Laia Ventura Garcia
About
I am a medical anthropologist working in international and national research projects at the interface between health and social sciences. PhD in Anthropology and Communication, I have carried out ethnographic work on Chagas, Covid-19, cervical cancer and environmental toxicities. My research focuses on embodied knowledge, reproductive justice, biomedical cultures, crises and their articulation with social inequalities. I also explore auto-ethnographic, participatory, and arts-based methodologies, with a strong commitment to knowledge transfer and social impact. I have been a postdoctoral researcher in the CareNet group (IN3-UOC); UKRI Guarantee Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh, following a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship; as well as a visiting researcher at the Health Equity Institute of San Francisco State University.
Work
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
|Senior Lecturer
Spain
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University of Edinburgh
|UKRI Guarantee Fellow, following the award of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Fellowship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
|Adjunct Lecturer
Spain
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Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
|Postdoctoral Researcher
Spain
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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Facultat de Medicina
|Professora col.laboradora en el Programa de Formació de Postgrau MÀSTER EN SALUT INTERNACIONAL I COOPERACIÓ
Spain
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
|Personal Docente e Investigador en formación
Spain
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Centre de Recerca en Salut Internacional de Barcelona (CRESIB-IsGlobal))
|Researcher
Spain
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Universitat Rovira i Virgili
|Tècnica d'investigació
Spain
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Ajuntament de Calafell
|Professora
Spain
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Instituto Nacional de Salud
|Researcher
Guatemala
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Heliconia Soc.Coop.Mad.
|Tècnica
Spain
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Museo Nacional de Antropología
|Anthropologist
Spain
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Education
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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PhD
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Máster en Antropología Médica y Salud Internacional
Universitat de Barcelona
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Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural
Universitat de Barcelona
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Licenciada en Psicología