I work at the intersection of academia and the non-governmental sector, focusing on global health (vaccination and pharmacovigilance) and climate change. Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, where I study vaccines, epidemiological practices, pharmacovigilance and intersectionality. As part of the NGO Bridge to Health USA, I am the co-pi of the project “Miltidimensional vulnerability to dengue and diarrea in Caballococha”, which is a transdisciplinarity research developed in collaboration with Organismo Andino de Salud Hipolito Henao and The Lancet Climate Change Countdown, with a seed grant of the Inter-American Institute.

Research methods

• Ethnography
• Patchwork ethnography
• Transdisciplinarity

Current research projects

• Unveiling Vaccine’s safety: pharmacovgilance and the monitoring of vaccine side effect
  This PhD project analyzes the system responsible for ensuring vaccine safety post-approval. Focusing on two case studies—the HPV vaccine in Colombia and COVID-19 vaccines in the EU—this research highlights tensions within evidence hierarchies, critically examining what and who may become invisible in the process of producing evidence on suspected side effects.