypotheses.org/